...clearly than ever. This is agreeable to a common characteristic of the Hebrew. So in Jeremiah, ii. 27. " Saying to a stock, thou art my father, and to a stone, thou hast begotten me."— And 2 Sam. vii. 14, "1 will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son." See...

...to the knowledge communicated by the great Prophet, for their own exemption from the degradation of saying "to a stock, Thou art my father, and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth," they can yet pretend that no revelation of God was necessary. If the history of the world teaches any...

...house of Israel ashamed ; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, 27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father ; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth : for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face : but in the time of their trouble they...

...other gods before me :" this commandment forbids, 1. Serving a false God, and not the true, Jer. ii. 27, " saying to a stock, Thou art my father ; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth." Or, 2. Joining a false god with a true, 2 Kings xvii. 33, " They feared the Lord, and served their...

...and folly of idols. In Jeremiah ii. 27, we find another remonstrance on the absurdity of idolatry, " saying to a stock, thou art my father, and to a stone, thou hast brought me forth ;" and in the 10th chapter, fifth verse of the same prophet, God declares again of the idols, " They...

...clearly than ever. This is agreeable to a common characteristic of the Hebrew. So in Jeremiah, ii. 27. " Saying to a stock, thou art my father, and to a stone, thou hast begotten me."— And 2 Sam. vii. 14, "1 will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son." See...

...house of Israel ashamed ; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, hat dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn for they have turned "their back unto me, and not their face : but in the time of their "trouble they...

...the house of Israel ashamed ; they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, saying to a stock, Thou art my father ; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth," &c. And chap. viii. 1, " At that time, saith the Lord, (ie when the Jews shall be carried captive)...

...their kings, and their princes, And their priests, and their prophets : 27 Who say to a piece of wood, Thou art my father ; And to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth ; Surely they have turned unto me the back, and not the face; But in the time of their trouble they...

...the earth as grasshoppers, — yet man, having forsaken his heavenly Father, has said to a Jer. 2, stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth ; and methinks, for this cause the Psalmist says to Ps. 45, human nature, Forget also thine own people,...