...way, and live : Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel. Rent your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God : VOL. i. x for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him...

...the same strain : " Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me, with all your heart — and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn...Lord your God ; for he is gracious and merciful." Ail the inspired prophets, agreeably to the divine direction, exhorted sinners to change their hearts,...

...damnation. Among the sentences which open the service of our church, we find this divine command : ' Rend your heart, and not your garments ; and turn unto the Lord your God,' &c., but how few people obey it after hearing it a thousand times ! God yesterday, for the first time,...

...power. 6. Believers,—Believe and profit—shew it—tell of the, &c. OUTLINE XXIX. Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: For fie is gracious and merciful, sloio to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.—JOEL...

...ashes under him ? Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD ? JOEL, ii. 12, 13 : Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting,...not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God. *RuTH, iii. 3 : Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee. DAN. x. 3 :...

...Joel ii. 12, 13. Therefore, also now, sailh the Lord, Turn ye even to me with alt your heart, and.with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning ; and...the Lord, your God: for he is gracious and merciful. — 1 Cor. vii. 5. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consentr for a time, that ye may...

...shall notice it very briefly. " The day of the Lord is great and very terrible ; and who can abide it? Therefore, also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even...Lord your God : for he is gracious, and merciful, slaw to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil," (verse 1 1 — 18.) " And it...

...we have rebelled against him."—" The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit."—" Rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful." Yet, that no man may presume upon his own righteousness, it is plainly declared, that all are sinners...

...Only those which, springing out of a true faith, J are done according to the law of God, k viii. 13. Rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God. Joel ii. 13. Come, and let us return unto the Lord, for he hath torn, and he will heal us ; he hath...

...Epistle. Joel ii. 12. TIJKN" ye even to me, saith the Ijord, with all your heart, and with fastinjr, and with weeping, and with mourning. And rend your...your God : for he is gracious and merciful, slow to mtger, and of great kindness, and rcpenteth him of the evil. Who knoweth if he will return, and ref)enl,...