...with an everlasting lore, therefore with loving- kindness have I drawn thee." — Jer. xxxi. 3. "Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold,...unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine." — Ezek. xvi. 8. "No man can come unto me except the Father draw him." —...

...death, is continually set forth under the symbol of a garment. Thou wast naked and bare ; I passed by, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with...

...affirm, John vi. 45; and to the manifestation of this love to the soul let us turn our attention. " Now when I passed by thee and looked upon thee, behold thy time was the time of love." The love of Jehovah being in its rise dateless, no beginning can ever be traced, Psalm ciii. 17; but...

...with an everlasting love, therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." — Jer. xxxi. 3. "Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold,...unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine." — Ezek. xvi. 8. " No man can come unto me except the Father draw him." —...

...lost state as sinners, our need of a Saviour, and the exact adaptation of Jesus to us. august 4. ^yHEN I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love. — Ezek. xvi. 8. Lord, 'twas a time of wondrous love, When thou didst first draw near my soul, And...

...neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee ; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine." Here the man mismade in his birth-day was new made ; mismade after the image of fallen Adam, new made...

...that never touched him before, but now streams over him in union with Christ : Ezek. xvi. 8, 9, " Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold,...into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thon becamest mine. Then washed I thee with water ; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee,...

...thee, when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, Live. Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love." If you have obtained a saving sight of Christ already, it is well. To many, even when they do see him...

...Lord," 2 Cor. iii. 18. And it stands in the same relation to God's becoming our God, Ezek. xvi. 8, " I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with...thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine." Ver. 9, " Then washed I thee with water : yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and anointed...

...not swaddled at all, nor salted at all. No eye pitied thee to do any of these things unto thee ; but when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold thy time was a time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness ; yea, and I sware unto...