...godliness, nor in a lively experience of that gracious promise recorded in the I4th chapter of Hosea, viz. "I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon ; " nevertheless, the Christian life is a hidden life, and true believers "walk by faith, and not by...

...godliness, nor in a lively experience of that gracious promise recorded in the I4th chapter of Hosea, viz. " I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon ; " nevertheless, the Christian life is a hidden life, and true believers " walk by faith, and not...

...the second verse. We have a promise to this effect, and with something of an eucharistic aspect— * They that dwell under his shadow shall return, * they shall revive as the corn (relative to the * bread), and blossom as the vine ; his (scent, we ' read it, zachrie, literally as...

...mine anger :° turned away from them.. r will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow a*= the Illy, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell us Lebanon. They that dwell' under his shadow shall return; they •hall...

...represents the gradual improvement of grace Md holiness ; and this is the growth of trees and plants. 'I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the 1iIy, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon: his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the...

...12. Are we fearful that we shall never grow and flourish in the ways of God ? The promise to us is, / will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. Hos. xiv. 6. Do we apprehend, that after all our enjoyments we shall be left to recede into a State...

...of the Son.' Thus the Spirit, speaking by David, saith, " I will declare the decree ;" and again, " I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily." And it was this Spirit who, at sundry times, and in divers manners spake by the prophets unto the elect,...

...the orphan of thy care, In vain the fiend my soul attacks, when thou art present here. OX THE DEW. " I will be as the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily," Hos. sir. 5. " As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountain* of Zion, for...

...clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud "of dew in the heat of harvest."* "I will be as the "dew to Israel; he shall grow as the lily; and cast forth "his roots as Lebanon:"! — "As the tender grass springing out of the earth by the clear shining after rain.J" And the earth...

...then influences for growth flow, and the believer's graces look fresh and green again, IIos. xiv. 7. " They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the com, and grow as the vine." In the worst ef times, the saints have a principle of growth in them, 1...