The Morning of Spiritual Youth Improved, in the Prospect of Old Age and Its Infirmities: Being a Literal and Spiritual Paraphrase on the Twelfth Chapter of Ecclesiastes. In a Series of Letters.Church, J. (John)
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The Morning of Spiritual Youth Improved, in the Prospect of Old Age and Its Infirmities: Being a Literal and Spiritual Paraphrase on the Twelfth Chapter of Ecclesiastes. In a Series of Letters.
Church, J. (John)
Bible. Ecclesiastes -- Commentaries
Of the same opinion was the late Mr. Huntington; see his “Light shining
in Darkness;” on the 110th _Psalm_. “The youth which is to spring from
the womb and is to be numerous as the drops of the dew, seem to _be_ a
time yet to come; when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the
earth—when a nation shall be born at once—when a little one shall become
a thousand—and when the Lord’s family will consist of strong men in the
faith; who are called youth; instead of thy fathers, shall be thy
children, whom thou mayest make Princes in the earth;” this must be when
the greatest kingdom under the whole heavens shall be given to the saints
of the most high, and they shall take it, and possess it, for
Jesus shall reign where’er the Sun
Does his successive journies run.
The truly excellent Dr. Hawker reads this passage in reference to the
heavenly extraction of the Lord’s people, to shew, That sovereign grace
will give to Christ an abundance of souls, like the dew drops; so
numerous as to be perfectly incalculable: “And they shall come of
heavenly extraction, as the dew from God, _being born not of the will of
the flesh_, _but of God_; and unperceived, unnoticed, and unknown, as the
silent drops of the morn; _for the kingdom of God cometh not by
observation_: and as they are begotten like the dew, without the aid of
man, so also shall they be preserved by the same predisposing cause,
without man’s descent.—_Not by might or by power_, _but by my spirit_,
_saith the Lord of Hosts_.” Thus the youth to whom Solomon writes are
the spiritual seed of God, and not to mere carnal worldly youth, who are
destitute of the knowledge of God. Dear _Amicus_, adieu—Grace and peace
be with you.
I remain, your’s in the Sinner’s friend,
[Picture: Signature: J. C.]
_LETTER II_.
TO AMICUS.
_Lambeth_, 1814.
BELOVED FRIEND,
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