...: " I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried, in the fire, that thou mayest be rich," Apoc. iii. 18. "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,...

...term of communion, in that which was once a genuine hranch of the Catholic and Apostolic Church. " How is the gold become dim ! How is the most fine gold changed !" Lament, iv. 3. " Turn thou them unto thee, O Lord, and they shall he turned ; renew their days as...

...didst make man but a little lower than the angels, and didst crown him with glory and honor. But, alas! how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! Man, created in honor, did not abide, but apostatized from thee his Maker, and incurred thine everlasting...

...bewaileth her pitiful estate. 13 She confesselh her sins. 1 ' Edom is threatened. 22 Zion is contorted. en that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking f ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion,...

...domestic happiness which formerly gladdened the dwelling of Mr. Lindsley, it might well be said, " How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed !" From the Sunday that his wife and daughter received baptism, his views and feelings seemed totally...

...language of the mourning prophet, a language -j it т more pertinent than on the present occasion — " how is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed !" Tiler. Man's soul is rational and eternal ; is the oflspring of the Deity, and capable of resembling...

...22. ', A. tó. cir. 3116. BCcir. 588. Ol. XLVIM. 1/ Tarquinii Prisci, K Roman., cir. annum Ü9. TTOW t through ; and every one that is joined unto them ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out' a in the top of every, street. 2 Th,e precious sons of...

...iii, 18 ) When this is even but a little disregarded, the prophet laments the state in these words : " How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed !" (Lam. iv. 1.) GRASS. Scientific truth, or that truth of the church and of faith, which first springs...

...with what sensations would he think of the pomp of earthly vanities and the pride of human life ? " How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine " gold changed!" How discordant would be the sounds of revel or the murmurings of discontent to ears which had just...

...scene which the shocking corruptions of christianity exhibit, we may well exclaim with the prophet, How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed. But the thorough examination of every thing relating to christianity, which has been produced by the...