HEART TO LIE TO THE HOLY GHOST, AND TO KEEP BACK PART OF THE PRICE OF THE LAND? WHILES IT REMAINED, WAS IT FOR WE HAVE NOT AN HIGH PRIEST WHICH CANNOT BE TOUCHED "" ALTHOUGH THE FIG-TREE SHALL NOT BLOSSOM, NEITHER SHALL FRUIT BE IN THE VINES ; THE LABOUR OF THE OLIVE SHALL AND A MAN SHALL BE AS AN HIDING PLACE FROM THE WIND AND A COVERT FROM THE TEMPEST; AS RIVERS OF WATER IN FOR WE ARE UNTO GOD A SWEET SAVOUR OF CHRIST, IN THEM THAT ARE SAVED, AND IN THEM THAT PERISH : TO THE ONE "AND NOW, BRETHREN, I COMMEND YOU TO GOD, AND TO THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, WHICH IS ABLE TO BUILD YOU UP, AND SERMONS. SERMON I. EXODUS XXIII. 30. BY LITTLE AND LITTLE I WILL DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE, UNTIL THOU BE INCREASED AND INHERIT THE LAND." THE typical resemblance between Israel after the flesh, and the Church of Christ, is too generally admitted and familiar to require any formal proof or elaborate illustration. Their election to be a people unto the Lord, their original captivity, their miraculous redemption from bondage, their wanderings in the wilderness, the enemies by whom they were surrounded, God's mercies towards them, the deliverances he wrought out for them—and, on the other hand, their ingratitude, perverseness, unbelief, rebellion-all these circumstances find their precise counterpart in the history of the universal church, and in the experience of B |