...I clothe the heavens with " blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering," says, in the sixth, " I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks " to...hair: I hid not my face from " shame and spitting." — The same speaker, resuming the style of Deity, says of his enemies, in the close of the chapter,...

...(/; " Scourged Jesus." Isaiah, speaking prophetically in the person of Christ, Isaiah 1. 6. says, " I gave my back to " the smiters, and my cheeks to...off the hair : I hid not " my face from shame and spitting.1' The indignities to which our Saviour submitted for us, should increase our gratitude to...

...did Jesus Christ, as was foretold by Isaiah, chap. 1. 5. where Christ saith by his Spirit, " The Lord hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither...gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them who plucked off the hair ; I hid not my face from shame and spitting." And in the days of his flesh,...

...nation ; for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them...plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and slitting. I have trodden the wine press alone, and of the people there was none with me. I looked and...

...acknowledging, feeling the superiority of real goodness. Thus then learn, O man, to arm thyself, and say, " the Lord God will help me : therefore shall I not...a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed." From the inexhaustible store of Scriptun draw thy resources for the warfare, and thou shalt find thyself...

...stroke on his g'orious body, and many a buffet of the unbelieving world, and says of himself, Isa. 1, 6. 'I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them...hair ; I hid not my face from shame and spitting, follow him, and think not hard that you receive a blow with your Lord; take part with Jesus of his...

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...prophets, and referred to its proper principle: "I gave my "back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them who pluck"ed off the hair. I hid not my face from shame...a "flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed." Stand still and tee this great sight! Behold the sufferer, not a desponding and cowardly, but a bold...

...the people," &c. On this rock he built his faith, and could not be moved. " The Lord " God, says he, hath opened mine ear, and I was not " rebellious,...plucked off the hair : I hid not my face from shame tc and spitting : for the Lord God will help me, there«' fore shall I not be confounded : therefore...

...me thrice. And when he thought thereon he wept. Tuesday before Easter. For the Epistle. Isaiah 1. 5. THE Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious,...like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed. He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is mine adversary?...