...aids, promise themselves every kind of safety and happiness. And hence the prophet of God wrote : " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord ;" Jerem. xvii. 5. But in short, all those sin against this commandment, who entertain opinions which...

...forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. CHAP. XVII. Trust in God. 5 THUS saith the Lord, Cursed 6* the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord i 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but 'shall inhabit...

...prayer, we may be delivered from all enemies both of soul and body. Thro.' LESSON. Jer. xvii. 5. 10.— Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth...heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like tamarick in the desart, and he shall not see when good shall come : but he shall dwell in dryness in...

...land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever. 5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh ; but shall inhabit...

...judgment, and righteouesness in the earth : for in these things I delight, saith the Lord, (ix. 23, 24.) " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and make•th...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." — " The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? I the Lord...

...confidence, let us be deterred by the many awful sentences which severely humble us to the dust. Such as, " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arms." (r) Again: " God delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the...

...is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes. What a working passage is that, ' Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth...from the Lord ! For he shall be like the heath in the deserts, and shall not see when good cometh. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, whose hope...

...know it." — A few verses before, the prophet had commenced a new subject with this denunciation : " Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh...his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord;" to perceive the force and propriety of which expressions it must be remembered that, at the time they...

...we might as well invoke the wind to save us, as such a God as this. And " cursed is every one that maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord." For a mere human Saviour is nothing O but an arm of flesh, and we cannot set our hearts at once upon the...

...sinking down into everlasting perdition; that you may not be one of them spoken of, Jer. xvii. 6. " That shall be" like the heath in the desert, and shall not see good when good comes." If you do not improve this opportunity, remember -I have told you, you will...