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NEW JERUSALEM SERMON.BY REV. AHIKL SILVKR.«.». %i.O: Hi* Unit I him hurt not the oil and tint wine,How mrreiftil and kind is our heavenvly Father toward* u^f Infinite indeed I* Id* compassionate cure. Ill how many thousand way* doe* lie million u«* against hurling ourselves I He watches over ua with the lend* rent Interval, lit keep* nround ii.a hi* protecting angel*, and extends to us the immediate influence of his Spirit. He spread* out before u* llic book ol Nature, filling it uitli prompter* to caution and care, lie come* to us in hi* Holy Word, and whisper* in accent# of the ten dr re* I mercy.— All hi* commandment* are in the voice oflovej thev forbid only the thing* that will hurt us, and riMpiire only those that will hies* us. And particularly in our leit doc* he come with u most merciful admonition; aud, if we are careful to regard It. the higliot possible blessing* will be our*.lt;* Sec that tbouhurt not theoil and the wine. All the evil* that have ever fallen upon our race came by hurting the oil and the wine: for the oil denote* goodness; aud the wine, truth. But the oil I* the primary essence. Without the oil there can bo no wine. If we take all the essential oil from the grape, we take allU(N| a non-'*, — un mia iHrmi.-,expression, that If Clod would be with him in hi* regeneration, and give him aplritun! food clothing, or goodness to eat and righteousnM# to put on. and bring him to hi* heavenly Father's house in peace or lotheklngdottiof heaven, then the l.ord would be his Hod; and the stone pillar, llie divine truth In hi* soul, would be (Soil * bouse: and the truth would theu he Hod's lions*; l»*cati*c Hod I* love, and lore dwell* In the truth. Human minds, regenerated, are railed, in the Word, temple* ol the Lord. The church I* called the ‘ body of CbrUt, and the hou«r of Hod. The truth, then, in tilling Jacob's regenerated mind, would He the habitation of love,—‘(Jod's house.'Let u«, then, follow the example of Jacob.— Let as set up the truth of the l.ord In oar soul, in a pillar of support, and the anchor of our hppe; and let u* pour upon it the oil of love,— let u* give it the heart's best affections; and let u* go with the Lord nil the way of our regeneration, receiving from him goodness to eat and righteousness to put on, till we cotne safely out of all our evils, and arrive in peace at our Father's house of many mansions. Then the Lord w ill indeed he our Hod, and the stone which we had set up in our soul for a pillar will be Cod’s lious**: and he will dwell in us, in his goodness and truth, forever.i. i___... i. .______ .j* os.,
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Wilmington Delaware Inquirer
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Sat, Apr 07, 1860
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