...visitation they shall perish. Jer. x. 8, 15. The idols he shall utterly abolish. Is. ii. 18. He tw<lfth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside,...he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand. Is. iliv. 20. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. I speak as to...

...contests with others about trifles, which occasion so much misery, and so many crimes in the world. He feedeth on ashes, a deceived heart hath turned...he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my rig/it liand ? * — Once open to him the perfect sources of knowledge and truth ; suppose...

...rigour ^d from his own disturbing conyictions. Do not both of the cases illustrate Isaiah xliv. 20 : 'A deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ? ' But it may be fairly alleged that whatever steps led to the denial of a future...

...fancied profit ; but by imposing on his heart, what can he propose to gain? Hefeedeth on ashes: Ji deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand.?* THUS, I have set before you some of those great objects which ought to employ...

...pleasure in unrighteousness."* The wretched victim of antinomianism as well as the stupid idolater, " feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him...he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ?"• But let us turn from these delusions to the light which is given to dissipate...

...we through his poverty might be rich." (2 Cor. viii. 9.) Of the one we must say, " he feedeth upon ashes, a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that...he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ?" (lea. xliv. 20.) Of the other the Scripture saith, " Blessed are the dead which...

...characters to whom the words of the prophet, though spoken immediately of idolaters, will more fully apply i He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned...he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? There are, however, degrees in this kind of infatuation ; and I doubt not but...

...of me, O Israel : thou hast not brought me, &c. — Isa. xliii. 21—23. He feedeth upon ashes ; and a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul ; nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ? — Isa. xliv. 20. I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, &c. when thou...

...cxxvii. 1. Man's goings are of the Lord: how can a man then understand his own way ? — Prov. xx. 24. A deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul ; nor say, Is then; not a lie in? &c. — Isa. xliv. 20. : . O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself:...

...although it may be said of him, with no less truth than of the worshipper of idols, " He feedeth upon ashes ; a deceived heart hath turned him aside that...soul, nor say, is there not a He in my right hand ?" The most alarming evil connected with this delusion is, that it leads the mind by slow degrees,...