...head : " My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him: — my loving-kindness .will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." The backslider, if left to himself, or dealt with according to strict demerit, would fall to perdition...

...I have exalted One chosen out of the people. — His seed also will I make to endure forever : — if His children forsake my law, and walk not in my...and their iniquity with stripes ; nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from Him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." He who never...

...conceive such a diabolical idea. Yet if there are such i human beings, we know who hath said, " If my children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments...keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquities with stripes. Nevertheless, my loving kindness '...

...Ver. 32. Then will 1 visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Ver. 33. Nevertheless my loving-kindness •will I not utterly...take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. Ver. 34. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. * [Lev. xxvi....

...Christ Jesus our Lord ;" and observe the illustration of the same precious truth in the 8i)th Psalm : " If his children forsake my law, and w^alk not in my...keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquities with stripes : nevertheless my loving kindness will...

...foolishly, from henceforth thou shalt have wars." Yea, something of this kind must be expected. — "If my children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments...keep not my commandments : then will I visit their transgressions with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes." He has said " if ye walk contrary to me,...

...case is supposed by which their salvation is most endangered — their forsaking the path of duty. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my...they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments. A. pitiable case indeed! what can be worse, except being given up of God? But lo, how he deals with...

...hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, Ezra Lx. 13. and if his children forsake my law, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their...and their iniquity with stripes; nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, Psal. Ixxxix. 30, — 31. and the prophet, speaking...

...them smart for their folly, but he will not abandon-them to ruin. According to that declaration; Jf his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; if they break my statutes, and Jceefi not my commandments j then will I -visit their transgressions -with a rod, and their iniquity...

...backsliding, may bring great guilt and chasiisements upon themselves, and awful judgments upon their families. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my...transgression with the rod) and their iniquity with stripes.* What affecting instances of this have we in Eli, David and others, who might be mentioned ? Of what...