"We
have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work
Thou didst in their days, in the times of old. How Thou didst drive
out the heathen with Thy hand, and plantedst them; how Thou didst
afflict the people, and cast them out. For
they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did
their own arm save them: but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the
light of Thy countenance, because Thou hadst a favour unto them."
-PSALM
44:1-3 [KJV]
It
is one of the best and strongest of all arguments, when pleading for
the renewals of divine love, to put the Lord in remembrance of past
mercies. It is as if we should say, Shall we despond now, when the
Lord hath blessed so often? Shall our hope fail when God’s mercies
fail not? Reader! think what an additional argument the church hath
now to bring on this ground, since God’s dear Son came down from
heaven.
-Gospel
report by preacher Robert Hawker (1753–1827 A.D.)
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