...that it cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have divided between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face fro?n you, that he should not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity....

...think of it, both safe and healthful. This was the Lord's doing, and it was marvellous in our eyes. Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it...save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear ; Is. lix. 1. The same mercy is everlasting ; the same remedy certain : be we but penitent, and we...

...sin, many times, withholds from us those temporal comforts, which we stand in need of : Isaiah lix. 2. But your iniquities have separated between you and...have hid his face from you, that he will not hear, 2. Because, without pardon of sin, our temporal enjoymerits are but snares and curses. Q.. What observe...

...commonly known, BO 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 hid Hi? Face from you that He Kill not hear (q). And this is, ou the whole, a merciful Dis. rtensation...

...?" The same prophet says, " Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save ; nor is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear ; but your iniquities...your God ; and your sins have hid his face from you." Parallel to these are the words of our text ; and they express the irresistible power and immutable...

...he will forsake us.1'* This his people of old experienced to their cost, as the prophet told them; " Your iniquities have separated between you and your...sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear."b And is this a slight correction? % Let the cries, and terrors of persons under dereliction,0...

...will sufficiently exr plain my meaning. For instance, in the fifty-ninth chapter of Isaiah : X Ver 1 . Behold the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, Neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. Ver. 9. Therefore is judgment far from us, Neither doth justice...

...sword, and thy mighty in the war, ver. i — 25. Chap. lix. Behold the Lord's hand is not s/wrtcned that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy that it...have hid his face from you, that he will not hear, &c. ver. i, 2. Ch. Ixiii. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved...

...could get no access to God nor communion with him; now I was made to feel something of this text, " But your iniquities have separated between you and...have hid his face from you that he will not hear." I frequently found many checks of conscience for attempting to deny the glorious and mysterious doctrine...

...forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you ; when ye make many prayers I will not hear. . „ Your iniquities have separated between you and your...have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. John vii 34. Jesus said, ye shall seek me, and shall . not find me. viii 2 1 . Ye shall seek me, and...