...old, and even now the same language is addressed to many of us: ' Hear, 0 ye heavens, and give ear, 0 earth ; for the Lord hath spoken : I have nourished...children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider."...

...she will not move in the steps of her loveliness 5 ." In Isaiah, how sublime !—" Hear, O Heaven, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me c ." The following passage is scarcely unworthy Isaiah himself:—"...

...trespasses and sins. (2 Eph. ].) 8. Does God particularly censure the sins of his profess, ing people ? I ,have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib ; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider....

...abilities ; the God " in " whom we live, and move, and are." " Hear, O " heavens, and give ear, O earth, I have nourished " and brought up children, and they have rebelled " against me !" The God, against whom every sin is committed, stands at once related to us, as our Creator, Benefactor,...

...can be more displeasing to a kind and gracious God, than this? God speaks of it with Astonishment, " Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord...I have nourished and brought up children, and they bare rebelled against me." Besides, 3. There is another reason, why God is highly displeased with sinners...

...regardless of these obligations, you may, with propriety, be addressed in the language of the prophet — " Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O " earth ; — for...have nourished " and brought up children ; and they have rebelled "against me." But the natural fitness of early .piety will more strikingly appear, if...

...love and adore that God, who saith, " The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." The man in the text was not one of this sort ; he did enter into a profession of religion, and sat with...

...(and nearer it need not be brought to that of the most learned) I may now cry out as Isaiah did, ' Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken.' To that voice 'which shakes the heavens and the earth/ who will not listen ? That voice which hath...

...44,45.) Lastly. Imputable sin is rebellion against God, or enmity against his rightful authority. " The LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." Unsubmission and perverseness go to the essence of imputable sin. God, as...

...(and nearer it need not be brought to that of the most learned) I may now cry out as Isaiah did, ' Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken.' To that voice ' which shakes the heavens and the earth,' who will not listen ? That voice which hath...