...others about trifles, which occasion so much misery, and so many crimes in the world. Hefeedethonashes,a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a liein my right hand ?\—Once open to him the perfect sources of knowledge and truth ; suppose him...

...what can he propose to gain ? He feedeth on ashes : A deceived heart hath turned him aside, that lie 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 your meditation in religious...

...in unrighteousness."* The wretched victim of antinomianism as well as the stupid idolater, " feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside,...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 them, and first...

...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...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 die in the Lord:...

...the words of the prophet, though spoken immediately of idolaters, will more fully apply i He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside,...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 many sincere minds have...

...cxxvii. 1. Man's goings are of the Lord: JLOW 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 there not a lie in? &c. — Isa. xliv. 20. O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that...

...idolaters, will more fully apply : He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, tJtat 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 many sincere minds have...

...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:...

...that they cannot see, and their hearts that they cannot understand. .... He (the idolater) feedeth on ashes ; a deceived heart hath turned him aside,...soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand ?"* The other inspired writers also charge the Hebrews with being unable to understand the way of the...

...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...he cannot deliver his 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...