...censured somethings as vicious and criminal, which were, perhaps, really innocent and laudable. But alas! how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed' We are fallen far into the opposite extreme. For near twenty years past, various causes have united...

...perished glory of human nature. Into what degradation and misery is it now plunged by transgression ? How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed ? The building once stood fair and firm; all its parts proportioned with infinite wisdom, and its height...

...rotte nness entered into my bones ; and [ trembled .in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion,...

...perished glory of human nature. Into what degradation and misery is it n^w plunged by°transgression ? " How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed ?" The building once stood fair and firm ; all its parts proportioned with infinite wisdom, and its...

...unto them. 66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. CHAP. IV. JTlOW is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion,...

...when contrasted with the congregations of the Flavels, the äowcs, or the Baxters, of a former age! " How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed !" Two years afterwards, in the year 1805, he left the ministry, and cultivated a small farm in Hertfordshire....

...anger none escaped nor remained : those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion,...

...restrain ing of prayer, which sooner or later, will pierce the soul through and through with sorrow. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! O thou worldly spirit, thou perverted reason, and Thou — Thou base unbelief, together ye have unnerved...

...once were ; and we can only deplore the loss of original righteousness in the words of the prophet : " how is the gold become dim ; how is the most fine gold changed ; the crown is fallen from our heads ; woe unto us for we have sinned." God made man upright, but he...

...is the glory whicli adorned the soul as it came out of the iiands of its Maker ? Lord, what is man! How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! in place of the divine image, are seen the black marks of iniquity. Could you enter a temple in ruins,...