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The joyful sound: notes on the fifty-fifth chapter of Isaiah
The joyful sound notes on the fiftyfifth chapter of Isaiah Author:William Brown Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. "EVERY ONE THAT THIRSTETH." 1 VERY one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters " is an invitation that knows no limit. Had it been restricted to... more » those who are thirsting after righteousness, it would not have been followed by the expostulation, " Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not ?" Soul thirst, like bodily thirst, is universal. Both have been implanted in us by our Heavenly Father, for the purpose of inducing us to repair to those ample supplies which He has furnished in nature for satisfying the one, and in grace for satisfying the other. Natural hunger and thirst are not evils in themselves, but are amongst the greatest gifts which we have received from our Maker. They are more necessary to our temporal wellbeing than sight or hearing or limbs, or many other blessings which might be named. We could dispense with sight, or hearing, or hands, or feet, and yet live on, and even enjoy life. But deprive us of hunger and thirst, and our existence here would soon come to an end. Without the sensations of hunger and thirst, we wouldnever know when our bodies required food and drink, nor how much of the one or the other it was needful to consume, and hence eating and drinking would become irksome and even repulsive. Under such a state of things, health could not be maintained, nor life preserved. Hunger and thirst, then, are good angels, one on this side and one on that, guarding the citadel of life. As long as these angels remain with the sick, there is hope of recovery, but when they take their final departure, it is a sure indication that health is waning, and that life is ebbing. Water is so abundant, widespread, and easily obtainable, that people in general are more familiar with the pleasur...« less