...Grace visits households and visits schools, but chiefly in churches does God display his saving power. He "loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." « His mercy visits every house That pay their night and morning vims ; But makes a more delightful...

...heard, and delivered him out of all his distresses." Public ordinances the Lord especially owns. " He loves the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob." Many a poor, heartless, hopeless pilgrim, has found strength in worships — God in the sanctuary....

...is there." God is more graciously present in the evangelical institutions than in the legal ; lie " loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob" (Ps. lxxxvii. 2) ; his evangelical law and worship which was to go forth from Son, as the other did...

...Lord is there." God is more graciously present in the evangelical institutions than in the legal ; he " loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob" (Ps. Ixxxvii. 2) ; his evangelical law and worship which was to go forth from Zion, as the other did...

...fearers of the Lord have always felt a desire after, and a delight in, public ordinances. The Lord loved the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob ; and accordingly " thither the tribes went up to Israel's testimony, to give thanks to the name of the Lord....

...virtues of the Christian life in it. But it is said that, although He loves the dwellings of Jacob, yet He loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob ; that nothing in the dwellings of Jacob so much attracts his attention as the people of God connected...

...heavenly Father are only to be realized when they are assembled together in his house; for He "loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob," and he brings his children to his holy mountain, and makes them joyful in the house of prayer, as it is...

...and kneel before the Lord our maker. — Ps. xcv. Let us pray. INTRODUCTORY PRAYER. OGOD, who lovest the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob, and hast commanded us not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together, be merciful to us, we pray thee,...

...the institutions of the Church of Christ. They are divine ; hence it is written, " The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob."* And " the Lord shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this (and that) man was born there. "f...

...this subject. The Lord Himself is said to love Mount Zion. Psalm Ixxxvii. 2, — " The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." And too in Psalm Ixxviii. 68, — " But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved." So, when...