...remarkable illustration of this subject in the second chapter of the prophecy of Hosea. Israel said, "I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink. Therefore, behold," saith the Lord, " I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and...

...chargeable against our Church and nation ? May 187 not God be dealing with us, as with Israel of old ? " Therefore, behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall that she shall not Hnd her paths, and she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them...

...the fulness of the Spirit of God will bring them back, that they will remember their first lover. " Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them...

...them, though thon tookest vengeance on their inventions." Fifthly, Preventing of sin, Hos. ii. 6. " I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall that she shall not find her paths." The crook in the lot will readily be found to lie cross to some wron<r...

...thee unto me n faithfulness: and thou shall know dace shamefully: for she said, I wil the LORD. BO after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool aud my flax mine oil and my drink. •Л And it shall come to pass in thai day, 1 will hear, wuth the...

...that they may see their sin, in abusing God's gifts to them towards his dishonour. Hos. ii. 5. " I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and...water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." ver. 8. " For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, — which they prepared to...

...their mother hath plaved the harlot : she that conceived them hath done shamefully : for she said, I I will not be your God. {Continued — tee next page."] SECT. 6 Therefore, behold/I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her...

...pleasure in earthly Mys IIos. ii. 5. " She said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread aud my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink." Dan. iv. 30. " Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might...

...adulteries from between her breasts," &c., and I myself will constrain her to return to me. For, " behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a way that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake...

...their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water," &c. Do we ask, Why the Lord has so much withdrawn himself in our land ? Ah ! what wonder is it, his...