CHAPTER xm. CHAPTER XI. Jnatiflt',11.tion of the Ways of God to A Rich Display of God's Mercy, Love, Man ... .•,••- _405 and Long-suffering 336 lllan'a Marvellous Pervuraity _and ~od's. The Ingratitude of Isra.el a11d its Restorative lllercy. ... , : 408 Punishment • • 338 The Humiliations '\Vl'Qugbt by tbe Si!l11; , ., G,lled out of Egypt 342 of Israel ... ,, ,.,-.> ' 411 Crowned with '!'ender Mel'Cies 11-13 Ephraim, Living and D8',d ,, , , .. ; _413 'l'he Magnet of Love 3H Ruin, Retribution, and rResu11rnct,ion,:,. ¾14 The Di,ine Goodness despised 316 .Tehovah the Destroyer of Death; - ... , _4;16 " Mercy se&.80DB Justice" ..• .1n· Self-Destruction ... ... .. , 4l7,42;1. The Tenderness -of Divine Discipline 319 " They sin more and more":;,, - -, - -41.8 The Attractiveness ·of God ... 350 Driven Chaff and Vanished Smoke:: ..•. 419 God's Yearning over Rebels H51 The Only Saviour... , , ... . , ,.. .419 '' When krael we.s a Child•• 35S Remembrance in the Wilderness- ,·,,,;. 420 Healing Grace unreoognized 353 Forgetting God .,. 420 " Cards of a Man"' 353 " Thy Help '' ... ,, , .• ,. r4-21 "How shall I give thee up? n 3M The Vanity of Earthly Kings., , ••• • 421 God and not Man ... 355 Redemption from. Death • ,,; - !·"·' ••• _,422 A Typical Portre.it of a People 855 Rebellion against .God - •• .- . ,422 Justice and Meroy in the Heart of The Life of the Wicked ,·.. ·'"" .4i:t God ... ·'356 Mercy in Beneficent Action and in Re- The Lies of a People 357 • tributive Displeasure 423 God';; Ea.rly Love for Israel 858 Sin the Destroyer, God the Restorer 424 Fatal Courses '860 Tj:ie. Great Conqueror of the Worl1.t-i,·' Di,ine Relentings 360 conquered ... - "'. _ ,•w. ~~5 Reverses of Fortune in Human :Life:,:,; .,4~5 CHAPTER XII. Be.al-Exaltation .... ,i.4~;~ Self-Exaltation 427 Reproof, Retrospect, and Exhortation 372 God-Exaltation ... • '.428 .. ;· 430 1
Extent of Israel's A)JOBtuy 378 Figure and Fact_ '.'; Reproofs and Remembra.ncera 379 ,Jacob an E:umple tD his Descendants 881 CHAPTER XIV. Three Painful Contrasts 383 ,, Pre,ailing with God 384 The Fallen invited to return , ••. 434 Feeding on Wind .. . 886 The Happy Result of Israel's Peru- . Power with God .. . 387,393 tence and the Merciful Response tp - '· Turn thou to thy God" 387 lsmel's Prayer ... 48~ "Wait on thy God" 888 A Call to Understanding 442 Happiness in Reserve 388 Retlllll"to God : its Beginnings 442 Visions and Bimilitudes 389 Return to God : its Immediate ~~ects 444 The Ministry of Prophets 389 Return to God : its Ulti.mat,e ~snlts 445 Worthless Soul-Food 389 The Epilogne 446 Genuint Hume.n Goodn688 ... 390· God's Message to the Prodigal ••• 448 Fortunes badly used, badly made, a~d. The Heavenly Dewfall .. ,,. ,, ; ~•• 4;~0 badly tuded 391 The Bede wed Church •.,,,, _ .,. , ,,, -_ :l~l God's Method io teaching the Great Counsels to JrcSinful rn, ,II ' J . . 1,. 45,3 TCA,cl.ttrs of the W odd ... 392 Th\l Supplication aiid t),ie Vow , .,. 453 INDEX. " TJl'-119 •AOJI! TRIIHB PAGR
•• The Fatherless flncleth Mercy" 454 God and his Reformed People 458 Grnolous Assurances 454 God's Ways 458 N ationnl Proeperlly 455 The Prayer of the Penitent 459 Iclolntry abjured ... 456 God's Response to the Penitent 460 Wisdom and RighteoueneBB 456 The Leason of the Book 462 Repente.noe, or Reformation 457