...The same friend said, " Your sufferings seem to be very great," but he instantly said, " Hush ! — ' He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth.'" It was with considerable difficulty he finished the quotation, and his pains seemed to...

...his precious blood to atone for guilt. Christ has done all this for his elect. Hence it is said, " He was led as a Lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep...shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." And Peter says, " He bare our sins in his own body on the tree." And Paul says, "He obtained eternal redemption...

...there was One who bore a weight of woe, to which your tríala are as nothing. He bore all patiently. ' He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.' While on earth, although the 'foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests,' he...

...did Jesus do ? We read nothing of an expression that he uttered, of a remonstrance that he made. " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." "Reviled, he reviled not again." Truly this was the Son of God. We then read that " they...

...I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished ?' — ' who r of all good, and the ant gives lessons of timely diligence. Country Christians are exposed to his mouth?' In this spirit his martyred followers overcame by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word...

...Everlasting Father. And yet that he should be a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief—that he should be led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. He was to be numbered with transgressors, yet he did no sin, neither was guile found in...

...testimony of false witnesses condemned him to be crucified, he uttered not a single revengeful word. "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep...shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." And when afflicted with the bitterest pains of death, so far was he from the spirit of revenge, that he...

...testimony of false witnesses condemned him to be crucified, he uttered not a single revengeful word. "He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep...shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." And when afflicted with the bitterest pains of death, so far was he from the spirit of revenge, that he...

...that has rejected Christ, and uses the world's power to enforce her rights and avenge her wrongs ? " He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep...shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." And the church, as we have seen, is the bride, the Lamli's wife. And think of the perfect grace in which...

...; to incredulous fiienils; to cruel enemies; to weariness, want, and pain. Think how He saved them. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He opened not His mouth. He saved them by dying for them; anything short of this would have been insufficient. "...