A MOTTO FOR ALL TIMES AND SEASONS. BEING A SELECTION OF TEXTS IN WHICH GOD'S PROMISES AND FAITH'S PLEA ARE MOST ENCOURAGINGLY PRESENTED. BY DAVID A. DOUDNEY, D.D., Vicar of St. Luke's, Bedminster. AUTHOR OF "SYMPATHY," "BIBLE LIVES AND BIBLE LESSONS," &c., &c. "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have "Then I said, I am cast out of Thy sight; YET I will look again LONDON: THE BOOK SOCIETY, 28, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1871. 101. f. 307. •BOD PREFACE. THE Bible, despised though it be, has an adaptation to every case, a solace for every fear, a balm for every wound, and a power, persuasion, and preciousness that are perfectly supernatural. One little word from this vast storehouse is presented to the reader in the following pages, which it is hoped, under God, may stir him up to hope and encouragement. Doubtless the reader only too well knows that the world through which he is journeying towards vast Eternity, is a world of sin and sorrow. Under such circumstances the cheering word is necessary-something to counsel in perplexity, and to comfort in trial. Where is it to be found? In the Bible! There the promises of a faithful, gracious, long-suffering God abound, and from this boundless and inexhaustible treasury, Faith is furnished with her pleas and her arguments at the footstool of mercy, and before the God of all grace. That the reader may personally experience the truthfulness of these remarks, and that the contents of this little work may be instrumental in strengthening and stimulating him, is the earnest prayer of THE AUTHOR. ST. LUKE'S, BEDMINSTER, January, 1871. CONTENTS. THE LORD'S PITIFULNESS AND COMPASSION. "And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God. But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the Land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord" (Lev. xxvi. 44, 45) PAGE 12 |