The Open Secret; Or, the Bible Explaining Itself

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General Books, 2013 - 90 pages
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... BIBLE READINGS. IX. SUBJECT--GOD AS OUR MOTHER. "Love divine, of such great loving. Only mothers know the cost; Cost of love, that, all love passing, Gave itself to save the lost!" Foundation Text.--As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem."--Isa. 66:13. We all know how a mother comforts her children, and have most of us tasted the sweetness of this comforting. Notice then, the "as" and "so" in this declaration, and accept the Divine Comforter and the heavenly comfort. "Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted His people, and will have mercy on His afflicted."--Isa. 49:13. "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass."--Isa. 61:12. "For the Lord shall comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make all her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody."--Isa. 51:3. "Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted His people, He hath redeemed Jerusalem."--Isa. 52:9. God is called the "God of all comfort." "Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort, wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."--2 Cor. 1:3-4. The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all...

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