DISCOURSE: 916 HELP FOR US IN GOD Isaiah 38:14. _O Lord, I am oppressed: undertake for me!_ THE time of death is an awful season to every child of man: but it may be more or less terrible, according to circumstances. There may, in that hour, be such manifestations of God’s presence vouchsafed to th... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 917 FORGIVENESS KNOWN AND ENJOYED Isaiah 38:17. _Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back._ IN all the Scriptures there is not any thing more tender and pathetic than... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 918 PRAISING GOD FOR HIS MERCIES Isaiah 38:19. _The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth._ THIS is a part of a most pathetic record, written by Hezekiah after his recovery from a sickness which he had expected t... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 919 HEZEKIAH’S THANKSGIVING FOR HIS RECOVERY Isaiah 38:20. _The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments, all the days of our life, in the house of the Lord._ TO make public acknowledgments to God for national mercies is a duty so evident, th... [ Continue Reading ]