...or hovered around him, like a ministering angel. In the words of the prophet, he might have said, " I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness to a land not sown." He would fain have hidden from himself her visible decline. Yet, day after day,...

...interruptions of it. But God does complain of his people for their estrangements from him. " Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals. What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me ?" Jer. 2 : 2, 5. As if...

...? Oh Britons and Protestants ! I remember, saith the Lord, the days of your youth, " when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. You were then holiness to me, and the first fruits of my increase." I brought you forth into this remote...

...word of the LORD came to me, srfying, 2 J.VJL Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD ; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth,...me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown ; I remember thy obeditnce and subjection, when thou tuast first formed into a people, and entered...

...days of Joshua, as it has been in the Christian church. Thus God addresses the church : " I remember the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, &c." t^tiest. 7. But supposing the covenant of Abraham to be the covenant of grace, and of perpetual...

...direction given to Jeremiah, Jeremiah ii. 2. " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth,...wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord ; all that devour him shall offend ; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord." What...

...and would have them- to know how pleasant and acceptable they were to him. " Thussailh the Lord, 1 remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou weiitest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord,...

...sacred volume, but how cutting is it to read, " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the .Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth,...me in the wilderness, in a land that .was not sown. Ah ! my people have .committed two evils : they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and...

...pillar of iron, or walls of brass, &c. II. 2 Thus saith the LORD ; I remember thee, the kindness at" thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. II. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firsffru Its of his increase: all that devour him...

...walled city ; more firm than a pillar of iron, or walls of brass, &c. II. 2 Thus saith the LORD ; / remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me m the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. II. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits...