...strangers, and after them will I go." The promises and consolations of the gospel recover and heal. " For the iniquity of his covetousness, was I wroth, and smote him, and * 1 Pet. i. 17. t Ib. ii. 9. } II,. i. 14. § Ib. Hi. 14. || Ib. v. 5. ^ Ib. v. 8. ** Ib. i. 2,...

...Gehazi, or the fate of Judas, the secret of their punishment is explained when the Almighty declares, " For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him." And what do we behold in every such infliction but an earnest of its coming doom ? the scintillations...

...pride ; for " God resisteth the proud," and " beholds them afar off." Beware of worldly-mindedness : " For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him," Is. lvii. 17. Beware of unbelief, that root of bitterness, which causes to " depart from the living...

...strangers, and after them will I go." The promises and consolations of the gospel recover and heal. " For the iniquity of his covetousness, was I wroth, and smote him, and * 1 Pet. i. 17. t Ib. ii. 9. t Ib. i. 14. § Ib. iii. 14. | Ib. v. 5. \ Ib. v. 8. ** Ib. i. 2,...

...meekness and gentleness turned into fierceness ! his grace and pity blazing into just and holy wrath ! " For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him." In this let the guilty lover of the world behold how God abominates the sin which he, on the contrary,...

...neither will I be always wroth : for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth,...his heart. I have seen his ways, and will heal him : I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. I create the fruit of the...

...neither will I be always wroth : for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, I hid my face and was wroth : and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart. I have seen his ways, and...

...should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth : . . . and he went on frowardly in the way...his heart. I have seen his ways and will heal him. Fresh words of Divine encouragement are heard, and then a third picture displays those who love righteous...

...on fire round about, yet he knew not ; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. Isa. 57:17. s numbered with the transgreasors ; and he bare the...intercession for the transgressors. Dan. 9:24. Seventy weeks Jer. 2:30. In vain have I smitten your children ; they received no correction : 35. Thou sayest, Because...

...'coldness,' and the 'shadow—or deep shades—of death'; therefore it is said of him (Isa. Ivii. 17), 'For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth,...smote him ; I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on turning away' (Heb.) 'in the way of his heart'; and thus he went on sinking lower and lower into the...