...therefore have I set my face like a flint, and know that I shall not be ashamed." Here is immoveable i'aith in the eternal love of God, expressed even in the...the words, " He was oppressed, and he was afflicted; yet he opened not his mouth; he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers...

...blood. She knew also that her Redeemer was set before us as an example of patience, when she heard the words, — " He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,...sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." Both aged and young christians, and even children, take great delight in our Saviour's...

...how powerless should be any provocation to stir them up when we turn our thoughts to these wondrous words: — "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted;...sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth," Isaiah liii. Did that spotless Lamb — that holy, harmless, Jesus — bear all indignities...

...manner we fmd almost literally in him, on the testimony of his own words, the prototype of those sublime words : " He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,...sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth." Jeremiah says, speakiug of the cruel persecutions which he had to endure from the citizens...