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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE GARDEN OF THE FORGETFUL. field of the slothful, with its luxuriant harvest of nettles and thorns, has long been immortalized by the writings of Solomon, to whom, indeed, it formed a rich source of instruction, and illumined by his peerless wisdom, it has formed a beacon of warning for all succeeding generations. But mankind is equally indebted to that sweet prophet-poet Isaiah for the following remarkable and vivid description of the Garden of the Forgetful: Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the Bock of thy strength, therefore shalt thouplant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips. In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish; but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow (Isa. xvii. 10, 11). In these words the prophet is doubtless referring to the sin of the Israelites in forgetting the goodness of their God, who had been their salvation times without number, and going after false gods, and forming sinful alliances with heathen nations. Thus they sowed their gardens with idolatrous plants, and set many strange slips procured from Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon, of which they were exceedingly proud; but Isaiah solemnly warned them, that although their gardens may appear to flourish, and yield them joy for a time, yet the harvest, instead of being, as was usually the case, a season of rejoicing, should be a day of grief and of desperate sorrow. This prophecy was found strictly true when the Israelites were carried away captive into strange lands by the idolatrous nations, whose abominations they had copied, and whose alliances they had sought, while their own country, of which they had once been so proud, became a sc...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217397117
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217397115
  • Publisher Date: 06 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 64 gr


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