...world, except in that one city, over which He, iook up his deep lament, and said, " Oh ! that thou hadst known, in this thy day, the things that 'belong to thy peace!" It is iaid, that here are 700,000 persons — a third of the entire population — living in the habitual...

...them over Jerusalem hopelessly self-surrendered to destruction, "0 that thou hadst knovm, even thou, in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes !" His case is one which, it is to be feared, is paralleled in the history of many...

...peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." " 0 that thou hadst known, iu this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ; but now they are hidden from thine eyes." Passages of this description are very numerous in the Bible ; and how are...

...hadst known," Jesus exclaimed, with accents of unutterable sorrow, "if thou hadst known, even thou, in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes." He foresaw the terrible destruction which would chastise this obstinate unbelief;...

...when he drew near to the city, he wept over it, and said, " If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ; but now they are hid from thine eyes !" On another occasion, he thus bewailed while he rebuked the doomed capibal, " 0 Jerusalem,...

...ruin which was about to overtake it. "O that thou hadst known," he exclaimed, " even thou, at least in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ! But now they are hidden from thine eyes." As this remarkable assemblage drew near, it is no wonder that, as Matthew...

...not hear Him as if thus addressing some such scorner of mercy ? — ' If thou — even thou — hadst known in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace. Guilty one ! if thou hadst listened to sacred parental counsels — if thou hadst carried into the...

...so near them and grace rejected only made the Saviour's tears flow faster. " Would that thou hadst known, in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ! " And you may have even some interest about the Saviour. Under some erroneous impression, or on a...

...wept. " When He beheld the city (Jerusalem) He wept over it (and said), If thou hadst known, at least in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes." And He felt all the pity which His tears and His words expressed ; but that pity...

...was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things that belong to thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes." Come then, my brethren, let us carefully contemplate the conduct and expressions...