...hovered around him, like a ministering angel. In the words of the prophet, he might have said, " I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness to a land not sown." He would fain have hidden from himself her visible decline. Yet, day after day,...

...come now and take thine own !' God will accept you : his arms and bosom are open to receive you. ' I remember thee . the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when the first fruits were holiness unto the Lord. If you would enjoy a happy life of communion with God,...

...Gof cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I remember the kindness of thy youth, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was (then) holiness unto the Lord and the first fruits of his increase. • Chapter...

...LORD came to me, saying, 2 _LV-L Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD ; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown ; / remember thy obedience and subjection, when thou wast first formed into a people,...

...days of Joshua, as it has been in the Christian church. Thus God addresses the church : " I remember the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, &c." t^tiest. 7. But supposing the covenant of Abraham to be the covenant of grace, and of perpetual...

...to Jeremiah, Jeremiah ii. 2. " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord ; all that devour him shall offend ; evil shall come...

...earliest days, and would have them- to know how pleasant and acceptable they were to him. " Thussailh the Lord, 1 remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou weiitest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord,...

...but how cutting is it to read, " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the .Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that .was not sown. Ah ! my people have .committed two evils : they have forsaken me, the fountain of living...

...appears by many things said in scripture about them ; as, particularly, Jer. ii. 2, 3, « I.re-i member thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine...wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown, Israel was holiness to the Lord, and the first fruits of his increase.'* Here the generation...

...pillar of iron, or walls of brass, &c. II. 2 Thus saith the LORD ; I remember thee, the kindness at" thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. II. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firsffru Its of his increase: all that...