...things; to whom be glory. We love him, because he first loved us. I am sought of them that asked not ior me ; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was called by my name." The progress is equally from the same source. He who quickens us, when dead in...

....> ISAIAH, Lxv. The Gentiles called. The Jews rejected: the biased state of the new Jerusalem. 1 I am sought of them that asked not for me ; I am found...me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was...

...sons of the living Godq." But the Prophet Isaiah points directly to the Gentiles, when he says, " 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 say he points to the Gentiles there ; for he immediately contrasts with them the state of his own...

...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...