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Christian Comfort, by the Author of 'emblems of Jesus'.
Christian Comfort by the Author of 'emblems of Jesus' Author:Peter Grant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Ps. cvii. 7. J " And He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation." |]HE dealings of God towards His chosen people are often marked by inscrutable mystery. " His way is in the sea, and His path in the mighty waters, and His footsteps are not known." But although clouds and darkness are round about Him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of His throne. He doeth all things wisely and well; and if we but patiently wait for Him, He will, in His own good time, give us abundant reason to acknowledge, that "all His paths are mercy and truth, unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies." How wonderful were the Divine dealings, as set forth in the journeyings of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan! The way by which Jehovah conducted them was circuitous, and most discouraging. Instead of leading them" through the way of the land of the Philistines," although that was near, He sent them " through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea." By this course their journeyings were extended to the long period of forty years, during which they had to travel through a dangerous and desolate country -- "a waste howling wilderness," as it is emphatically called; " a land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought, and of the shadow of death; a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt." Notwithstanding all these discouraging circumstances, however, every step of their way was directed by infinite wisdom and goodness, and tended but to fulfil the gracious purpose of the Almighty Leader, to humble, and to prove them, and to do them good at their latter end...« less