...Christ Jesus our Lord ;" and observe the illustration of the same precious truth in the 8i)th Psalm : " If his children forsake my law, and w^alk not in my...keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquities with stripes : nevertheless my loving kindness will...

...foolishly, from henceforth thou shalt have wars." Yea, something of this kind must be expected. — "If my children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments...keep not my commandments : then will I visit their transgressions with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes." He has said " if ye walk contrary to me,...

...case is supposed by which their salvation is most endangered — their forsaking the path of duty. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my...they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments. A. pitiable case indeed! what can be worse, except being given up of God? But lo, how he deals with...

...hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, Ezra Lx. 13. and if his children forsake my law, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their...and their iniquity with stripes; nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, Psal. Ixxxix. 30, — 31. and the prophet, speaking...

...them smart for their folly, but he will not abandon-them to ruin. According to that declaration; Jf his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments ; if they break my statutes, and Jceefi not my commandments j then will I -visit their transgressions -with a rod, and their iniquity...

...and walk not in my judgments; if they break, or, profane my statutes, and keep not niycommandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes"." 'Though sins of commission do, indeed, expose believers to fatherly chastisements ; yet, I believe...

...their transgressions with a rod, and their iniquity with itrifies. Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to faif.-t As the Lord corrects his children, when disoidient; so he reveals more of his love to them,...

...backsliding, may bring great guilt and chasiisements upon themselves, and awful judgments upon their families. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my...transgression with the rod) and their iniquity with stripes.* What affecting instances of this have we in Eli, David and others, who might be mentioned ? Of what...

...righteous commands. He expressly declares concerning his children in the eighty-ninth Psalm. "If they forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they...and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless, my loviog-kindness will I not utterly take from them, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail." And agreeably...

...a promise is annexed, and in the wilful omission of any the frown o£ our Father may be expected. " If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my...will I visit their transgression with the rod, and theiriniquity with stripes." All the stones in a particular arch may not in the view of a spectator...