Evangelist Jeremiah 3:4 Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth? I. HAS NOT GOD ALREADY ACTED A MOST WISE AND FRIENDLY PART? 1. Review your general privileges. Who formed you from nothing into being? who assigned you a rank among human creatures? who prepared in a parent's heart the affections which welcomed and nourished the helpless stranger? who reared you up to youth? who kindled the dawn of mason? whose hand opened for you the warm and widening circle of friendship? 2. You are bound by peculiar obligations. It is no small thing that an heritage has been found for you in Britain. You are not the children of savages, mingling in their barbarous manners. II. IS NOT GOD ABLE TO FILL UP, THROUGH ALL FUTURE PERIODS, THE RELATIONS TO WHICH HE INVITES YOUR NOTICE? He offers Himself as a Father and as a Guide. His power, His wisdom, and His goodness will support the titles. III. DOES NOT THE SEASON OF YOUTH NEED SUCH A FATHER AND SUCH A GUIDE? What can preserve the morals of youth? Shall the frail bark live in the tempest? Shall flames surround a military magazine, and not produce an explosion? Can a lamb make its way through a herd of wolves? IV. MAY NOT THE SEASON OF YOUTH BE THE ONLY ONE THAT SHALL DISPLAY SUCH ADVANTAGES AS ARE ATTACHED TO IT? You know not that you shall survive this age; that you are under sentence is felt by yourselves, and sometimes lamented. Can you charm death away? Can you obtain a momentary respite? (Evangelist.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?WEB: Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?' |
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