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as it was possible, and in whose life the hope
6f the grandmother was from a variety of circum-
stances almost bound up. Yes, her days also were
as grass, and as a flower of the field. In the morn-
ing she was flourishing and growing uip; but in the
evening she was cut down and withered.
  In this sacred spot, she also was publickly and
solemnly devoted to God, by her grandmother. Noor
was she merely devoted in form to God. Under the
same grandmother's care, she was, so far as reli-
gious instruction, and religious discipline, and the
prayer of faith could go, brought tip in the nurture
and admonition of the Lord. And while calculations
were made, that she was to be an ornament and
a blessing to her ox n generation, and to the gen-
eration which isyet to be born, she was wvatched o-
ver and trained as an immortal being, and as an im-
mortal being who might soon be in eternity. And
here, as in the former case, the ground of our hope,
the only source of our comfort, is in the plain and
express declaration of Him who cannot lie. The
mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto
children's children. "As for mne, this is my covenant
with them, saith Jehovah, iny Spirit that is upon thee,
and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall
not depart out of thy month, nor out of the mouth
of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's
seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth evert for ever."
Is. lix. 21.
   He who spared not his own Son, but delivered him
nip for us all, how shall he not with him als) freely