...is a right hand of falsehood.—Isaiah, xliv. 20. He feadeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath tnrned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ? The allusion is probably to the ceremony of holding up the hand in swearing, or in giving a vote,...

...created it. thereof an abomination ? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree ? 20 He feedeth on ashes : s unto the high places, and see where thou hast not...In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabia ? 21 If Remember these, O Jacob and Israel ; for thou art my servant : I have formed thee ; thou art...

...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 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...

...not. — He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God." "A deceived heart hath turned him aside that he cannot...nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?" "If — thine eye be single thy whole body shall be full of light; but if thine eye be evil thy whole body...

...himself, and suffers him to imagine that he is in reality what he pretends to be. " He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot...soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand ?" Isa. xliv. 20. ( To be concluded in our next.) (For the Spiritual Magazine.) AN ADDRESS TO A BACKSLIDING...

...for an object, and then we become blind to its defects and evils. " He feedeth on ashes : a deceitful heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver...soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?"* The heart corrupfed, perverts the judgment. Hence there are men so infatuated as to "call evil good...

...fall down to the stock of a tree ? He feedeth of ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ?* If God lets men alone, no light arises : but the darkness grows thicker and thicker. How is it now, at...

...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 he cannot...soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand?" (Isai. xliv. SO.) Of the other, the Scripture saith, " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord :...

...— te them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together. He feedah on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot...his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right tod r Isa. xliv. 1 1 and 20. The mighty work of God, wrought in the very centre of <he Roman Catholic...

...fall down to the stock of a tree ? He feedeth of ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand ?* If God lets men alone, no light arises : but the darkness grows thicker and thicker. How is it now, at...