...have been, for ever impossible. But the things that are impossible with men, are possible with God. " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thy help." The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost : and what he came to do, he will assuredly...

...conscience. Man, like Adam, flies from the voice of his God to some hiding-place, but the voice follows him : O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help. Sottish Man would stop his ears to the voice of his friend ; but God thundereth marvellously in them....

...He can plunge himself into guilt and misery ; but it requires an Almighty arm to draw him out again. O, Israel! thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thy help found. Pride and self-sufficiency are some among the many proofs and effects of our fallen and depraved...

...rather consider them as proofs that your soul is alive, and be incited by • See Hosea xiii. 9. " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but " in me is thy help." This is the case of every convinced sinner, till his reconciliation to God by Jesus Christ. them, as...

...the devil ; or, how could such expressions as these and many others in Scripture be consistent — O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help. (Hosea, xiii. 9.) How often would I have gathered you, 8$c. and ye WOULD NOT. (Luke, xiii. 34.) I have...

...they slop. The same charge seems also to lie against the Almighty himself. In the prophet, He says, "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thy help." But if it was by sinful exercises they were destroyed, as all must admit, and by holy exercises they...

...righteousness upon youk. Tarn thou unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually i. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help m. Return to the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn...

...sinner fif he is saved) mu«t be brought sensibly to feel the truth of what the Lord hath told him : O Israel! thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help. He must be brought to feel the truth of the prophet's declaration, " Can the Leopard change his spats,...

...irremediable; remember that, however great your present calamity or danger, escape is still possible. " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help ;" and therefore, give not " sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids," till you have sought...

...thatexcellentglory; and, out of that heavenly light, hear the voice of thy blessed Saviour, saying to thee, " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help," Hos. xiii. 9. Even so, O Jesu, in thee, only in thee, is my help. Wretched man that I am, in myself...