20–33. These verses are introduced with great beauty after the former. Having in some measure prepared the heart for receiving instruction, by turning up the fallow ground, to sow in righteousness. Christ is here introduced in his gracious office, as calling upon the sinner, wounded under a sense of sin, to look unto him and to be saved. Hosea, 10:12. Isaiah, 45:22. I do not think it necessary to detain the Reader with a long commentary on the several parts of this divine sermon; for if (as I pray
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