...round about, and behold ! there were very many in the open valley ; and lo, they were very dry. "And He said unto me, Son of Man, can these bones live?...me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, Oh, ye dry bones, hear the words of the Lord. " Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones : Behold I...

...round about; and behold, there were very many in the open valley : and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, son of man, can these bones live...Again, he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones; say unto them, 0, ye dry bones, hear ye the word of the Lord : thus saith the Lord God unto these bones,...

...round about : and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word...

...towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ," without a moment's delay. "Prophesy upon these dry bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord." The prophet, if he had possessed the same pride of reason with many of our day, would have said, Lord,...

...renders it so. proper to the service of this day. Proceeding, then, with the vision, we read, « And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live...them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord." Behold, then, in the vision before us, first, a most affecting picture of the state of all men by nature...

...round about : and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live...say unto them, O ye dry bones,* hear the word of the • Dry bones.} " The extreme accuracy of symbolical prophecy is very remarkable. St. John, wishing...

...bones live [the prophet was no Arminian] ? and I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest [for I do not]. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones,...word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live." A man dead in sin has no...

...P*el "" CONTENTS. SERMON XXII. The Duties of Christiane towards tie Heathen. EZEKIEL xzivii. 4. — Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones,...say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the I^rd. Page 114. SEttMON XXIII. The Christian in the Wilderneee. HOSEA ¡I. 14, IS.— Then-Гиге,...

...them round about: and behold there were very many in the open valley ; and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can. these bones live? and I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. 1 1 . Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say,...

...of Ezekiel, which Coleridge is said to have pronounced the most sublime in the whole Bible — " And he said unto me, son of man can these bones live ? And I answered O Lord God thou knowest" — has seventeen monosyllables to three others. The early writers, ' the pure wells of English undefiled,'...