...in man is cursed, in God is blessed. The deceitful heart cannot deceive God. The salvation of God. 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and...of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars ; 2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills....

...view of the moral state of the tribe of Judah in the time of the prophet Jeremiah. It begins thus : ' The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and...of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars.' The prophet's language in reference to those people, is proof that their moral character was exceedingly...

...countenance. Pt. xc. 8. The sin of Jndah it written with a pen of iron, and with a point of a diamond : i* u graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars. I, the Lord, search the heart, / try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according...

...vain attempt to " put asunder what God has joined." Be it written on the tables of our hearts, " as with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond," that none who are strangers to the grace of the gospel, have any right to its comforts. Through any...

...naturally to produce the fruit of sin. Soon after the prophet Jeremiah had described the "sin of Judah,"as "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond," he was led to point out the true source of the transgressions which he thus lamented ; and that source...

...founded on delusion and fable. Blessed be God, we are not left at an uncertainty ; it is written as with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond, on the whole tablet of Revelation : it starts with the clearness of light, on even the cursory reader...

...understanding is darkened. Conscience is defiled. The affections are vile and inordinate. The sin of our nature is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond : it is graven upon the tablet of every human heart. From this source, from the fountains of the great deep of original sin...

...likewise the judgments that followed its awful apostasy. " The sin of Judah," exclaims the prophet, " is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond." And although, from its connexion with the coming of Christ, and for the great purposes of redemption,...

...that now worketh in the children of disobedience ?" The Holy Spirit expressly declared by Jeremiah, " The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and...diamond: IT is GRAVEN upon the TABLE OF THEIR HEART." Jer. Xvii. 1. WHAT is said more in this extract is gratuitous, and may be answered by the two following...

...complaineth of the mockers of his prophecy. 19 He is tent to renew the covenant in hallowing the tabbath, sower went forth to sow ; 4 And when he sowed, some...them up : 5 Some fell upon stony places, where th ; 2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their "groves by the green trees upon the high...