...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,...

...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...

...LORD came to me, saying, 2 _LV-L Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD ; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown ; / remember thy obedience and subjection, when thou wast first formed into a people, and entered into...

...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...

...God at mount Sinai, when thoufolloiv3 ed»t the cloud, and attendedst the service of the tabernacle* Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the first fruits of his increase ; like the first fruits, they are peculiarly -valuable in his •'tight : all that devour him shall...

...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, the love...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 equally express...

...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,...

...appears by many things said in scripture about them ; as, particularly, Jer. ii. 2, 3, « I.re-i member thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine...wilderness, in a land that was not sown, Israel was holiness to the Lord, and the first fruits of his increase.'* Here the generation that went after God in the...

...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, the love...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...