...his Spirit, our afflictions are fandlified to fubdue and purge out our corruptions. "By this (hall the " iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away fin," Ifa. xxvii. 9. Now, if a man be inftru&ed in the ends and detigns of the rod, refrefhed and comforted...

...blood to his patients ; they are his phyfic to purge away their fins, Ifa. xxvii. 9. " By this fhall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away their fm. So that believers, inftead of murmuring, ought to blefs God for their afflictions, feeing...

...he receives. — By this," faith the Prophet Ifaiah, fpeaking of affliction, " fhall the ini*' quity of Jacob be purged, and this is all " the fruit to take away fin." David could fay, " It is good for me that I have been af" fiicted that I might learn thy ftatutes....

...say more ? tlie time would fail to instance in other graces, love, fear, holiness, &c. By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his sin. Grace is never more grace than when besieged with temptations. The battle draws forth that fortitude...

...difpenfations are fcourges, to drive them from their iniquity : Ifa. xxvii. 9. " By this, therefore, fhall the iniquity of Jacob be purged ; and this is all the fruit to take away his fin :" Heb. xii. 10- " He chafteneth for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holinefs." True,...

...debate with it : he ftayeth his rough wind in " the day of the eaft-wind. By this, therefore, " fhall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this " is all the fruit to take away his fin m." No period is limited in the threatenings of the defolations of Ephraim. But as Tyre was to...

...with it : he ftayeth his rough wind in " the day of the cart-wind. By this, therefore, " {hail t&e iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this " is all the fruit to take awaj his fin m." No period is limited in the threatening* of the defolations of Ephrairn. But as Tyre...

...judgments sent upon the irreclaimably wicked. Of the former we read, Isa. xxvii. 9, " By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged ; and this is all the fruit, to take away his sin." And in the eleventh Psalm it is said ; " The Lord trieth the righteous : but the wicked, and him that...

...the prophet, speaking of very terrible judgments, which God sent among the Israelites, By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his sin%. Surely then it is meet to say unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more : that...

...the prophet, speaking of very terrible judgments, which God sent among the Israelites, By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his sin*. Surely then it is meet to say unto God, I have borne chastisement, 1 will not offend any more : that...