...was my father," (Deut. xxvi. 5.) " Hearken to me," exclaims the prophet, " ye that seek the Lord ; look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged," (Isaiah li. 1.) The greater that our attainments are in the divine life, the more striking is the evidence...

...promiselh deliverance. HE ARKEN to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD : that mocketh 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you : for I called him alone, and blessed...

...you obtained mercy. " Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord ; look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged." Retrace in your memory the circumstances of your conversion to God. The book of your personal history...

...that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn. 2. Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that...called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. 3. For the LORD shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness...

...hewn, And to the hole of the pit— ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah — bare you ; For I called him alone, And blessed him,...increased him. For the Lord shall comfort Zion : He will comfort all her waste places, And he will make her wilderness like Eden ; And her desert like the garden...

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...prophet (the fifty-first chapter), the example of Abraham is thus held forth to devout Israelites — " Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the...called him alone, and blessed him and increased him." Here the expression " I called him alone" seems to show that Abraham had been as it were " alone,"...

...invites his descendants; " Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the...ye are digged. Look unto Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him." In Abraham, also,...

...forth the riches of his grace! Yes, "ye that now follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord, look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged." Consider what you were by nature before God : none of you righteous, no not one : all...