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The man must know upon what terms and conditions Christ offereth himself in the gospel, viz. upon condition of accepting of him, believing in him, and resting upon him; and that no other way we can be made partakers of the good things purchased by Christ, but by accepting of him as he is offered in the gospel, that is to say, freely, "without price or money," Isa. lv. 1, absolutely without reservation, wholly, and for all ends, &c.
A kindred word of testimony, first given at this same time and in like manner reiterated from point to point in his pilgrimage, concerns the Lord's faithfulness in accompanying His word with power, in accordance with that positive and unequivocal promise in Isaiah lv. 11: "My word shall not return unto Me void; but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."
There is a place whither the iniquity at a man's heels can no longer follow him, and where in the perfect life the soul, at last, is able to forget. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.... I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest. Ps. lv. 6, 8. These words are the transcript of a mood.
Writing on Aug. 1, 1780, after mentioning the failure of his application to Lord Westcote, he continues: 'There is an ingenious scheme to save a day's work, or part of a day, utterly defeated. Then what avails it to be wise? The plain and the artful man must both do their own work. But I think I have got a life of Dr. Young. Piozzi Letters, ii. 173. Gent. Mag. vol. lv. p. 10.
The fifteenth topic is one by which we say that those things which have happened to us appear scandalous even to foes and enemies, and as a general rule, indignation is derived from one or other of these topics. LV. But complaint will usually take its origin from things of this kind. Complaint is a speech seeking to move the pity of the hearers.
Thomson's Queens of Society; Sainte-Beuve's Nouveaux Lundis; Lord Brougham on Madame de Staël; J. Bruce's Classic Portraits; J. Kavanagh's French Women of Letters; Biographic Universelle; North American Review, vols. x., xiv., xxxvii.; Edinburgh Review, vols. xxi., xxxi., xxxiv., xliii.; Temple Bar, vols. xl., lv.; Foreign Quarterly, vol. xiv.; Blackwood's Magazine, vols. iii., vii., x.; Quarterly Review, 152; North British Review, vol. xx.; Christian Examiner, 73; Catholic World, 18.
Already they have so altered their dwellings that we cannot refer to a typical Kulaman home; their house-hold utensils are those of their neighbors, and this is true also of most of the clothing, although one special type will be mentioned later on. BLAIR and ROBERTSON, Vol. LV, p. 556. BLAIR and ROBERTSON, Vol. XLIII, p. 242.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from the heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.—Isa. lv, 10–11.
Drusus, it is said, was so rabid with hunger, that he attempted to eat the chaff with which his mattress was stuffed. The relics of both were so scattered, that it was with difficulty they were collected. LV. Besides his old friends and intimate acquaintance, he required the assistance of twenty of the most eminent persons in the city, as counsellors in the administration of public affairs.
Easter. Deut. xxxii. 13; xxxiii. 13-15. Gen. xxi. 10. Matt. xi. 19. Luke vii. 34. Gen. xiv. 18. 1 Cor. x. 20. Ezek. xlvii. 12. Rev. xxii. 2. Hos. ii. 21-23. Joel iii. 18. Amos ix. 13. Isa. xxv. 6; lxii. 8, 9, lxv. 13. Jer. xxxi. 12-14. Zech. ix. 17. Mal. i. 11. Ps. xxiii. 5; xxvi. 6; xxxvi. 7-9; xliii. 3, 4, lxv. 4; lxiii. 6-8. Prov. ix. 1-5. Isa. lv. 1. Cant. ii. 13; iv. 6; v. 1
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