Excerpt from Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects, Vol. 2 This is My covenant with them, saith the Lord: My Spirit that is in thee, and My words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. Isams lix. 21. The glory of Israel had departed, for 'the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no manifest vision 'the prophets prophesied false hood, and the priests clapped their hands, and the people loved such things.'2 The illuminations of the early days of Israel were gone, the visitations of the Spirit of God were few, and the messages of the word of the Lord were seldom heard; for 'truth had fallen down in. The streets' of Jerusalem, and equity could not come in.'3 The people of God were without guide and without teacher. They wandered out of the way of the Lord: Jerusalem was full of blood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.