...effective sermon ever preached before that Society. The text was selected from Jer. vii. 18. — " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods,...

...midst of Jerusalem, and compare it well with the faets of actual life- you may now see around you. " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes, to the queen, of heaven " (Jer. yii. 18). And while this presents to us...

...cry and a prayer, And intercede not with me ; For I will not hear thee. (i. 384) 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah And in the streets of Jerusalem ? 18 Children gather wood, And fathers kindle a fire, And women knead a dough, To make cakes...

...Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger. (Malachi. iv. 1.) JEREMIAH vii. 18. "The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven." EZEKIEL iv. 9. " Take thou also unto thee wheat,...

...towards idolatrous sacrifice, by the similitude of a work carried on by children, men, and women: " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven." Jer. vii. 18. It was a complaint of the Lord against...

...sacrifice, in the similitude of a work carried on by children, men and women. " The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough to bake cakes for the queen of heaven." It was a complaint of the Lord against Israel, through his prophet...

...sacrifice, in the similitude of a work carried on by children, men and women. " The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough to bake cakes for the queen of heaven." It was a complaint of the Lord against Israel, through his prophet...

...the prophet Jeremiah thus censures: for it seems that it had been admitted among the idolatrous vices of Jerusalem. " The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven." r These cakes were called fj.v\\oi, mylloi; they...

...moon ; and such was the apostacy of Israel in the dart of Jeremiah, that as the prophet tells them, the " children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven." There had been always in Israel, from their intercourse...

...thec. IT :: -• .1 thou not what, they do In the cltiei of Judah And In the itrect» of Jerusalem? 18 i» love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any peo their dough, To make cakes to the hosts of the heavpn% And to pour out drink offering« unto other...