Believe that for the heathen, as for us, he is able to do exceedingly
and abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think; and believe too,
that if we do ask, we do not ask in vain; that this collect which has
gone up every Good Friday for centuries past, from millions of holy
hearts throughout the world, has not gone up unheard; that it will be
answered--we know not how--but answered still; and that to Jew and
Turk, Heathen and Heretic, this day will prove hereafter to have
been, what it is to us, Good Friday.
SERMON VI.--FALSE CIVILIZATION
JEREMIAH xxxv. 19.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of
Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Let us think a while this morning what this text has to do with us;
and why this strange story of the Rechabites is written for our
instruction, in the pages of Holy Scripture.
Let us take the story as it stands, and search the Scriptures simply
for it. For the Bible will surely tell its own story best, and teach
its own lesson best.
These Rechabites, who were they? Or, indeed we may ask--Who are
they? For they are said to exist still.
They were not Israelites, but wild Arabs, a branch of the Kenite
tribe, which claimed--at least its chiefs--to be descended from
Abraham, by his wife Keturah.
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