...backsliding being healed : " Behold, we come unto thee ; for thou art the Lord our God," Hos. xiv. 4. " O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity." Here the first words of the Lord's message to his spirituul Israel, are, that " the Lord was their...

...For this may you often bend the knee, and oftener lift up your heart. Take with you words and turn to the LORD : say unto him, " take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously. Wash us, and we shall be whiter than snow. Create in us a clean heart, O God : and renew a right spirit...

...only as a motive, to excite us to make use of our privilege of free access unto him, Hos. xiv. 1. " O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity." Q. 33. Have not some been under deep legal convictions, and yet never effectually called' A. Yes: Judas...

...repentings are kindled together." " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help !" " O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity." And no sooner doth he perceive the workings of repentance, which he himself hath wrought in the hearts...

...he might have said, " Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." But hear his affecting address. " O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity." And then, hear O ye heavens, and be astonished, O earth ! in connexion with this announcement of their...

...wilderness to Israel, a land of darkness ? Wherefore say my people, we will continue no more with thee ? O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity. Return, thou backsliding daughter, and I will not cause my anger to fall upon you, for...

...speaks to us both in his judgment and in his word, to which it were •well that we should hearken: " O Israel return unto the Lord thy God ; for thou hast fallen by thy iniquity." The only strife in which jt is lawful for us to engage, is the strife against our corruptions....

...for a yet more explicit declaration, in favour of forms of prayer, addressed to all the people; ' 0 Israel, return unto the Lord thy God ; for thou hast...fallen by thine iniquity. TAKE WITH YOU WORDS, and turn to the Lord ; say unto him, take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously : so will we render the...

...shall be ripped up. BC 723.* HOSEA, xiv. An exhortation to reptntance. A promise of God's blessing. 1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God ; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. 2 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD : say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us...

...repentings are kindled together. I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I God and not man. And again, O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely. The epistles to the churches of Asia contain...