...bring the blind,—and who are the blind ? The Gentiles, sinners, such as we all are or have been. / am found of them that sought me not, I said, Behold...me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not...

...choose not him, but he chooseth us; "He loved us first," 1 John 4:19. I am found of them that sought mo [^ z% H v= LM % J} V 4TM Q j TPǢ H 5 ֥ pr ( [ 3.u Isa. 65:1. 2. In that there is nothing in us, to draw God into a covenant with us. Many a man seeks...

...come from far; and lo, these from the north, and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim. 31 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found...me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people ; and they shall say, Thou art my God....

...without ever seeking for it; the language of the prophet Isaiah may be taken up respecting them, " I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not; I said to them, Behold me, behold me." While it is written that " every one that seeketh findeth," it is also...

...It is thus with all of us in the first communication of grace to the soul: as the prophet says, " I am sought of them that asked not for me ; I am found of them that sought me not." I do not say, that, when grace is imparted to the soul, we shall not pray : for we certainly shall wait...

...become, in consequence of its too long continuance, altogether intolerable. The prophet thus writes : " I am sought of them that asked not for me. I am found...me, unto a nation that was not called by my name." Isaiah uses the past tense instead of the future, to point out the certainty of the event. I know some...

...of Christ, according to what is written, " We love him because he first loved us :" and again, " I am sought of them that asked not for me ; I am found of them that sought me not." (Isaiah, Ixv., 1.) On the 16th of December, the visiters from the chateau found poor Le Fevre greatly...

...God, his eye rested in compassion upon them. " I am found of them that sought me not; I said, hehold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name," is language which was first used with reference to the calling of the Gentiles, but which might be...

...destroy the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 0 I am sought of them that asked not for me ; I am found...me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. d It shall come to pass, in the last days," say both Isaiah and Micah in the same words, " that the...

...Septuagint version of the passage, merely transposing the clauses. The sense is accurately expressed. ' I am sought of them that asked not for me, I am found of them that sought me not,' is the literal version of the Hebrew, as given in our translation. The apostle quotes and applies the...