DISCOURSE: 1068 GRACIOUS INFLUENCES THE FRUIT OF ELECTING LOVE Jeremiah 31:3. _The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee_. THERE is a most glorious connexion subsisting between the Lord and his p... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1069 THE RESTORATION OF THE JEWS Jeremiah 31:7. _Thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations; publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1070 THE CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS Jeremiah 31:8. _Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child, and her that traraileth with child together: a great company shall return thither. They s... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1071 THE PREACHED GOSPEL A SOURCE OF BLESSINGS TO THE WORLD Jeremiah 31:10. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattereth Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1072 THE REFLECTIONS OF A PENITENT Jeremiah 31:18. _I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1073 THE SURE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN Jeremiah 31:30. _Every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge_. POPULAR sentiments, even when they become so general as to be reduced to a standing proverb, are not _therefore_ to be received as true: they must be tried, exactly a... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1074 THE NEW COVENANT Jeremiah 31:31. Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the Home of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that took them by the hand to bring them out of the lan... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1075 THE CHURCH’S SECURITY Jeremiah 31:35. _Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which dirideth the sea when the wares thereof roar; The Lord of Hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart fr... [ Continue Reading ]