rnnrB PAOR TRF.MR uon "The Lorn of the Lord toward tho The llfiAnAc of Divine ,Jml<>mont~ 151 Children of Israel" 94 The Affiiction of God'e WUhdrawal... 15:J The Kinglese State and Pdostlcs;; Divine Omniecienco 155 C~roh 91 Divine Withdrawal 155 H,,tnrning to God 9,'i Human Treachery 15.i Lo,·e to the Adulteress 05 Human Phyeicians Hclploss 156 Fruits of Affliction 15G Na.tional Depravity 157 CHAPTER IV. Necessary Preliminaries to a. Godly Isra.el'e Sin a.nd Consequent Suff'ering 107 Life ... 158 Priestly Neglect a.nd its Oonsequencos 109 Too Late 159 Faults in the Life breed Errors in the An Earnest Ministry 159 Bra.in, a.nd Errors in the Bra.in pro- "The Moth;" or, God's Quiet Method duce in Turn Fa.ults in the Life ... 111 of Destroying ... 160 A. Passing Word of Wa.ming is a.d- Wrong Methods of Relief 162 dre88ed to Juda.h 112 God a.nd Man 162 The Lord·s Le.wsuit 114 Ephraim and Judah 164 Israel's Guilt a.nd Punishment 116 The False Physician a.nd the True 165 " Like People, like Priest " 116,124 Ephraim a.nd J ndah 119 Insensibility the Result of Impenitence 120 CHAPTER VI. " Hea.r the Word of the Lord ! " 122 Exhortation a.nd Encouragement to A Controversy 122 Repentance 171 Ignore.nee a.nd Destruction ... 123 Israel's Inconstancy 175 Sensna.lity is Ruin 124 Repentance and Saving Knowledge ... 176 Abandonment 125 Fugitive Piety 178 A. Corrnpt People and an Expostulating Religion a.nd Irreligion 179 God 125 On Returning to the Lord .. . 181 A. Terrible Deprivation 126 The Promised Da.yspring .. . 182 Religious Ignore.noe 127 Heavenly Blessings for Wee.ry Soule 184 Secular Prosperity 127 God's Grief over Evanescent Goodness 185 Feeding on Sin 128 The Divine Healer 187 The Reciprocal ln.fl.nence of Priest- Spiritual Revival ... 187 hood a.nd People 129 The Quest of Divine Knowledge 188 An Unholy .Allie.nee a.nd a. Righteone Morning e.nd Showers 188 A.ba.ndo11.111ent ... 130 The Ra.in 189 Retributive Ju&tice 130 Traneitory Goodness 189,198 The Lord's Controversy 131 Mercy better than Sacrifice 190 Priests a.nd People 132 Knowledge a.nd Mercy 190 Bin's Fatuity 133 Man's Highest Socia.I Action 190 Warning to J ndah 134 Man God-ward, a.nd God ,Man-we.rd ... 191 Offending 135 A Threefold 'l'heme mi Righteousness a.nd Ritualism 193 Divine Institutions corrupted 194 CHAPTER V. Na.tura.lness of Ret?jbution .. , 196 God here e.rra.igns the Bins of Princes, Returning to God ... 196 Priests, and People 141 The De.y-da.wn a.nd the Re.in 197 No Place found for Repentance 143 The Broken Covenant 199 God's Judgments differ both in De- gree and Kmd . . . 145 CHAPTER VII. National Bin a.nd Puuiehm.ent 147 Landmark-Removers 148 Crimes charged on Israel ; People and The DiviDe Judgments 150 Princea 20!> INDEX. iii
TBBII ■ uo ■ TRUl'B: PA41&: The Billy Sinful Pride and Obduracy Idolatry ... 265 of Iero.el, in spite of Many Manifest Perversion of Worship ... . .. 266 Tokens of Decay, or their Disaetrone Neither the Religion nor Security of a Foreign Policy ... 213 Nat ion to be judged by A ppea.rancee 267 Bins or Oourt and Country ... 215 Doomsde.y ... ... . .. 267 "A Oe.ke not turned " 216 Broken Gode .. . 268 "Grey He.ire" 218 Iere.el among the GenW.es .. . 269 Ephraim'& Folly and Falsenee■ 220 Religion become Sin 269 An Unconsidered Truth 221 The Bin of Hnlf-heartedness 221 CHAPTER IX. The Unperceived Signs of Moral Decay 223 Useless Prayers ... 224 Bin is the Oalll8 of Sorrow and the God's Memory of Man's Wickedness 225 Source of Se.dneBB ... 27i None ea.Heth unto God 225 There is no Joy, a.ny more than Peace, They retum not unto the Lord 225 to the Binner .. . . .. 279 The Silly Dove . . . 226 God'■ Goodness met with Ingratitude Failure to ery unto the Lord 226 by a Sinful People 280 God's Remembre.nce of Sin 227 " The Wicked she.11 not go Un- Sad Aspects of Oharacter .. . 227 punished" 282 The Silliness of Bin 229 The Assyrian Captivity 284 The Fowler of Retribution .. . 229 The True and the False Prophet 286 Divine Dispensations abused 230 Bereavement, Barrennese, and Be.ni.ah- Bin' e Malignancy .. . 231 ment ... 287 The Oven and the Baker . . . 232 The Lord's Land ... 289 Mixing with the Ungodly ... 233 "What will ye do ? " 289 Ephre.im's Flight from God 235 The Bin of Despising God's Prophets 290 The Watchman ... 290 "Wanderers among the Nations" ... 291 CHAPTER VIII. The Solemn Days of Life ... 292 Charge a.,~nst Religious Ministers ... 293 Ministerial Faithfubiess 243 The Lord's La.nd for the Lord's People 294 The Ca11Ses of Divine Judgments are Prophet and Prophet 295 more particule.rly specified 244 Gibeah and Baa.1-peor 296 The Justice or the Judgments threat- Ephraim's Woe ... 297 ened with Further Additions 248 Isre.el an:d J ude.h both in the Tre.ns- gression 250 CHAPTER X. A Trumpet-Blast of Judgment 251 Sin and its Retribution 30S Bin its own Punishment 252 Israel's Sin, Borrow, Shame, and Su:ff"er- Ree.ping the Whirlwind 253 ing 309 Holy Scripture, and Me.n's N egleot of it 254 A Chequered Picture 311 On knowing God . . . 255 The Proli1io Fruits of Evil .. . 3H Sin's Mookery of the Sinner 257 The Calves and the Kings .. . 3H " What she.ll the Harvest be ? " 258 National Prosperity and Calamity 316 The Inspiro.tion of Scripture 259 The Divided Heart 317,321 Israel's Ory 261 Moral Abasement ... 31~ The Brokon Idol . . . 261 Spiritual Husbandry 320 Bowing the Wind and reaping tho " Foam upon the Water" 322 Whirlwind 262 Despair ... 32:! Hired Lovers 262 Prepare for the Time of Divine Favour 323 '.rJ1e Maker forgotten 263 The Abuse of Worldly Prosperity 32:'l The Conventional Ohuroh ... 263 Social Sins and their Result 321 The Abandonment of Goocl, and the The Divine Voioe to a Worthless Con■equont Pursuit of Evil 264 People cl:.'.i HOREA. ~ ll I~DEX..
TTTT•:'f'R J',\(°';F; TREMR rAOII The Empty Vinr ... 323 GO<l Faithful, hie People_ °O;nfai,thful ., !!02 The End of Calt-WorBhip :,2i Balances of Deceit • ... ... -~~1: r:uit ana Present ... 32S Preeervcd by a Prophet , ·:.~ ' 3~5 lllural Husbandry 328