...seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children shall forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; if...and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail\ And they shall...

...His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of Heaverf. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, if they break my statutes and keep not my conjmandnient?^ then will I visit their iniquity with the rod, and their transgression with stripes....

...RF.VEREND DEAR FATHER, I! liHOLD, he taketh away. What hath he taken away? His loving-kindness? — No. "My loving-kindness will I "not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to "fail." Wife and friend, son and daughter, to take these, is the right of his throne; he gave all, and excepting...

...disobedience. The promise of the God of Israel accompanied the denunciation of his anger : "I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes ; nevertheless, my loving kindness will 1 not utterly take from him, nor cause my faithfulness to fail." In these passages,...

...righteousness as the waves of the sea!" He has also said, " If his children forsake my law, and walk not in iny judgments ; if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes." But О the heart-melting nature of that...

...my commandments ; 32 Then will I visit their transgression 'th the rod, and their iniquity with 33 Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly...take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. 35 Once have I sworn...

...His seed also will I make to endure for ever. And his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my statutes, and keep not my ordinances . . . then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes....

...forsake my law ^^ CHILDREN and walk not in my judgments if they break my statutes ^^ BREAK^TATUTES and keep not my commandments then will I visit their transgression with the rod ™,««,,T,»i,r , , ."' JUDGMENT and their iniquity with stripes. Yet my mercy will I not utterly...

...hostile and exterminating anger, but paternal and medicinal anger. "considerable; to be considered. not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail, my Covenant will I not break," &c.26 Afflictions are not only mercies, but Covenant- mercies. Therefore David saith, Psalm 1 19:75...

...says, For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you (Lev. 16:30); a third verse says, Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes (Ps. 89:33); and a fourth verse says, Surely this iniquity shall not be expiated by you till...