...attended with the unction of the Holy Ghost, we are sure good is being done ; for Jehovah hath said, " He loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." Mr. Heap has taken for his text, Revelations xiv. C. " And I saw another angel fly in the midst of...

...being denounced and pursued by his vengeance. " The Lord," saith the sweet singer of Israel, " The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things arc spoken of thee, O city of God. — For the Lord hath chosen Zion, he hath desired...

...embodies the feeling we have sought to express. " His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. I will make mention of Rahab, and Babylon,...

...consequent to it." A psalm of the sons of Korah. 1 HER foundations are upon the holy mountains ; 3 Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion, More than all the dwellings of Jacob. Q 3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God ! 4 " I name Egypt and Babylon amongst my worshippers...

...greatly that ye shall never enter within her walls. " His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. I will make mention of Ruhab, and Babylon, to them...

...less power, in the exercises of private religion, than in the service of the sanctuary. For the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Next to the Holy Spirit, the ministry of the word is our Redeemer's principal ascensiongift ; a standing...

...complacency God doth differently take in the solemnities of his own worship, (psalm, 87. ^.) " The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob." He is more honoured and glorified by the public solemnities of worship ; and therefore doth take more...

...Moriah, on which the temple was built) ; as in Psalm Ixxxvii. 2, where it is stated that " the Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." The temple and the courts are called Zion, (Psalm Ixv. 1 ; Ixxxiv. 7 ; Isaiah ii. 3, &c.) ; or, by...

...the land of Palestine, and the city of Jerusalem, of which the Psalmist says, Ps. 87. 2. ' The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.' " But the most interesting conquest," says the historian, " of the Seljukian Turks, was that of Jerusalem,...

...least restrained by the want of public ordinances. Doubtless they are of infinite value; for " God loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob : " but in every house, and in every heart, is an altar to the Lord, from whence the sacrifices of...