...attended with the unction of the Holy Ghost, we are sure good is being done ; for Jehovah hath said, " He loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." Mr. Heap has taken for his text, Revelations xiv. C. " And I saw another angel fly in the midst of...

...embodies the feeling we have sought to express. " His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. I will make mention of Rahab, and Babylon, to them that know...

...greatly that ye shall never enter within her walls. " His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. I will make mention of Ruhab, and Babylon, to them that know me ; behold...

...consequent to it." A psalm of the sons of Korah. 1 HER foundations are upon the holy mountains ; 3 Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion, More than all the dwellings of Jacob. Q 3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God ! 4 " I name Egypt and Babylon amongst my worshippers...

...the land of Palestine, and the city of Jerusalem, of which the Psalmist says, Ps. 87. 2. ' The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.' " But the most interesting conquest," says the historian, " of the Seljukian Turks, was that of Jerusalem,...

...abhorred ;" yet he went to bear his testimony to public ordinances ; " For still," says he, " the Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob; and so do I." Such, then, were his sentiments of things, expecting that God would yet open a door of...

...less power, in the exercises of private religion, than in the service of the sanctuary. For the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Next to the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the word is our Redeemer's principal ascensiongift ; a standing...

...Moriah, on which the temple was built) ; as in Psalm Ixxxvii. 2, where it is stated that " the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." The temple and the courts are called Zion, (Psalm Ixv. 1 ; Ixxxiv. 7 ; Isaiah ii. 3, &c.) ; or, by...

...complacency God doth differently take in the solemnities of his own worship, (psalm, 87. ^.) " The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob." He is more honoured and glorified by the public solemnities of worship ; and therefore doth take more...

...house of prayer that God pours out more abundantly upon men the blessings of grace and peace : " He loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." Thousands and millions of afflicted souls have found in God's house such discoveries of his love, and...