...sufferings. It is one clause of the covenant of grace, made with Christ, typified by David, " if his children break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgression with a rod," to amend not to destroy them; " but my loving kindness I will not take away from them, nor...

...keep not my commandments : I will visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with scourges. 33 Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him : nor suffer my truth .to fail. 34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips :...

...ultimate respect is had, no doubt, as the anti-typical David, when' it is said in Psalms Ixxxix, " If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments — Then will I (visit their transgression with the rod." A seed necessarily implies ancestry, or parentage....

...which he hath made with Christ, the antitype of Solomon, and with all his members, in these words; " If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my...rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving- kindness will I not utterly take from him." (/) Finally, the order of the Creed teaches us...

...to the constitution of his well ordered covenant — Psalms Ixxxix. 30. If his children (Christ's) forsake my law and walk not in my judgments — if...visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniguity with stripes. Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer...

...which he hath made with Christ, the antitype of Solomon, and with all his members, in these words; " If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my statutes, :;nd keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity...

...declared shall never be diminished: " If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my commandments; if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquities with stripes. Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will...

...because of some tacit conditions understood in them. So we find Psal. Ixxxix. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35' 3°". If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments,...take from, him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail; my covenant will I not break; nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by...

...because of some tacit conditions understood in them. So we find Psal. Ixxxix. 31, 32, 33, 34> 35, 36. If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments,...take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail; my covenant will I not break; nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn, by...

...confessing his sin ! All this is instructive to us. Hear what the Lord says by his servant David : " If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my...transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes." And why will he thus visit? Not in anger, but in mercy — to bring them to penitence and prayer —...