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BRIEF NARRATIVES OF REAL LIFE.

EDITED BY

THE REV. CHARLES CARUS WILSON, M.A.,

VICAR OF BASTRY, KENT.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, 54, FLEET STREET.

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PREFACE.

THE intelligent reader of the Old Testament will have remarked the very frequent recurrence of the expression, “Mercy and Truth." It would seem to have been a favourite term of the Old Testament saints, implying their sense of God's innate lovingkindness, and faithfulness to his promises. The first person who appears to have made use of it was Abraham's pious servant, Eliezer, who, at his interview with Rebekah, at the well at Nahor, said to her, “Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and truth” (Gen. xxiv. 27). Subsequently, we find Jacob making use of it, in the course of his earnest prayer at Mahanaim: “I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth, which Thou hast showed unto Thy servant” (Gen. xxxii. 10, and compare with Gen. xxviii. 15). And, to pass over other occasions of its use in the intervening books of the Old Testament, we find the expression repeatedly in the mouth of David, e. g., "Thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and Thy truth unto the clouds" (Ps. lvii. 10). "O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him" (Ps. lxi. 7). “Mercy and truth shall go before Thy face" (Ps. lxxxix. 14).

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