...boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? Shall the saw magnify itself against him that sbaketh it ? As if the rod should shake itself against them...staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood." — Isa. x. 15. 5. All sin is a means of quenching the Spirit ; secret sins, open sins, sins of omission,...

...king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. Shall the axe boast itself against him thatheweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against...shaketh it? As if the rod should shake itself against him that lifteth it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. Here God represents...

...acknowledgment, that it becomes not the thing formed to say unto him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus ? Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth...itself against them that lift it up ; or, as if the rod should lift up itself as if it were no wood : these expressions are strong, •yet they .are not...

...the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itaelf against him that heweth therewith ? or shall «he woe unto me ! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously: M if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord...

...repliest against God ? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus?"* " Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth...therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shakethit?"t I pretend not, my dear friends, to present these various statements in any such consistent...

...gloryas if thou hiubt not received it? 1 Cor iv. 7. Shall the axe boast itself againsi him that hewclh therewith ? or shall the saw magnify itself against...him that shaketh it '. as if the rod should shake ¡fs?(/";igainst them thatlift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as fit were no wood,...

...hammer ! Arminianism does that, which God, by the prophet, satirises in the following lively terms : Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? or shall a saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it ? As if the rod should shake itself against them that...

...the earth ; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith ? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that )orfV*£u° shaketh it ? § as if the rod should shake itself against them J£.AT/*TOI that lift it...

...saw magnify itself against him lhat shiiketh it ! as if the rod should shake itself against them thai X . . ' . i fit mere tro wood, ir 1C Therefore shall the Lord, the LORD of hosts, send amoug his fat ones leanness...

...gathered all the earth ; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 ` ,0 shaketli it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff shook)...