'The counsel and pleasure of God in the vicissitudes of states and communities', a sermon

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Page 12 - Ye looked for much, and. lo, it came to little ; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land...
Page 5 - Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb; 'and even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Page 17 - And we beseech thee give us that due sense of all thy mercies that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful and that we may show forth thy praise not only with our lips but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days...
Page 6 - If his children forsake my law, And walk not in my judgments ; If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments ; Then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
Page 10 - 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 of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 12 - Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Page 12 - But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. For he remembered that they were but flesh ; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Page 17 - Heaven, through Jesus Christ our Lord : To whom, with the Father ^ and the Holy Spirit, be ascribed all honour and glory, for evermore.
Page 8 - And behold, it shall come to pass that my servants shall be sent forth to the east and to the west, to the north and to the south; 64.
Page 10 - We are therefore to consider ourselves not as placed here accidentally, nor even for Ihe fulfilment of a temporary or unimportant purpose ; but as conducted by the Providence of God to bear our part in the execution of that eternal purpose which was laid in Christ Jesus before the world began...

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