Earnest appeals : in a series of letters, on subjects relating to the present and eternal happiness of the soul.

Date:
1854
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    in the temple, and to thank and praise the Lord; * the promises to regard the prayers offered in the tem- ple, f and to come and bless Israel in all places where he should record his name; X—houses of God, or assemblies of God, § whether they denote schools of prophets, or places where men at a distance from Jerusalem might meet for religious purposes;— like the proseuchoe, || or synagogues, (the name of which denoted public assemblies,) though the date of these may be in Ezra’s time ;—the words of God by Isaiah, afterwards used by Christ when he cleansed the temple, “ Mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people : ” these are among the proofs that men assembled for the service of God, and that it was his Avill. The neglect of the duty at any period, be that period ever so long, is not a proof of the absence of the command, but of the sinful way in which it was disregarded; as in the case of the Israelites omitting the rite of circumcision for forty years, when passing through the wilderness. What is named of Ezra, Asa, and Jehoshaphat, shoAvs the desire to return to duty; and the mention in the days of Asa, that there was ^‘no teaching priest,” plainly implies the neglect of positive duty on the part of that order. (Neh. viii. 4-13. 2 Chron. xv. S; xvii. 7-9.) Christ and his apostles, by their practice, strongly add their testimony to the important duty before us. Of Christ, we read that he went, as Ms custom was, into the synagogue at Nazareth, where he had been » 1 Chron. xxiii. 30; xv. 1-3, &c. + 2 Chron. vii. 15. Isa. Ivi. 7. J Exod. XX. 24. § Psa. Ixxiv. 8. || Luke vi. 12. Acts xiii. 13-] fi.