...the rock of his salvation. Hear, O " heavens, and give ear, O earth ; f ir the Lord hath " spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, " and they have rebelled against me." And is not this our case ? ....They have told us, that when a nation is under the corrections of the Almighty,...

...deceitful bow, as the psalmist speaks of unfaithful Israel, and as tlwi prophet Isaiah afterwards : " I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me :" and calls them ;i " sinful nation', a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters, that have forsaken...

...jack-daws, which are never ungrateful. " Hear, O heavens ! and give ear, O earth ! for the Lord hath spoken. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me ! " And then immediately after our Heavenly Father produces the comparison of a contrary principle of gratitude...

...children of disobedience and of wrath." This was the charge which He preferred against Israel of old, " I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." And it is equally true of all mankind. " But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he...

...virtuous. And therefore don't 'let the mild government of this blessed country have it to say, •' I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." And next as to the GAME LAWS. What advantage would it be to us Birmingham people to have a right to go...

...O heavens, and give ear, O earth ; let the whole creation be witness of this unnatural baseness ; / have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me! And it is the height of injustice too ; every benefit obliging, not only to a thankful acknowledgment,...

...acquainted with their grief. With what confidence can they appeal to that Being, who thus himself complains, "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me ;" and who, with all a parent's tenderness, wept over Jerusalem, saying, " How often would I have gathered...

...earth would rise up to confront him : " Hear O heavens, and give ear O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me." And, my friends, mark the aggravating circumstances with which that rebellion is there characterized. In...

...the full fountain of my own troubled feelings—hard is it to check at all times the gush of these. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me;" and, overpowered by the emotions he in general more effectually restrained, thfi priest threw himself into...

...with their grief. With what confidence can they appeal to that Being, who thus himself complains, " I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me : " and who, with all a parent's tenderness, wept over Jerusalem, saying, " How often would I have gathered...