'l'REH'B PAGE Faithful among the Faithless 35 Visions of God ... 7, 13 " Son of Man" 36 " '.l.'he Likeness of a Man" ... 8 Rebellious N e.tions 37 Stroightforwardness 9 The Prophet's Commission... 38 The Bright Fire ... 10 Prophetic Receptiveness 39 Wheels of Providence 11 '.l.'he Scroll 40 'fhe Rainbow 11 The Interlacing of Divine Command Exile and Captivity 12 and Divine Strength 41 The Lord's Word and the Lord's Hand 14 An Arduous Embe.ssege 41 The Glory of the Eternal ... 15 God's Ambassador a Warrior 42 He who is upon the Throne 17 "The Bread of Heaven" ... 43 Reverence 18 The Commission to Prophetio Service 4-1 Introduction respecting the Person and The Vision of the Roll; or, a View of Mission of the Prophet ... 18 the Prophetic Message . . . 45 Eal'ly Symbols of Jehovu.h's P1·esence 20 Unseen Forms of Intelligent Ministry 20 Nature's Material Forces are the Ac- CHAPTER III. tive Servants of the Church 22 Eating a Book 50 The Vision of God is the Source of Colonial Missions... 51 Prophetic Inspiration 23 Adamant 52 The Divine Summons to the Prophetic The Start in Life ... 53 Mission M Silence ... 5-! The Providential Government of God 26 The Watchman 5-! The Overwhelming and the Reviving Varieties of J udgment 5-! in Di vine Revelations 28 On the Pie.in end in the House 55 A Prophet 8trickeu Dumb .. . 56 Liberty of Hearing 57 CHAPTER Il. The Privileged and the Unprivileged 58 God speaking and Man listening 31 The Fearlessness of the Lord's Mes- The Entrance of.the Spirit ... 32 senger .. . 59 An Embassy to Rebels 33 The Inpouring of Divine Fulness 59 Dwelling among Scorpions 34 Celestial Voices .. . 60 Preaching to Unwilling Hearers ,., 35 Human Bitterness and Di viue Strength 61 ii INDEX.
llf'HEMR PAnR Tl'IEMII l'AOl!I The Watchman's Office 62 The Outstretched Hnnd 107 Dnmbncse e.nd Speach 62 The IdolRtry of the Land avenged 108 Ambassadomhip ... 63 Conviction ' 109 Responsibility 64 "A Remnant" llO The Silenced Prophet, a Calamity 65 Self-loathing 111 The Awful Consequences of Noglect- The Le.nd involved in Me.n's Pu~ish- ing the Word of the Lord 66 ment ... 112 The Prophet e. Watchman ... 67 Many lost; few saved 112 God communicating with J\fan 69 Ministerial Earnestness 113 The Tempol"ILl'y Suspension of the The Impotence of Idols lH Active Ministry of the Prophet 69 Stages in the Soul's Progress from Sin unto Salvation ... 115 CHAPTER IV. The Sorrow of the Servant of God on Account of the Sins of his People... 116 A Pictorial Sermon 75 Sin-bearing 76 " Defiled Bread" ... 77 CHAPTER VII. Siege 77 " The End is come" 121 Substitution 78 '' The Day is come " 122 The Chastisement of Famine 79 Duyer and Seller ... 123 Vicarione Suffering 80 Mourning as Doves 124 A Symbolic Famine 81 Gold and Silver 124 The Siege of Jerusalem and the Sn1fer- Rumour ... 125 inge of the People symbolized 82 A Vain Search 126 Recompense 127 Mourning 128 CHAPTER V. The Limitations to the Power of "A Barber's Razor" 87 Wealth 129,137 A Central Position 87 The Averted Face 129 Opposed by God ... 88 Peace sought in Va.in 130 A Unique Event ..• 89 The Prophetic Vision dimmed, and Diminishment 90 the Prophetic Voice silenced 131 The Shame of Moral Shipwreck, and The Hand of the Clock on the Hour its Lessons 91 of Doom 132 Privileges abused ... 92 Fallacious Deliverance 133 Divine Antagonism 93 The Even Balances of Jehovah 134 A Reproach and a Lesson 93 The Punishment of the Wicked 135 The Prophetic Office involves Self. Aspects of the Execution of the sacrifice 94 Divine Jndgmeµts 13G Abused Privilege produces Condign The Impossibility of becoming truly Pmrishment 95 Strong in a Life of Sin .. . 139 The Divine Remonstrator ... 96 The Perversion of Desirable Posses- The Sword of the Divine Judgment ... 97 sions punished by the Deprivation Pre-eminent Privilege, Perversity, and of them 140 Punishment 99 The Dread Development of Moral Evil H2 CHAPTER VL CHAPTER VIII. The Doom of the Mountains 104 A Ruined Civilization 104 A Revelation of Fire 14G The Remnant 105 "The Image of Jealousy" ... 147 Tl,e Consciousness of God ..• 106 Chambers of Imagery 148 INDEX. iii
TDRMB PAG'fl: CHAPTER XI. "Greater Abominations" 149 TREHP. PAGR Bun-Worship 150 The Fe.lee Confidence of Unbelief 192 Making Light of Bin 150 God's Knowledge of Man's Thought 193 The Glory of God and the Image of The Sanctuary of the Exile 193 Jealousy 151 Restoration and Reunion . .• 194 Base Idolatry 152 The Heart of Flesh 195 Atheism ... 152 Preaching to the Captives... 195 "Weeping for '.fammuz " ... 153 Evil Counsellors ... 196 Sun-Worshippers in Jerusalem 154 Judgment deferred 197 Gradue.1 Disclosure of Hume.n Sin 154 Divine Omniscience 198 Men Co-assessors in Judgment with Remonstrance and Intercession 199 God ... 156 Exile and Restoration 200 The Vision of the Image of Jealousy 156 Spiritual Transformation 200 The Chambers of Imagery ; or, Secret Mutual Possession 201 Sins 158 The Prophetic Office 201 Me.n's Provocations of God, and God's Thf, Summary Punishment of Official Punishment of Man ,., 160 Guilt ... 202 Privilege: Apparent or Real 204 The Pre=ptuous Security of Sinnem CHAPTER IX. exhibited and condemned 205 God's Knowledge of our Thoughts ... 207 A Write1·'s Ink-Horn 163 A Suffering People scorned by Man The Mark upon the Forehead 164 and comforted by God .. . 208 Beginning at the Sanctuary 165 God the Sanctuary of his People 210 The Temple defiled 165 A United Heart the Gift of God 212 The Inexorable God 166 The Completed Task 167 The Mark of Spiritual Concern 168 CHAPTER Xll. " Begin at the S11,nctuary I " 169 170 Blind Eyes and Dee.f Ears... 215 True Obedience ... The Hour of Judgment 171 Teaching by Example 216 God's Net 216 Human Intercession 173 Divine Discrimine.tion in the Execu- Fear 217 tion of Judgment 173 A Worthless Proverb 218 The End of Delusions 218 The Intercession of the Prophet, and Hope mingled with Fear 219 the Answer of the Lord ... 176 Trembling Anticipatioilll 220 The Human Proverb and the Divine 221 The Drame.tio Form of Prophecy 221 CHAPTER X. The Snare of Unbelief 223 The Throne of God 178 A Parabolic Appeal to a Rebellions " Coals of Fire " ..• 179 People 224 T-he Moving Glory 180 Deprivations caused by Sin 225 " The Form of a Man's He.nd" 181 The Word of the Lord discredited and Glory departed 181 vindicated 227 Heavenly Che.ngelessness .. , 182 The Throne of Deity 183 CHAPTER XIII. The Brightness of the Divine Glory ... 183 "The Voioe of the Almighty " 184 Prophesying against the Prophets 231 The Machinery of God's Providence ... 185 Foxes 232 The Vision of Judgment by Fire 187 Fa.lse Peace 232 The Withdrawal of the Presence of God "Untempered Mortar" 233 from a Guilty People 188 E:ffemina.te Religion 234, 240 INDEX,