...lies, by men who are the decided enemies, while professing to be the friends of the Lord Jesus. " I am, my dear friend, affectionately yours, "JOHN AIKMAN."...extract from Willison's Balm of Gilead, a book published about the year 1740, to which Mr. Newton referred, p. 9. " Before antichrist's fall, one of the ten...

...throes, cannot make an inroad upon its invulnerable nature, based as it is upon the wills and shnlli of Him, whose counsel shall stand, and who will do all his pleasure, and whose pleasure centres in Him, who is his servant, and whose name is the BRANCH. In other words,...

...either in man's salvation or damnation. But how that glory will be finally displayed we must leave with Him " whose counsel shall stand, and who will do all his pleasure." Another sentiment to which you, my dear Sir, objected, and which I advanced in the same discourse,...

...composed, and we have submitted to the mysterious and painful, yet wise and gracious dispensations of him, whose "counsel shall stand, and who will do all his pleasure.'' We have learned to "be still, and know that he is God." Yea, sometimes we have rejoiced in tribulation...

...said, " I will, be thou clean." " The Soa quickeneth whom he will." Thus Jesus identified himself with him, " whose counsel shall stand, and who will do all his pleasure." 3. Christ gave the power of working miracles to others. " When he ascended up on high, he gave gifts...

...said, " I will, be thou clean." " The Son quickeneth whom he will." Thus Jesus identified himself with him, " whose counsel shall stand, and who will do all his pleasure." 3. Christ gave the power of working miracles to others. " When he ascended up on high, he gave gifts...

...election and consequent preservation, when so undeserving of so marked a display of the boundless lore of Him, whose counsel shall stand, and who will do all His pleasure; " Yea, God the Lord, that changeth not, Nor alters His decrees ; But gives to every one the lot That...

...development of the divine purposes, — the wondrous working of Him who can make "the wrath of man to praise Him," whose "counsel shall stand, and who will -do all His pleasure," though " the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing." Let Biography illustrate the transforming...

...was to the person before him ; and that in uttering it, he merely declared the will and determination of Him " whose counsel shall stand, and who will do all His pleasure." The whole transaction is a striking proof of what the Apostle says, " The prophecy of old time came...

...was to the person before him ; and that in uttering it, he merely declared the will and determination of Him " whose counsel shall stand, and who will do all His pleasure." The whole transaction is a striking proof of what the Apostle says, " The prophecy of old time came...