LORD JESUS CHRIST - The Refuge of my Soul
“ Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land which the L ORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither” -D EUTERONOMY 19:3 [KJV] Sweet thought to my soul, that He who is the Refuge is also the way to every poor soul-slayer, who hath murdered his own soul by sin. And who, my soul, could prepare thee this way, but God thy Father, who gave both Jesus for the way, and Jesus for the refuge? And how hath God the Spirit pointed to the way, cast up and prepared it, by taking up the stumbling-blocks out of the way, as God saith of His people? I SAIAH 57:14 Is it not God the Holy Ghost that sets Jesus up, as Moses did the serpent; points to His person, to His blood, to His righteousness, as the Sanctuary and the City of Refuge to every poor sinner that is the manslayer of his own soul? And if what the Jews have said be true, that magistrates once a year made it their duty to have the roads examined, lest ...