...powers, calms their anxious and disquieting fears, and fills thjjm with joy and peace in believing. The friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth...rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. It is his voice which quickens those who are dead in trespasses and sins, directs the doubtful, and...

...endeavoured to excite his jealousy on account of the superior ministerial success of Christ, replied, Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth...

...endeavoured to excite his jealousy on account of the superior ministerial success of Christ, replied, Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and.heareth...

...and hangs upon the lips of his divine Master ! The friend of the bridegroom, says John the Baptist, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice : and he adds, this my joy is fulfilled c. So may the Christian express himself in hours of extraordinary...

...understand, than he does to the same blessed person in the character of the Bridegroom of the Church. " He that hath the Bride is the Bridegroom : but the...Bridegroom's voice ; this my joy therefore is fulfilled q." So again St. Paul, 0 Ps. cxxxix. 2. P 2 Cor. vi. 16. * John, iii. 29. " I have espoused you to...

...fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth, Psal. xlv. 10 — 16. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom : but the...bridegroom's voice : this my joy therefore is fulfilled, John iii. 29. For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy : for 1 have espoused you to one husband,...

...to him. 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. 28 rther to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 4 And when he had apprehend 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom : but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and...

...him. 25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. 28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. 29 He that...

...tin |!|Ш lyà à Xpisrif. And he confessed, and denial not; but confuted, »Í am mil the Chriit. »Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that 1 am sent before him. He that hath the bride is the bridegroom : but the friend of the bridegroom,...

...man ! Again, (chap. iii. 28 :)—' I am not the Christ,.bat I am sent before him. He [the mere man] that hath the bride is the bridegroom ; but the friend of the bridegroom that standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly, becanse of the bridegroom's voice: This my joy, therefore,...