...before him: and mall fet us in the way of hij fteps. (87) TTER foundations are upon ITT the holy hills : The 'LoRD loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious thing* are fpoken of thee : O city of God. Selah. I will make mention of Rabat and Babylon...

...Chriftians are taught, that " the " power and glory of the Lord are to be feen " in the fanctuary. He loveth the gates of " Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." Thither adoring tribes have gone up to meet him, and he hath not fent them empty away. Thus faid David,...

...the order of private families to the order of the great family of heaven, the church of Chrift ? ' The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more * than all the dwellings of Jacob.' The order of families is without doubt of great importance; but the filence of fcripture refpeding the...

...cheer, thy fns be forgiven thee — 289 DISCOURSE XV. On the Twenty-ninth of May. PSALM Ixxxvii. 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob — 311 Preached before the Univerfity of Oxford, at St. Mary's, May 29, 1760. DISCOURSE XVI. The Woman...

...confpire to promote the felicity of his chofen, who governs the univerfe as head of his church, who loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob ! It mall be my endeavour, in the following difcourfe, to fet before you a fuccinct view of the divine...

...mall be faid, This man was born in her : and the Higheft himfelf fhall eftablifh her. The Lord fhall count, when he writeth up the people, That this man was born there." May our names be written in the Lamb's book of life, among the living In Jerufalem ! The introduction...

...'* Of Zion it fhall be faid, This man and that man was born in her.'' And ver. 6. " The Lord fhall count when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there." The church is the mother that bare them ; for, " Jerufalem, which is from above, is the mother of as...

...expeft more fruits and influences from tliem than from all private gifts and helps in the world : " For the " Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Ja" cob," P-.alm Ixxxvii. 2. And all private helps may fay, in conip.irifon of Chritl's public ordinances,...

...together in bis name, cur Lord hath told us that be is in the midjt of them*. God hath f aid that he loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob f. 'fhe prayer of the upright is his delight. Both in their temporal and fpiritual concerns, they may...

...or three are gathered together in my " name, there am I in the midft of them."" Pfal. Ixxxvii. 2. " The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than " all the dwellings of Jacob." And doth not the experience of every one of thofe who love the habitation of God's houfe, and the place...