Our text this morning is found
in that Old Testament portion of Holy Scripture we read in
Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 54 and I want
to direct your attention for a while to the words that we
have here at verse 13. Isaiah 54 and verse 13. And all thy children shall be
taught of the Lord. and great shall be the peace
of thy children. Isaiah 54, 13. And all of thy
children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the
peace of thy children. And here, of course, we are reading
of God's teaching, one of the great promises of the New Covenant
and we see the word being fulfilled in the other portion that we
read there in that sixth chapter of John's Gospel where Christ
quotes the passage at verse 45, it is written in the prophets,
and they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that
hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me. this chapter as its fulfillment
in the New Testament and in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ. In the opening part of the chapter
we clearly see a prophecy of the calling of the Gentiles,
the first three verses certainly, leading up to what we are told
at verse 3. For thou shalt break forth on
the right hand and on the left, and thy seed shall inherit the
Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. What's being spoken of there
is the widespread in-gathering of the whole election of grace. And of course, Isaiah has much
to say with regards to the calling of the Gentiles. Turning back
to chapter 49 and verse six, He said, it is a right thing
that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee
for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation
unto the end of the world. For the gospel of the grace of
God is to go forth then unto the very ends of the earth. And again, when we look at the
opening verse of the chapter and what is said there, O sing
O barren thou that didst not bear break forth into singing
and cry aloud thou that didst not travail with child for more
are the children of the desolate than the children of the married
wife saith the Lord and we find Paul making some reference to
those words when he addresses the church or the churches of
the Galatians there in chapter 4 he speaks of the children of
Abraham the sons of Abraham Ishmael the son of the bond woman and
Isaac the son of the free woman and he makes use of these as
an allegory and what he is doing is dealing with the whole matter
of the gospel and the calling of the Gentiles again in Galatians
chapter 4 the whole passage there from verse 21 through 31 you
can read those words but look at what he says there towards
the end of that passage where he quotes from the opening words
of this chapter in Isaiah it is written Rejoice thou barren
that bear us not, break forth and cry thou that prevail us
not, for the desolate hath many more children than she which
hath a husband. Now we brethren, as Isaac was,
are the children of promise." The allegory that he is making
is that Israel is really identified strangely with Ishmael. They're
in bondage. But those who are in Christ,
They are the ones who are the true spiritual Israel. They,
like Isaac, are the sons of the promise. This 54th chapter is
a tremendous chapter then, in terms of how we are to understand
the gospel. It's so full of gospel truths. The whole passage really. Words
that we have, for example here, just previous to our text, verses
11 and 12, well they were afflicted. tossed with tempest, and not
comforted. Behold, I will lay thy stones
with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires, and
I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles,
and all thy borders of pleasant stones." And then we come to
those words that I have as a text, all thy children shall be taught
of the Lord. But you see those statements
that we have here in verses 11 and 12 are speaking really of
the New Jerusalem and it's that that we see right at the end
of the Scriptures there in the 21st chapter of the book of the
Revelation where John sees the New Jerusalem coming down from
God out of heaven. What does he say? Verse 10, He
carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain
and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending
out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. And the light
was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear
as crystal. Verse 18, the building of the
wall of it was of jasper. The city was pure gold like unto
clear glass, and the foundations of the wall of the city were
garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation
was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth
an emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh
chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth a topaz, the 10th,
the Chrysoprises, the 11th and Jacinth, the 12th and Amethyst,
the 12 Gates or 12 Pearls, he's describing something of the glories
of the New Jerusalem which is representative of the glorified
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and those are the very things
that are being spoken of in prophecy as I said here in verses 11 and
12 just previous to the words that we have this morning for
our text. These marks really of those who are the true children
of God. Who are they? Well it tells us
all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be
the peace of thy children. So I want us to try to understand
something of the manner of God's dealings and God's teachings
of his children. And what we have here in the
first place is God's teachings in the Covenant. The whole context
is that of the New Covenant, the promise of that New Covenant. And it's not only that we have
these things declared in the prophecy of Isaiah, but that's
the message really of all the prophets. Ultimately, they all
come to speak of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He's coming. and
the blessed consequence of that coming and all that he has accomplished
by the work that the Father had committed to him in that eternal
covenant. You can think of the language
that we have there in the book of Jeremiah. We often refer to
those words in chapter 31. In verse 31, here is the promise
of the new covenant. Behold, The days come, saith
the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah, not according to the covenant
that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by
the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant
they break, although I was an husband unto them, saith the
Lord. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house
of Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my Lord
in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be
there God and they shall be my people this is the teaching of
God they shall teach no more every man his neighbor and every
man his brother saying no the Lord for they shall all know
me from the least of them unto the greatest of them says the
Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember
their sin no more and we know that those words clearly belong
to the Lord Jesus Christ because they're quoted in the epistle
to the Hebrews that very passage that we've just read is there
in Hebrews 8 verse 8 following it's all fulfilled clearly in
the Lord Jesus Christ the promise of the covenant it has its fulfillment
in Christ, the promise of the covenant, it's all accomplished
by the Lord Jesus Christ. And those words, those words
that we read there in that sixth chapter of John, no man, he says,
can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me draw him.
It is written in the prophets. They shall be all taught of God.
Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the
Father cometh unto me. This is the teaching of the New
Covenant. All the promises of God in the
Lord Jesus Christ, they are yea, and they are amen. They must
have their accomplishment. And so we have not only the promise,
the promise of the New Covenant, but we have the performance of
that covenant. And that's what we're to understand
when we read of the children being taught of the Lord. As
Joseph Hart says in that wonderful introduction to his hymns, only
he that made the world can make a Christian. A Christian is a new creation,
a new creature in the Lord Jesus Christ. And there we see in Scripture
the performance of that that is being promised in this new
covenant. We see it in the course of the
ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ with his own disciples. When
Peter makes his great confession there at Caesarea Philippi, recorded
in Matthew 16, and confesses that Jesus of Nazareth is the
Christ, the Son of the Living God, you remember the response
of the Lord, Blessed art thou, O blessed art thou, Simon son
of Jonah, Simon bar Jonah, flesh and blood hath not revealed it
unto them, but my Father which is in heaven. And as it was with
Peter, so we know it was also the same with regards to Saul
who became poor, that man who was such an arch persecutor of
the followers of the Lord Jesus, he was not one of those who was
a disciple of the Lord during the days of his ministry here
upon the earth. But now, as the Gospel goes forth
after the day of Pentecost, We see a remarkable work of the
Spirit in the soul of that man, that persecutor, that Pharisee,
that son of a Pharisee, that man who was living the life of
a Pharisee. And what does Paul say writing to the Galatians?
When he pleased God. When he pleased God who separated
me from my mother's womb to call me by His grace, I consulted
not with flesh and blood. It was the sovereign work of
God in the soul of that man. Now we know that this is that
special work of the Holy Spirit in the outworking of the Covenant. In that Covenant of Redemption,
that Covenant of Christ, we see all the work of God, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit. We see the Father there as that
one who makes choice of a people. The election of Christ and that
chosen in His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus, and in the fullness
of the time the Son is sent to accomplish that great work of
their redemption. And so the salvation is finished
when Christ makes that great sin-atoning sacrifice upon the
cross at Calvary. But then there must be that application. And that is the peculiar, the
special work of God the Holy Spirit in the outworking of the
covenant. John says, doesn't he there in
that second chapter of his first general epistle writing to Christians,
you have an unction. You have an unction from the
Holy One and you know all things. And he goes on in that chapter
to say somewhat more later in the 27th verse the words that we have first
in verse 20 that I just referred to you have an unction from the
Holy One and you know all things but then at verse 27 he speaks
again of that unction although it's translated with the word
anointing it's the same word really in verse 27 as in verse
20 the anointing, the unction which have received of him abideth
in you and ye need not that any man teach you But as the same
anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is
no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."
Oh, there's an emphasis, isn't there, on the necessity of that
teaching of the Holy Spirit. Recently we were looking at the
Day of Pentecost, when that Day of Pentecost was fully come in
Acts 2, and we looked also at the Gentile Pentecost in Acts
10 when we have Peter preaching in the house of Cornelius and
I said then every believer has to experience that Pentecost
we have to know a Pentecost in our own souls the anointing of
the spirits that is the teaching of God this is how God teaches
his people and what does the spirit do? well he comes as that
one who is a reprover and a convincer when the Lord Jesus is speaking
of him and he's coming in those chapters, those familiar chapters
in John. John 16 at verse 8, when he is
come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and
of judgment, of sin, because he believed not on me. of righteousness,
because I go to the Father, and you see me no more, of judgment,
because the Prince of this world is judged." It's a spirit's work
to bring conviction into the soul, to reprove the sinner.
But not only that, the Lord goes on in that same 16th chapter
to speak of him as that one who comes to glorify Christ. And
how does he glorify Christ? Why, the Savior says, he will
take of mine and He'll show it unto you. That remarkable ministry
of God, God the Holy Ghost, equal with the Father, equal with the
Son, and yet that remarkable ministry in the outworking of
the Covenant. He doesn't speak of Himself,
doesn't draw attention to Himself. He is God and yet such a self-effacing
ministry. He comes as the Spirit of Christ.
He shall testify of me, says Christ. Oh, friends, do we know
that? Have we received that blessed
ministry? Again, the Apostle speaks of
the importance of such a ministry there in those words that we
have in the second chapter of 1 Corinthians. And there at verse 12, Now we
have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God, which things also we speak, not in the words
which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth,
comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for their foolishness
unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned." It's nothing of self, is it? Nothing of the natural
man. It's all of the Spirit of God. You see, what John says
there in that second chapter of his first epistle isn't the
Apostle Paul saying exactly the same. How these apostles speak
with one voice concerning the why of salvation, the natural
man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. Oh, they
are so foolish. They don't understand these things.
They cannot comprehend these things. Oh, if anyone is to be
truly the Lord, they must know that blessed teaching that comes
by God, and comes especially by God the Holy Spirit. Here then we have this great
promise, the promise of the Covenant.
All thy children shall be taught of the Lord. And it's clearly
to be understood in terms of the Covenant, because of course
it's the Covenant name that we have here. As we see in the text,
it's LORD in capital letters. That is the Great Jehovah, the
I AM THAT I AM, the God of the Covenant, Father, Son and Holy
Ghost. But as we have the promise of
God's teaching and then we see that promise being accomplished
and performed certainly in this day of grace in which we're living.
In the second part of the verse we have mention of God's peace. Great shall be the peace of thy
children. And this is really the consequence
of the teaching. Where there is that teaching,
where there is that blessed sovereign ministry of God the Holy Spirit,
there will be some evidence. And then we have to examine ourselves
and prove ourselves and know ourselves. Do we have this evidence
that follows the teaching of the Spirit of God? They shall
be all taught of God and great shall be the peace. of thy children. Now, before that peace can be
truly known, surely we have to recognize there must be another
experience. There must be an experience of
conviction, of conflict. There must be some understanding,
some realization of what we are, of where we are. there must be
that sense of our sins remember in the book of Job as we come
to the end of that book we read of that character called Elijah
in the former part we have the three friends who come to Job
at their poor comforters they make their speeches, he answers
and we have all those cycles of speeches and then this man
appears later in life and makes a very long speech and says some
remarkable things and amongst them he says this Job 36.22 Behold
God exalteth by his power who teacheth like him who teacheth
like him and the remarkable thing of course in the book of Job
is that all that is happening to Job is very much under the
sovereign hand of God and that's evident from the beginning because
even Satan is no free agent and that in those first two chapters
we see Satan coming before the Lord God to receive permission as it were
God is not the author of sin, there's a mystery in the book
of Job we know that God cannot be tempted by evil, and God himself
tempteth no man. And yet, we have to recognize
that Satan is subject to the Lord God, he's no free agent.
And so, what is happening in that book, the mysterious ways
of the Lord in his dealings, this is what Elihu is speaking
of, surely. None teach like God teaches. And what was Job taught? He was
ultimately taught much. He was certainly taught much
concerning himself. When we come to the end of the
book, remember the language that we have there in chapter 42,
when he says, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear,
but now mine eyes seethe. Wherefore I abhor myself, and
repent in dust and ashes. He was taught something concerning
himself by God's dealings with him. Behold,
God exalteth by his power. Who teacheth like him? But I
want to speak of three consequences of God's teaching. If we know
anything of God's teaching, in some measure we must enter into
these three aspects. First of all, there will of course
be that conviction of sin. As I said before, before peace
can be really enjoyed in the soul of man who is in a state
of sinful rebellion against God, he must be brought to see what
he is and where he is. And that is the ministry of the
Lord of God. That is the point and purpose
of the Lord of God. We know that what things soever
the Law saith, it saith to them who are under the Law, that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty before
God. Therefore by the deeds of the
Law shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by the Law
is the knowledge of sin. The Law work, the Law work. The Lord is given not as that
way whereby a man can save himself, by a life of obedience to those
commandments. Alas, the Lord is spiritual. But what are we? We're carnal.
We are but natural men. We're the children of Adam and
Eve. And we've partaken of that sinful
nature that was theirs after they transgressed. and disobey
the commandment of God. And if a man should keep the
whole law, James says, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty
of all. And that law, it's a spiritual
law, it doesn't just concern our outward actions or the words
that we speak, it has to do with the very thoughts and intents
of our hearts. If you look at a woman and you're
lost after her, you're committing adultery. If you're angry with
a man, there's no just cause, you're a murderer. How the Lord
Jesus expounds the true nature, the spiritual nature of that
Holy Lord of God. Every mouth he stops. All the
world is brought in guilty before God. It's that ministry of condemnation,
it's that ministry of death. And yet, it serves the gospel
ultimately or it serves the gospel when the Lord Jesus comes and
exercises his own ministry what does he say? they that are whole
have no need of a physician but they that are sick I came not
to call the righteous but sinners to repentance or the ministry
of the Lord Jesus Christ it's a ministry for the sinner those poor sin sick souls who
feel they have need not just of a physician really but more
than that they have need of one who is a great saviour and able
to save them from the uttermost to the uttermost and the Lord
is anointed to that very end He is the anointed one, He is
the Messiah, He is the Christ there's a lovely verse earlier
here in in this remarkable book of the prophets. It's so full
of gospel, isn't it? I'm sure you're aware of that,
you've read through it. Those great promises, as I said
here in chapter 54, the whole chapter can only be understood
really and rightly in terms of what we have in the New Testament.
But turning back to chapter 10, and words that we find there
at verse 27, And say, when it opens, it shall
come to pass in that day. There's a clue. What is that
day? It's the last day. It's the day of grace. It shall
come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away
from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck, and the
yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. It's all because
of the anointing. That's Christ. That's Christ. He is the Anointed One. But who
makes that Anointed One so real to us? Well, the Spirit of Christ. You have an unction from the
Holy One. We need the Spirit Himself to
come and and make that application of the Word of God. What is it
to gather? We can gather like this, maybe
you've done it all your days. Brought up to attend chapel,
we come, we hear the Word of God, but what effect does it
have upon us? How does it... How does it change us? Can only
do that where there is that blessed ministry of the Spirit. The Spirit
must come in the words. The Spirit first gave the Word. Holy men, they spoke as they
were moved by the Spirit. All Scripture is given by inspiration
of God. It's the breathings of God. It's
the breath of God. And the Spirit, He proceeds from
the Father and the Son. But we need that selfsame Spirit
to come in the ministry, in the preaching of the Word, and to
make the Word lively, living in our souls, to make that blessed
application. Oh, and when he comes to reveal
the things of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he comes really
as the Spirit of Christ. Remember, laws and terrors do
but harden all the while they work alone, but a sense of blood-bought
pardon soon dissolves the heart of stone. I think there's so
much truth in those lines from Joseph Hart's hymn. It's not
just conviction under the law, it's when we see the Lord Jesus
Christ and the sufferings that He endured for sinners. And again,
we have it in prophecy, that remarkable, that long 16th chapter
in the book of Ezekiel. And as we come to the end of
that book or that chapter, Verse 62, God says, I will establish
My covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.
That's God's teaching when He comes to establish His covenant.
I will establish My covenant with thee, and thou shalt know
that I am the Lord. I will, He says. Thou shalt,
that thou mayest remember and be confounded. And never open
thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I am pacified
toward thee, for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord. Oh,
it's not just the Lord that closes, shuts the mouths of the sinners,
but here is graciousness. Never open thy mouth any more,
why? Because of thy shame, when I am pacified, when I'm at peace
with thee. It's the Spirit coming as the
Spirit of Christ. It is written in the Prophets,
they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath
heard and have learned of the Father cometh unto me. Oh, there's a coming. There's
a coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. And what is it to come to the
Lord Jesus Christ? What is it to come? But it is
the same as believing. Coming and believing are one
and the same thing. Again in that portion we were
reading in John 6, verse 35, he says, I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger, and he that believeth in me shall never thirst. There
we have parallel statements. Clearly, coming is equivalent
to believing. He that comes shall never hunger. He that believes shall never
thirst. There's to be a coming to the
Lord Jesus Christ, there's the conviction of sin, there's a
realization of what we are and where we are as sinners. But
the Lord Jesus is that one who receives the sinners, and so
sinners are to are to come to Him. And what has the Lord Jesus
Christ done? Why? He came to accomplish a
great work. He came to make the great sin-atoning
sacrifice. He came to redeem sinners, to
pay that ransom price that the Holy Lord of God demands. Or
the law requires it, doesn't it? the soul that sinneth it
shall die. The wages of sin is death, and
Christ has died, and died as a substitute, bearing in His
own person the sinner's punishment. And so He has redeemed, redeemed
His people, answered all the demands of God's holy law, but
more than that, He's reconciled the sinner to God. Those sinners
who were in that state of alienation and enemies in their minds by
wicked works, how He has reconciled them. Though these things are
time and again unfolded to us in the Gospel of course, in the
New Testament, in the writings of the Apostle Paul himself,
there in Colossians 1, Verse 19, he says, concerning
Christ, it pleased the Father. It pleased the Father that in
Him should all fullness dwell, and having made peace through
the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto
Himself. By Him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things
in heaven, and you O you Colossian Christian believers, you that
were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through
death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in his sight. O those who were in that state
of alienation and enemies to God, dead in trespasses and sins,
why the Lord has made reconciliation, He's made peace. He has answered
all the demands of God's holy law. He has suffered that wrath
of God. He has made propitiation. And that suggests, you see, peace
with God. Great shall be the peace of thy
children. This is what the Lord has done. All of the attributes of God,
all that God is, holy, righteous, just, that God who is gracious, merciful,
kind, compassionate, all these attributes, they harmonize in
that great work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Mercy and truth are met
together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. There's harmony between a holy
and a just God and those who are by nature sinners to God. They're brought nigh and they're
made nigh by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, what does God say then concerning
these? The end of verse 10, neither
shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that
has mercy on them. or those who are taught of God.
Neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the
Lord that hath mercy on thee. Those who are taught of Him and
brought to faith in Christ, they actually come to Christ, they
trust in Him, they don't just know about Him, but they rest
all upon that work that He has accomplished here upon the earth
for sinners. and of course he's not only redeemed
the sinner and reconciled the sinner he's done more than that
he justifies the sinner he justifies the sinner by the righteousness of his life
he didn't just come to die a death he came to live a life and in
that life he was honoring and magnifying the Lord of God there
in terms of all its holy precepts, all His commandments. He's under
the law. He's the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone that's believer. And so again here you see in
the chapter verse 14 the very words that
follow the text in righteousness shalt thou be established And
then the end of the chapter, this is the heritage of the servants
of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. Oh, what is there in Christ?
All that blessed fulfillness of salvation. If we read on there
in that sixth chapter of John, of course, we read of what it
is to have union with Christ, communion with Christ, to eat
His flesh, to drink his blood, to partake of all that fullness
of the salvation of the grace of God. Here are the consequences
then, where the Lord is teaching the sinner, all thy children
shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy
children. They'll first know where they
are and what they are. They'll know something of the
conviction of their sins. But there'll be a coming to Christ.
There'll be a coming to Christ. A trusting in Christ. There must
be that, you know. It's not just enough to know
what we are as sinners and to confess what we are as sinners.
There must be that coming. And that trusting. And that confessing. There must be that. And then also, here is the third,
the final mark I mentioned today, it's that of the communion of
the saints. The communion of the saints.
Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also
you are called in one body, and be ye thankful, says Paul. As
he addresses the church at Colossae. The peace of God is to rule amongst
those who are the people of God, the saints of God, the churches
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Great shall be the peace of thy
children. How is this evidence? Well it's
evidence surely in that brotherly love. That brotherly love, that
union that they have not only with the Lord Jesus Christ himself
but one with the other. And Paul addresses that not just
to the church at Colossae, doesn't just exhort them to have the
peace of God ruling in their hearts, it's so with pretty well
all the epistles that he writes to the Thessalonians. He says,
as touching brethrenly love, you need not that I write unto
you, for ye yourselves are taught of God. Taught of God. to love one another. That's part
of the teaching of God. All thy children shall be taught
of the Lord. Have we learned that lesson?
Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of
peace. And you know, John says so much,
doesn't he? With regards to what that means.
There in that first General Epistle, time of the
game we find him emphasizing the importance of brotherly love
amongst the saints of God. We have it in chapter 3. Chapter 3 and verse 14. We know
that we have passed from death unto life. How do we know that
we have passed from death unto life? How do we know that we
have been taught of God? Because we love the brethren.
He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. And again,
verse 23, this is His commandment, that we should believe on the
name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave
us commandments. The end of chapter 4, If a man
say, I love God, and hate of his brother, he is a liar. For
he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he
love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we
from him that he who loveth God, love his brother also. Oh, there's
a test, you see. There's a test, how practical
God's word is. If the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts, If we're those who know truly
the peace of God in our souls, we'll desire to live at peace
one with another. And we'll manifest that love
by deeds of kindness to the brethren. Oh God have mercy upon us. God
grant that the Spirit himself might come and write the text
upon our very souls. And all thy children shall be
taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children. Amen.