To be near unto God - pagina 583

seeks his holy thinks of him, goes out to him, and On the other hand Gods love is fellowship.

not his child can forget him, and with in think of him, and be engaged it depends everything save him; when, as far as order on us, he is the forsaken one. For, the heart deeply and strongly to impress upon of God after the outgoing of the Fatherheart his word God love's fellowship with his child, love to us does not shrink from representing this affection ^^ in the image of conjugal Ezekiel In the description of connubial love behath God that 16 it is constantly declared image of^ the trothed himself unto Israel. In the umolds church as bride, the passionate love which wife, is repeatedly in the relation of husband and As a bride lives applied to God and his people so must solely and alone for her bridegroom God. And God's people live solely and alone for the bride or wife as desertion on the part of bridegroom or deeply offends the heart of the that envy husband, wounds and bruises it, so burning like hre arises irresistibly, even jealousy he is moved so the Lord our God declares that him by holy envv when his people can forget and when his redeemed ones can wander away even the anger desert him in his love. Yea, then, -Who restrained. of quick jealousv can not be upon the chilvisiteth the iniqmty of the fathers generation dren unto the third and fourth Thus to be near unto God has its terrible other He who is not near unto God, is near unto side something something else, inclines his heart to And this else. else gives his love to something Divine jealousy. Whether in that case

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