...already active. Affliction is the golden opportunity for sowing the good seed of religion. " О Lord, when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness," is the language of the prophet ; and it certainly becomes allclasses, as far as they have opportunity,...

...rock, and the high God their Redeemer. Well, therefore, might the Prophet pronounce, that when God's JUDGMENTS are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness ; and St. Peter, in the text ; They that have suffered in the flesh, have ceased from sin. Let us proceed,...

...people the blessing of PEACE, DISCOURSE XXXVI. A FAST SERMON. ISAIAH, xxvi. 9. When thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. IN that part of Isaiah's prophecy which is com* prehended between the thirteenth and twenty-third chapters,...

...people the blessing of PEACE. 551 DISCOURSE XXXVI. A FAST SERMON. ISAIAH, xxvi. 9. When thy judgements are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. IN that part of Isaiah's prophecy which is comprehended between the thirteenth and twenty-third chapters,...

...With my soul have I desired thee in the night ; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek Ihee early : drink ; for tkere is in*, uii, cai .in' j <_M 1 1 1 iv , 11 ound of abundance of rain. 42 So A 10 Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness : in the land of uprightness...

...Governor of the world, they must submit to consequences. God is sufficiently explicit on the subject : " When thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." Here we are informed, that one grand design the Lord has in view is, to instruct in righteousness ;...

...Lord, have we waited for thee ; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee ; for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness8. The Lord's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name ; hear...

...way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee — — AND in the next verse the Prophet adds, When thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. It is a lamentable proof both of the depravity and the disingenuousness of our nature, that in general,...

...intends it, for the advancing us in the knowledge of Him, and of ourselves, and of our whole duty; For when thy Judgments are in the Earth, the Inhabitants of the World will learn Righteousness. A text, you see, that suppose th judgments in the earth, or upon a land, (as its occasions) and so...

...all surprizing if a fresh volcano should break out in some of the surrounding mountains. Isaiah says, "When thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." — The world that reads and hears of them may learn righteousness, but I. fear those who are exercised...