...withholding the tokens of his favour, and must be esteemed a mark of his displeasure. Thus Isaiah uses it; Your iniquities have separated between you and your...have hid his face from you, that he will not hear J. And again, Thou hast hid thy face from us, as not regarding the calamities we suffer, and hast consumed...

...commonlv known, so familiar to almost every religious ear, yet too little felt by any of our hearts, Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have kid his face from you that he will not hear*. And this is, on the whole, a merciful dispensation of...

...secretly indulged ; and while it is so do not wonder that God hides his face from thee. Isa. lix. 1, 2; " Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God,...

...of his procedure, If. lix. i, 2. " Behold, the Lord's hand is not fhort" ened, that it cannot fave : neither his ear heavy, that it " cannot hear. But your iniquities have feparated be" tween you and your God, and your fins have hid his " face from you, that he will not...

...which the inconsiderate sinner had raised between God and himself; concerning which the prophet says, " your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you," Isa. lix. 2. By sin man lost the favour and friendship of God, and incurred his righteous hatred and...

...how love bade him raise A shrine on these new shores to thine eternal praise. EL A ISAIAH LIX. 1. " Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot...save, neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear." Is He faithful and true ? — when the soul is at rest, And the plea of the penitent sinner is winging...

...on his ftart, that you are not delivered ; But the true reason of yvur firesent calamities is, that your iniquities have separated . between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face, that is, his favourable regard, from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with...

...for ever. * Linquenda tcllus, & domus, & placens uxor, &c. S BUM ON XVIII. ISAIAH lix. 1, 2. Behotdi the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save,...have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. OUR vain minds are naturally fruitful in nothing more than in mistakes of God ; for the most part we...

...the rays of liis love should fall with less sensibility, or, if I may so say, more obliquely upon us. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have Aid his face from, you. This produces our winter state. It makes the affections cold and inactive....

...against the house of evil doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. lix. 2. Your iniquties have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you. Ixiv. 7. Thou luist consumed us because of our iniquities. Jer. ii. 22. Thine iniquity is marked before...