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... idolatry . " The land hath committed whoredoms . " Idolatry was made the national religion . The worship of Baal was a rival to the worship of God . Calf - worship led to sin , licentiousness and sensuality . The first in rank were ...
... idolatry . " The land hath committed whoredoms . " Idolatry was made the national religion . The worship of Baal was a rival to the worship of God . Calf - worship led to sin , licentiousness and sensuality . The first in rank were ...
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... Idolatry was not accidental , but prevalent ; the whole land was polluted , and the sin national . The idolatry of foreign nations was regarded as an abomination , but the sin of Israel a more glaring enormity and greater moral guilt ...
... Idolatry was not accidental , but prevalent ; the whole land was polluted , and the sin national . The idolatry of foreign nations was regarded as an abomination , but the sin of Israel a more glaring enormity and greater moral guilt ...
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... idolatry need desperate and extraordinary efforts to save them . 2. Men employed in saving them must deny themselves , and adopt the means God directs . Hosea takes a strange wife . Ezekiel loses his own , xxiv . 16 , 17. Our will must ...
... idolatry need desperate and extraordinary efforts to save them . 2. Men employed in saving them must deny themselves , and adopt the means God directs . Hosea takes a strange wife . Ezekiel loses his own , xxiv . 16 , 17. Our will must ...
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... idolatry . Sin hinders and indisposes in the pur- suit after God . It is a violation of his law and rejection of his love and authority . It renounces all subjection to him , and casts him off entirely . This is to prefer the creature ...
... idolatry . Sin hinders and indisposes in the pur- suit after God . It is a violation of his law and rejection of his love and authority . It renounces all subjection to him , and casts him off entirely . This is to prefer the creature ...
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... idolatrous nations whose alliance they courted , and to whom they ascribed the gifts of life , bread and water ( Jer . xliv ... idolatry . 9. Return ] As if absent from men when they abuse his gifts : turn from love to displeasure ; from ...
... idolatrous nations whose alliance they courted , and to whom they ascribed the gifts of life , bread and water ( Jer . xliv ... idolatry . 9. Return ] As if absent from men when they abuse his gifts : turn from love to displeasure ; from ...
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Page 206 - That Day is a Day of Wrath, a Day of Trouble and distress, a Day of wasteness and desolation, a Day of darkness and gloominess, a Day of clouds and thick darkness.
Page 143 - In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Page 586 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 513 - And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee : though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Page 334 - FOR, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 365 - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Page 519 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; Thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 504 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Page 492 - But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Page 156 - Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared...