...To prove this truth, he brought that scripture in the 15th of Jeremiah; "then laid the Lord unto me, though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people." This fell like a thunderbolt upon me, and I went home with a troubled heart. "And whose case can this...

...staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will rut off man and beast from it : though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but thcir own souls by thcir righteousness, saith the Lord GOD. " If 1 cause noisome beasts to pass through...

...2. Vol. III. ; and Dr. Blair's Lectnret on Rhetoric, Lect. XLI. which seem to favour this opinion. Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God :" and also James, (v. 11.) " Ye have heard of the patience...

...of the righteous, but the righteous should be alone preserved. The sentence is full and peremptory : THOUGH THESE THREE MEN, NOAH, DANIEL, AND JO"B, WERE IN IT, THEY SHOULD DELIVER BUT THEIR OWN SOULS BY THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS, SAITH THE LORD GOD. Yet time was, when God would have spared even that inhospitable,...

..." See instamr.. in Christianity, &c. p. 3, 105, 111, 115, 116, 122, 124, 140, 196. » Ezck. xiv. 4. THREE MEN, NOAH, DANIEL, AND JOB, WERE IN IT, THEY SHOULD DELIVER BUT THEIR OWN SOULS BY THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS, SAITH THE LORD GOD. Yet time was, when God would have spared even that inhospitable,...

...« See instances in Christianity, &c. p. 3, 105, 111, 115, 116, 122, 124, 140, 196. * Ezek. xiv. 4. THREE MEN, NOAH, DANIEL, AND JOB, WERE IN IT, THEY SHOULD DELIVER BUT THEIR OWN SOULS BY THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS, SAITH THE LORD GOD. Yet time was, when God would have spared even that inhospitable,...

...of hosts," &c., Jerem. xxvii, 18. And their prayers are supposed to be very prevalent with God : " Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be towards this people," Jerem. xv, 1. When, therefore, God was determined to bring judgments upon the...

...&c. Woe unto thee, &c. Wilt thou not be made clean ? &c. — Jer. xiii. 2 1 , 22. 27. xiv. 1 1, 12. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind...be toward this people : cast them out of my sight, &c. such as are for death, to death, &c. Who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem ? who shall bemoan...

...&c. Woe unto thee, &c. Wilt thou not be made clean ? &c. — Jer. xiii. 2 1 , 22. 27. xiv. 11, 12. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind...be toward this people : cast them out of my sight, &c. such as are for death, to death, &c. Who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem ? who shall bemoan...

...answered in the manner which we intend : for we remember that the Lord once said concerning Judah, " Though " Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my " mind could not be towards this 'people."1 But we have considerable ground of hope that we are not yet reduced to this...