...magnitude of crime do not force from him, as it were against his will; God who speaketh not in vain, " who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast," J and whose word, whether it be a promise or a threat, a blessing or a curse, is still that same word...

...soul, go out in eternal night, sooner than have this awful God against me ! It need not be. That God who ' spake and it was done,' who ' commanded and it stood fast,' who said, ' let there be light and there was light,' — this God is love. I hear a voice coming from...

...the time of the singing of birds is come, and tho voice of the turtle is heard in our land," but He who "spake, and it was done,— who commanded, and it stood fast!" Our little favourites, too, by this time will have commenced in good earnest all their operations ;...

...has the sublimity of the narration been equalled, much less surpassed, by any subsequent writer. He who " spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast," could have created the world in a moment of time ; but such an act would have been altogether incomprehensible...

...trembling hand is the hand of him who made the world ; that feeble, wailing cry is the voice of him who spake, and it was done — who commanded and it stood fast. See that carpenter laboring in the shed at Nazareth ! The penalty of Adam is standing on his brow in...

...go out in eternal night, sooner than have this awful God against me ! — It need not be. That God who ' spake and it was done,' who ' commanded and it. stood fast,' who said, ' let there be light and there was light,' — this God is love. I hear a voice coming from...

...trembling hand is the hand of Him who made the world ; that feeble, wailing cry is the voice of Him who ' spake, and it was done — who commanded, and it stood fast.' See the carpenter, labouring in the shed at Nazareth ! The penalty of Adam is standing on his brow...

...beings. The Scriptures never assert Jehovah God — who said " Let there be light, and there was light ; who spake and it was done, who commanded, and it stood fast" — to be more than one person. They never affirm, nor even imply, that the term one, when predicted...

...minister to them that are the heirs of salvation." All agencies, all elements, move at his command, who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast, who in the beginning, said, "Let there be light, and there was light, and who is evermore able and...

...loved to look upon nature as the mirror upon which were reflected the glorious attributes of Him " who spake and it was done, who commanded and it stood fast." Abraham " sat in the tent door" at Mamre, and we can well conceive the delight with which the venerable...