...3.) " Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matt. iii. 2.) V. Caution to the formal. " Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto...kindness, and repenteth him of the evil." (Joel ii. 13.) Such are the sentences with which the minister of the Church of England is enjoined to commence...

...God are a broken spirit : a broken and a contrite heart, О God, thou wilt not despise. Psalm li. 17. Rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto...kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Joel ii. 13. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him ; neither...

...the Cattect ap~ pointedfor the Day. For the Epistle. Joel il. 12. TURN ye even to me, saith the Lord, with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping,...garments, and turn unto the Lord your God : for he is grecious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth...

...Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, &c. take with you words, and turn to the Lord. — Hosea xiv. 1, 2. Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting,...mourning : and rend your heart, and not your garments, &c. for he is gracious. — Joel ii. 12, 13. God sent judgment after judgment ; yet Israel repented...

...Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, &c. take with you words, and turn to the Lord. — Hosea xiv. 1, 2. Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting,...mourning : and rend your heart, and not your garments, &c. for he is gracious. — Joel ii. 12, 13. God sent judgment after judgment ; yet Israel repented...

...prophet more directly inculcates the duty of a nation under great distress : " There" fore now also, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me " with all your...with " weeping, and with mourning : and rend your 1 Psal. xxxii. 3—5. ' Hos. v. 14, 15. vi. 1. ' Hos. xiv. 1—4. u heart, and not your garments, and...

...of the loving Father, who waits that He may be gracious. " Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and .... rend your heart, and not your garments, and...; for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness ;" l lest otherwise, when you seek admittance into the heavenly kingdom, the...

...keep anger for ever, Jer. iii. 12. Andrend your heart, find not your garments, and turn vXitO the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to...kindness, and repenteth him of the evil, Joel. ii. 13. Let tke wicked forsake his toays, and the unrighteous man Mi thoughts, and let him return unto...

...mighly population. " Whoknoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him ; — for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and...of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil." It is not our province, neither is it our design, to take the reviewer's chair, Mr. Editor, but there...

...his people for their sins, and yet, that these judgments might be prevented, be thus admonished them, "Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with lusting, and with weeping, and with mourning: And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn...