...experience, the wicked are commonly cut off in their sins, and are appointed not to live out half their days. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. It is the common acknowledgment of all who have lived any considerable number of years, and arc capable...

...conclude on the final state of men from the judgments of God upon them; but neither are we to forget that he, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. It is the appointment of heaven too that ' the wicked shall not live out half their days :' while '...

...shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.' Prov. xxix. 1. ' He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.' Luke xiii. 6. ' He spake also this parable ; A certain man had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard,...

...our hopes, and piercing us through with many sorrows. Wretched delusion! fearful case! for "he, who being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." Pray that this may not be the result with me. Pray that, having passed under the rod, I may not be...

...texts appear to me to have no hidden meaning, and to require no private interpretation. Prov. 29 : 1, " He, that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." Very true, we have often seen it, but what does it say of sinning away the day of grace, or of a final...

...When the wicked rise, men hide themselves : hut when they perish, the righteous increase. CHAP. XXIX. unto them, When ye be come into the land which 1 give...unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then - When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beart'lii rule, lite...

...secret love 23. Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; out the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. 24. He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. 25. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain : but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shal be praised...

...your own ways; tremble, lest that come upon you which is written, Prov. i. 24°—31. Consider that " he that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." One word I must add, lest what I have said should be mistaken by some to whom it does not apply. There...

...his ministers is indeed an awful sign. We fear for those who will not listen to admonitions. For ' he that, being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.' [Proverbs xxix. lJ Ahab had, probably, become more obdurate through his late reprieve, and promised...

...are acquiring an additional degree of hardness; and let us take warning from the declaration, that 'He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.' But, if we do experience something of that joy and love which the gospel describes, and have thus reason...