...being ingrafted into this stock, they yield the pleasant fruits of righteousness. " If his children break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their iniquity with the rod, and their sins with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly...

...will not suffer them to perish utterly, Ps. 89. 30 — 34. " If his children forsake my law, airfl walk not in my judgments ; if they break my statutes,...stripes. Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from Him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." These words, with the greater part of the...

...Covenant of Grace, or more properly, perhaps, of the Covenant of Redemption, speaking of Christ, God says, If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, then will I visit their transgression with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless, my...

...transferred from earth to heaven, and rendered coeval with those eternal mansions of the blessed. 30. ' If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;' 31. 'If they break,' or profane, ' my statutes, and keep not my commandments;' 32. 'Then will I visit...

...and I will be his father.' He, that foresaw his sin, threatened and limited his correction; ' If he break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit his transgression with a rod, and his iniquity with stripes; nevertheless, my loving kindness will...

...provoke him greatly to correct you, but they shall never provoke Christ to give you a bill of divorce. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my...iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving kindness willl not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail, Psal. Ixxxix. 30 — 34. That...

...fast with him. 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...keep not my commandments : Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless, my loving kindness I will...

...perverse judgments. Therefore, the sceptre of uprightness is called the sceptre of His Kingdom. 'And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, I will visit their iniquities with a rod.'67 Do> you see the just judgment of God? He does not make...

...deserved to suffer for such a conduct? Even the divine word hath foretold us what we might expect, — 'if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, I will visit their offenses with the rod, and their sin with scourges.' These things had been denounced...

...14), from which we learn that death brings forgiveness. And still another scriptural passage says: "Then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes" (Ps. 89:33), from which we learn that chastisements bring forgiveness. How are all these four...