...do them ; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And lo» thou art unto them as a very lovely song...instrument; for they hear thy words, but they do them not." Ezek. xxxiii. 31, 32. The gospel is also in effect despised when it is attended to for unworthy purposes;...

...will not do them ; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after covetousness. And lo ! thou art unto them as a very lovely song...instrument ; for they hear thy words, but they do them not. Thus you recollect, that though pleasure may be made the vehicle of instruction, yet it must not be...

...them ; for •with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of...; for they hear thy words, but they do them not." Ezek. 33 : 31, 32. See also Mark, 6 : 20 ; John, 5 : 35. Experience shows that persons, from the influence...

...salvation continued to be what it seemed at first; the joy and rejoicing of their hearts, or only " as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument, who hear the words, but they do them not,"* that I devised a plan by which information might be obtained....

...hia discourses, and to be greatly charmed with the ingenuity and eloquence of his public addresses. " Lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant Voice, arid can play well on an instrument." v. 32. — But however well pleased they might be with his style...

...explained ; for we know, that the word of the prophet was to the covetous and hypocritical Israelites, as a very lovely song, of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well upon an instrument ; and we have our blessed Lord's authority, confirmed, too, by multiplied experience,...

...! These are not new characters. In the thirty-third chapter of Ezekiel, God says to his prophet, ' Lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song, of one...instrument : for they hear thy words, but they do them not — their heart goeth after their co'vetousness.' And, for St. Paul, he was only one of the same stamp,...

...sajig his praise. They soon forgat his works ; they waited not for his counsel, Psal. cvi. 12, 13. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song...well on an instrument : for they hear thy words, but thpy do them not, Ezek. xxxiii. 32. He was a burning and a shining light ; and ye were willing for...

...they shew much love, /'/if their heart goeth after their covetoilmen. 32 And lo, thou art unto them aa e, (or they have overcome me : thy hair uu a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 33 And when this cometh to pass, ( lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been...

...delivered ! Such persons attended Ezekiel. " Lo thou art to them," said the Lord to his prophet, " as a very lovely song of one that hath a " pleasant...instrument : for they hear thy words but they do them "not."1 The captious hearer likewise requires to be no ticed. He comes on purpose to criticize and...