...cxxxviii. 8.) But still it is liable to many and sad decays. This is plain from Scripture. God says : " Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed...into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?" (Jer. ii. 21.) "Turn, О backsliding children, saith the Lord ; for I am married unto you." (Jer. Hi....

...Jews, for their manifold wickedness. The picture drawn presents a state of things truly appalling: "I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed...into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me? For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before...

...cxxxviii. 8. But still it is liable to many and sad decays. This is plain from Scripture. God says : " Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed...the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?"— Jer. ii. 21. " Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord, for I am married unto you." — Jer. iii....

...are uot uncommon. There is a brief but expressive one in Jer. ii. 21: — ' I planted thee (Israel), a noble vine, wholly a right seed : how, then, art...thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange riñe unto me V (see ver. 21). A parable is a species of allegory ; for instance, that of the prodigal...

...so of Christendom it might have been said, " I planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed ; hosv then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?"2 For too soon, notwithstanding all its privileges, the Christian Church and people apostatized...

...will ne'er deceive us, O how he loves ! BT RERTH'S MOTlir.n. THE FALL. Genesis, Chapter Third, Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, Wholly a right seed...into the degenerate Plant of a strange vine unto me? — WOED OP GOD, Jer. it 21. IN narrating to you, my little readers, the sad and sorrowful history...

...entirely turned away from God and the truth. This very condition God foretold through his prophet. "Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:...into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?" — Jer. 2 : 21. What the people with honest minds must now do is to diligently seek the truth as it...

...longer as strangers, but of the household of the faith of the Lord, for to the unrighteous it is said, " How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me ?"2 no longer as bastards, but the sons of God, for the unrighteous are the sons of the devil, partaking...

...for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot. Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed : how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me ? For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet...

...religion of the Pharisees, made up of ceremonies and the injunctions of men. Of Israel God declared: "I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:...into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto Me?" "Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself." ° "And now, 0 inhabitants of Jerusalem,...