A Spiritual Treasury for the Children of God; Consisting of a Meditation for the Morning of Each Day in the Year Upon Select Texts of Scripture, Etc., Etc (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3A SPIRITUAL TREASURY FOR THR CHILDREN OF GOD. JANUARY. Jan. 1.?Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.?Isa. Ixii. 2. This is predicted of the church of God; which, according to covenant transactions of the glorious Trinity, stands in the nearest and dearest relation to Jesus, her Head. She is here spoken of as a single person, " thou": she is called Christ's body, Col. i. 24. and " the bride, the Lamb's wife," Rev. xxi. 9. of whom, saith God the Father, " I have loved thee with an everlasting love," Jer. xxxi. 3. Yea, saith the Son of God to his Father, of all his beloved members, "Thou hast loved them, as thou hast loved me? and thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world," John xvii. 23, 24. O most comforting truths of God's ' word ! how ancient is the love of God to his church ! That God should love us miserable sinners at all, is amazing; but that he should love us with the very same, everlasting, unchangeable love, wherewith he loves his own beloved Son, this surpasseth all knowledge ! This love is the source of all blessings in time; this love secures all happiness in eternity. The Son of God has manifested his infinite love to his church, by conflicting with and overcomiHg all the powers of earth and hell for her sake. He most dearly purchased her, in a way of strict justice, with his most precious blood. But he finds every one of his ransomed ones branded with . . B this old name of infamy, a sinner; it being near six thousand years since first entailed. By nature we are'all old in sin, and dead in sin; but being predestinated unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, and to be conformed to his image, to the praise of the glory of God's grace, therefore we shall be called by a new name. This the Lord, the Spirit, effecteth...