...loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee." Jer. xxxi. 3. " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of Love." Hos. xi. 4. The Man is the Messiah, the Messiah is God, God is Love. How sweet the climax for mortality...

...loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee." Jer. xxxi. 3. " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of Love." Hos. xi. 4. The Man is the Messiah, the Messiah is God, God is Love. How sweet the climax for mortality...

...neither answer nor acknowledge my mercies. XI. 4-. 7 drew them with cords of a man, with bands of loee: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. I drew them unto me, by the strong persuasions of reason, and with bonds of love : and I did to them,...

...neither answer nor acknowledge my mercies. XI. 4. / drew them with cords of a man, tt-it h bands of locc: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them. I drew them unto me, by the strong persuasions of reason, and with bonds of love : and I did to them,...

...turn again to folly ;" or, as the words have been read, " that they may not turn again to folly." " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love ;" that is, as some translate the text, " I drew them with the cables of a man, with the thick-twisted...

...Nothing. But let us attend to the description that God Himself gives of this work by His servant Hosea. " I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love:...the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them." (Hosea xi. 4). Or in the beautiful language of David, which is also the voice of inspiration, we are...

...remainders there are in him of that nature which was first given, and which is still human nature; "I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love," Hosea xi. 4. If there be such a thing as love in the nature of man not quite abolished, not quite erased,...

...taken out, and its neck released from the yoke. This opened up to us the meaning of the prophet, " I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them."\ Windmills and acacia-trees were the common objects that varied the scene on the road. A small lake...

...also to go, taking them by their arms ; but they knew not that I healed them. I drew them with (he cords of a man, with bands of love ; and I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws ; and I laid meat unto them." That their ingratitude for their mercies...

...When Israel was a child, then I loved him. I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms ; I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love." There are some parents who, in their eagerness to make doctrinal points plain to children, debase them...