...of inspiration. It has God for its author. And shall He be suspected of misrepresentation ? " God is not a man that he should lie ; nor the son of man that he should repent : Hath he said, and shall he not do it ? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?"...

...of inspiration. Jt has God for its author. And shall He be suspected of misrepresentation ? " God is not a man that he should lie ; nor the son of man that he should repent : Hath lte said, and shall he not do it ? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good ?"...

...Almighty power which was pledged to give him the victory—when he should have considered ihat " God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent."—Do you, reader, wonder at this unbelief? And are you quite sure that the same leaven is...

...Fall, for some reason : God would not for nothing contravene his threatened word of death : " He is not a man, that he should lie ; nor the son of man, that he should repeat." Well, then, and for what was it ? It could not be for an idle monument of what they once were,...

...remembrance all the promises he has made to good men, as the words of him ' who changes not ;' who ' is not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man that he should repent.' Recollect the general tenour of that providence, whose course it has ever been, since the...

...promises of men are vain and false like themselves, and often make us ashamed of our hope. But the Lord is not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man that he should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good ? And has...

...written either by any such per• Similar pleonasms, not without considerable beauty, are— •' God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the Son of man, that he should repent." — Numb, xxiii. 19. " Shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion."...

...— that with our Sovereign Ruler, there " is no variable" ness nor shadow of turning ;" 3 " he is not a " man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, " that he should repent," 4 but being " the same " yesterday to day, and for ever ; " 5 we need not dread in him the...

...about by means, which will not defy our sagacity, and transcend our comprehension ? God is not, indeed, a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Hath he said ? He will assuredly do it. Hath he spoken ? Of a truth he will make it good. But...

...assertions of men, if he would only embrace the record that the Scripture gives him of God, " that he is not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man that he should repent." In every covenant promise that speaks sweetly to us of the willingness and the omnipotence...