...greatest magnitude. Such passages as the following are at once encouraging and familiar to his thoughts. " I will take you one of a city and two of a tribe, and I will bring you to Zion," — after doing this, it follows, " And I will give you pastors...

...greatest magnitude. Such passages as the following are at once encouraging and familiar to his thoughts. " I will take you one of a city and two of a tribe, and I will bring you to Zion," — after doing this, it follows, " And I will give you pastors...

...efficacy and success of the invitation resembles rather the prophetic declaration of Jeremiah —' I will ' take you, one of a city, and two of a family ; ' and I will bring you to Zion ; and I will 1 give you pastors according to mine heart, ' who shall feed you with knowledge and ' understanding.'...

...the south, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven." And again, " I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion." Jer. iii. 14. Every part of the scripture is full of the Lord's manifestations of distinguishing, sovereign...

...restoration of the Jewish church, and the establishment of the Gentile church, and he then adds, " and I will give you pastors according to mine heart,...shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." And, again, when oar Lord addressed Peter three successive times, he said to him, " Feed my sheep,...

...the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel ; for he hath glorified thee." Jer. iii. 15. " And 1 will give you pastors according to mine heart, which...shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." This implies a promise that there should be such pastors in being, and that they should be faithful...

...with the context. And whereas it is said, ver. 14, " Return, O backsliding children, saith the Lord, for I am married unto you, and I will take you one of a city, &c." I am married, in the Hebrew, is in the preterperfect tense; but you know, Sir, that in the language...

...return from her transgressions and idolatries, the Prophet encourages their repentance by declaring, " I will " give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed yon " with knowledge and understanding. And it shall come to " pass when ye be multiplied and increased...

...remembrance, and by guiding them as his Church's Guides. IN the Old Testament it is prophesied and promised, " And I will give you pastors according to mine heart,...shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." (Jer. iii. 15.) See all the texts that promise the pouring out of the Spirit, Isa. xliv. 3 ; Ezek....

...way. walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left." Jer. iii. 15. " And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.11 And chapter xxiii. 4. " And I -wilt set up shepherds over them, which shall feed them."...