...of it. But God does complain of his people for their estrangements from him. " Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals. What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me ?" Jer. 2 : 2, 5. As if...

...LORD came to me, saying, 2 _LV-L Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD ; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown ; / remember thy obedience and subjection, when thou wast first formed...

...days of Joshua, as it has been in the Christian church. Thus God addresses the church : " I remember the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, &c." t^tiest. 7. But supposing the covenant of Abraham to be the covenant of grace, and of perpetual...

...given to Jeremiah, Jeremiah ii. 2. " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord ; all that devour him shall offend ;...

...and would have them- to know how pleasant and acceptable they were to him. " Thussailh the Lord, 1 remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou weiitest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness unto the Lord,...

...but how cutting is it to read, " Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the .Lord, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that .was not sown. Ah ! my people have .committed two evils : they have forsaken me, the...

...appears by many things said in scripture about them ; as, particularly, Jer. ii. 2, 3, « I.re-i member thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine...espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown, Israel was holiness to the Lord, and the first fruits of his increase.'*...

...walled city ; more firm than a pillar of iron, or walls of brass, &c. II. 2 Thus saith the LORD ; / remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me m the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. II. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits...

...pillar of iron, or walls of brass, &c. II. 2 Thus saith the LORD ; I remember thee, the kindness at" thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. II. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firsffru Its of his increase:...

...piety ; as appears by many things said in scripture about them ; as, particularly, Jer. ij. 2, 3. " I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine, espousals, wren thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in 9 . land that v.-as no: sown. Israel was holiness...