...that the Church of Rome will not apply to the object of their adoration the words of the prophet, " THE FATHERS kindle the fire, and the women knead their...make cakes to the QUEEN OF HEAVEN, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." If it be not presumptuous to add...

...the time might come when we should have to think of these things. In Jeremiah vii. 18, it is said, ''The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle...unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?" 1776. We had heard much of the...

...often thought the time might come when we should have to think of those things. In Jeremiah vii. 18. "The children* gather wood, and the fathers kindle...make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. Do they not provoke themselves...

...so, why should it offend God ? These questions are answered by the author of our text, as follows : " Seest thou not what they do in. the cities of Judah...unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger ; do they provoke me to anger ? saith the Lord : do they r.ot provoke themselves to the confusion of...

...so, why should it offend God ? These questions are answered by the author of our text, as follows : " Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah...make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offering's unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger ; do they provoke me to anger ?...

...lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me : for I will not hear thee. 17 IT Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem ? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their...

...it. There is a very striking parallel to this ceremony in the following passage in the scriptures ; " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the " fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to "pour out drink offerings to other gods." Jer. c....

...it. There is a very striking parallel to this ceremony in the following passage in the scriptures ; " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the "fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to "pour out drink offerings to other gods." Jer. c....

...trouble : for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah! Seest thou now," said Jehovah, "what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets...unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger." The counsels of Jonadab must now appear in their proper light. No such Parent would have imposed such...

...unturbaned stones of their wives and daughform of the cakes described by Jeremiah, vii. 18 — '• The women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven ;" and the spirit, which in the earlier ages of Christianity retained so many of the pagan ceremonies, probably...