...brought up children, and they have rebelled agaiust me: The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass. bis master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people...sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters ! they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy...

...Like thy people of old, while we have been greatly distinguished by privileges, we have also been a sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters. We have forsaken the Lord, and have provoked the holy one of Israel. And chiefly, now, we would confess...

...country. Like thy people of old, while we have been greatly distinguished by privileges, we have also a sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters. We have forsaken the Lord, and have provoked the holy one of Israel. And chiefly, now, we would confess...

...which the Lord imputed to the Jews by the mouth of the Prophet Isaiah, " The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know; my people doth not consider."* The goodness of our Creator affords every man a vast field for reflection ; and subjects of the highest...

...fully show. Isaiah i. 2, 3, 4. " Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earlh; for the Lord hath spoken : I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knowelh his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my peopk doth not consider....

...had not bad sin : but now, they have no clokefor tkeir sin. Isai. i. 3. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Jer. v. 3. O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hnst stricken them, but they have not grieved...

...have nourished and brought.up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib ; but Israel doth not know; my people doth not consider.' The ox and ass, which are dull and stupid creatures, do upbraid their ingratitude, who are not affected...

...Isaiah says, (speaking of the then most moral part of human kind,) " The ox knowetb hij owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know; my people doth not consider." •' The whole head is sick,, and the heart is faint," &c. Isaiah i. S, 5. And weeping Jeremiah assures...

...daily to his face, and, as it were, bid defiance to him with our sins. " The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider," Isaiah, i. 3 ; neither Israel then, nor those who are called Christians now. The sun knoweth his time...

...nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me ! 3. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib ; ' But' Israel doth not know, My people doth not understand, &c. t What would be the consequence, the song has told us — the rejection of that...