...•serve. As the prophet saith, " A deceived heart will turn them aside, that they cannot deliver their own soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ?" (Isa. xliv. 20.) 2. It will take away the efficacy of means that should do them good ; nay, it will...

...wretchedness of the idolater described by the prophet in the following terms, ' he feedeth of ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot deliver his soul :' Isa. xliv. 20. — and when we hear David singing the triumphs of his son, to whom the everlasting...

...additions to the sum of his merit and the lustre of his holiness. But alas ! " he feedeth on ashes ; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot...soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ?" ' 7 All this is nothing better than spurious sanctity, and the hope which it engenders is false...

...the Saviour is rejected for perishable interests and sensual indulgences. " He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot...soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand ?"•)• Men walk on in darkness because they love it; and they "love dark-, ness rather than light,...

...lover of the world is an idolater) the prophet Isaiah says (chap. xliv. 20.) He feedeth on nslit-s : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot...soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand. Let the worldling compare his past experience with this description ; and then let him attend to the...

...exquisitely refined persons confide. " A deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot save his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" Isaiah, xliv. 20. The reader will find no difficulty in applying some of the preceding observations...

...not a knowledge of thy ways. "A deceived heart hath turned them aside, that they cannot deliver their soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ?" It will be readily con. ceded, that men, as transgressors, are in a stale of entire alienation,...

...sometime alienated and enemies in [your] mind by wicked works. Coloss. i. 21. m He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot...soul, nor say, [Is there] not a lie in my right hand ? Isai. xliv. 18, 19. Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were...

...residue thereof an abomination ? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree ?. 20 He feedeth oa ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot...soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ? 21 IT Remember these, O Jacob and Israel ; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee ; thou art...

...the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree? He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot...soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand"? These passages must commend themselves to reason and conscience. I leave them, without any further...