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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 ]
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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 ]
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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 ]
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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 ]
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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 ]
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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 ]
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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 ]
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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 ]