Yea, thou excell'st in rich attire The lamp that lights the globe Thy sparkling garment heav'ns admire, Thy husband is thy robe. This raiment never waxes old, 'Tis always new and clean: From summer-heat and winter-cold, Thy husband can thee screen. All who the name of worthies bore, Since Adam was undrest, No worth acquir'd, but as they wore Thy husband's purple vest. This linen fine can beautify The soul with sin begirt. 0 bless his name, that e'er on thee Thy husband spread his skirt. Are dunghills decked with flow'ry glore, Which Solomon's outvie: : Sure thine is infinitely more, Thy husband decks the sky. Thy hands could never work the dress, By grace alone thou'rt gay. Grace vents and reigns through righteousness, Thy husband's bright array. To spin thy robe no more dost need Than lilies toil for theirs; Out of his bowels ev'ry thread Thy husband thine prepares. Ralph Erskine |
Hosea 4:6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
In a short time there will (we have reason to fear) remain but two kinds of persons among us, either those who think not at all, or those whose imaginations are active indeed, but continually evil. Of these latter it may be said, "Their foolish heart was darkened." Of the principles, I do not say of the detail, of political science, a sound theology is the only sure and steady basis. Now we trace the operations by which a destruction so extended in its consequences has been effected. The master-spring of every principle which can permanently secure the stability of a people is the fear and knowledge of Almighty God. The first operation of a principle of atheism, and perhaps one of the most formidable in its consequences, is that which leads political men to conceive of Christianity as a mere auxiliary to the State. Religion was not instituted (in the Divine council I mean) for the purpose of society and government, but society and government for the purposes of religion. As a...
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