...1. t 2 Pet . i. 4. } Psalm Ixxxix. 30, 31, 32. § Heb. xii. 5—11. 1 Cor. xi. 32. I! Mai. ii. 16. if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgressions with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from...

...being ingrafted into this stock, they yield the pleasant fruits of righteousness. " If his children break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their iniquity with the rod, and their sins with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly...

...commandments ; I wUl visit their offences with the rod, and their sin with scourges. 33 Nevertheless, mv 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 oui of my lips: I...

...will not suffer them to perish utterly, Ps. 89. 30 — 34. " If his children forsake my law, airfl walk not in my judgments ; if they break my statutes,...visit their transgressions with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from Him, nor suffer...

...Covenant of Grace, or more properly, perhaps, of the Covenant of Redemption, speaking of Christ, God says, If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, then will I visit their transgression with a rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless, my...

...transferred from earth to heaven, and rendered coeval with those eternal mansions of the blessed. 30. ' If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;' 31. 'If they break,' or profane, ' my statutes, and keep not my commandments;' 32. 'Then will I visit...

...and I will be his father.' He, that foresaw his sin, threatened and limited his correction; ' If he break my statutes, and keep not my commandments, then will I visit his transgression with a rod, and his iniquity with stripes; nevertheless, my loving kindness will...

...inviolable, which he solemnly ratified with Christ, the true Solomon, and his members in these words: "If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments, if they profane my righteousnesses . . . and keep not my commandments, ... I will visit their transgressions...

...to depart into a far country. You are with me to the end, in accordance with my saying unto David: If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments, if they profane my justices and keep not my commandments, I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their...

...perverse judgments. Therefore, the sceptre of uprightness is called the sceptre of His Kingdom. 'And if his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments, I will visit their iniquities with a rod.'67 Do> you see the just judgment of God? He does not make...