To know if they are flourishing indeed— Searcher of spirits! canst make known the state, And thus engaged-thus busy in thy cause, Refreshed more largely! (r) Wilt not thou, O Lord, When fruits once rare, and but by strict research (m) 2 Tim. ii. 16, 17; iv. 4. (0) Ezek. xxxiii. 31, 32; 1 John ii. 19. (q) 1 John iii. 24. (2) Prov. xi. 25. H (n) 2 Cor. ii. 11. Their goings forth to cultivate or sow: (t) The Cross triumphant, and the serpent foiled- (t) Is. xxxii. 20. (u) Is. lxiii. 7. (w) Ephes. ii. 7. "BOTH He that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren." -HEBREWS II. 11. "The Lord will have mercy upon Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land."-ISAIAH XIV. 1. "Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness?"-ROMANS XI. 11. MEDITATIONS. CHAPTER VIII. VER. 1.-"O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without I should kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.” How solemn, how terrific, was the scene (x) We die we perish! (2)—we must be consumed, (x) Ex. xix. 16-18. (y) Ex. xx. 18, 19. |