...God calls after them; " Return, thou backsliding Israel; for I am married unto you, saith the Lord. And I will take you, one of a city and two of a family, and will bring you to Zion. "In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel ; and...

...himself. Jer. iii. 14, 15. ' Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord ; for I am married unto you, and will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and will bring you unto Zion : and I will give you pastors according unto mine heart, which shall feed...

...shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.' When shall that be ? ' When,' saith he, ' I shall take you, one of a city and two of a family, and bring you to Zion,' as it is said in ver. 14. Or, when I shall call you by the gospel, then I will...

...even in gospel times is that promise respecting the return of the scattered Jews." Jer. iii. 14. " I will take you one of a city and two of a family and bring you to Zion." In like manner when the Roman eagles were just about to pounce upon the Jews as...

...for I am married unto you." It speaks of their gradual restoration to their long-lost privileges: " I will take you " one of a city, and two of a family, and I will " bring you to Zion." It tells them of better teachers of the better way : " and I will give " you pastors according to mine...

...Turn, O bncksliding children, saith the Lord: for my Spirit is united or married unto your souls : and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family: and my commandments shall bring your souls to the religious spirit Zion. 17. At that time, or dogree of...

...greatest magnitude. Such passages as the following are at once encouraging and familiar to his thoughts. " I will take you one of a city and two of a tribe, and I will bring you to Zion," — after doing this, it follows, " And I will give you pastors...

...greatest magnitude. Such passages as the following are at once encouraging and familiar to his thoughts. " I will take you one of a city and two of a tribe, and I will bring you to Zion," — after doing this, it follows, " And I will give you pastors...

...If thou art but one amongst many which desire it, and fearest fhou shalt be left among them, apply, "I will take you one of a city, and two of a tribe. b" Though thou art but one of a city that returneth to the Lord, he will bring thee to Zion...

...efficacy and success of the invitation resembles rather the prophetic declaration of Jeremiah —' I will ' take you, one of a city, and two of a family ; ' and I will bring you to Zion ; and I will 1 give you pastors according to mine heart, ' who shall feed you with knowledge and ' understanding.'...