...directed to our Lord Jesus Christ, as the chief corner stone, agreeable to Isaiah xxviii. 16. — " Thus saith the Lord God, behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation." 1. This leads us to contemplate our Lord in his...

...immediately sink into an horrible pit, and stick fast in the miry clay ; but " Behold," says God, " I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation ; he that believeth shall not make haste."** Moses is now directed to make all needful preparation...

...eminently " sets his King on his holy hill of Zion," so it is a time wherein he remarkably fulfils that in Isa. xxviii. 16. " Therefore thus saith the Lord God,...stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation." Which the two apostles, Peter and Paul, ( 1 Pet. ii. 6 — -8and Rom. ix. 33.) join with that prophecy,...

...again in the sixteenth verse of the twenty-eighth chapter he introduces the lord, God, as saying— ' Behold! I lay in Zion for a foundation a ' stone,...stone, a precious corner-stone, ' a sure foundation.' These are expressions, which every where in the new testament are applied to Jesus Christ: and, having...

...eminently sets his King on his holy hill of Zion, so it is a time wherein he remarkably fulfils that in Isa. xxviii. 16. " Therefore thus saith the Lord God,...stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation." Which the two apostles Peter and Paul (1 Pet. ii. 6, 7, 8. and Rom: ix. 33.) join with that prophecy,...

...on his holy hill of Zion, so it is a time wherein he remarkably fulfils that in Isa. xxviii. 10. " Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in...stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation." Which the two apostles Peter and Paul (1 Pet. ii. 6, 7, 8. and Rom: ix. 33.) join with that prophecy,...

...on his holy hill of Zion, so it is a time wherein he remarkably fulfils that in Isa. xxviii. 10. " Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in...stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation." Which the two apostles Peter and Paul (1 Pet. ii. 6, 7, 8. and Rom: ix. 33.) join with that prophecy,...

...— not shifting sand, but solid rock, — the foundation of which Jehovah himself hath said — " Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone,...stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation ; and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed." You will tell me, perhaps, that your affections...

...Christ, and he had possession of it as Mediator, when he first set his hand to the work of redemption. " Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone." The Lord himself must change, before this kingdom can be moved out of its place; attach yourselves...

...all thy confidence reposes, and all thy hopes are built, that this precious description applies — " Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a...stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation !" Were it possible that a doubt of this delightful truth might still remain, the words of Paul would...