Wesley Corpus

11, 12.) “Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink l’’ (Verse 22.) “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion; that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music; that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: But they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.” (Amos vi. 1, 4-6.) “Behold,” saith Ezekiel to Jerusalem, “this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, fulness of bread and abundance of idle ness was in her and in her daughters.” (xvi. 49.) 8. From sloth and fulness of bread, lewdness naturally fol lowed. It was even while Moses was with them, that “the people begantocommit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.” Yea, of the daughters of Zion Isaiah complains: “They walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes.” (iii. 16.) And of his people in general God complains by Jeremiah: “When I had fed them to the full, they assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. They were as fed horses in the morning: Every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.” (v. 7, 8.) “They be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.” (ix. 2.) “The land is full of adulterers.” (xxiii. 10.) Yea, and some of them were given up to unnatural lusts: Thus we read: “The men of Gibeah beset the house,” wherein the stranger was, “and beat at the door, and spake to the mas ter of the house, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.” (Judges xix. 22.) “And there were also,” long after, “Sodomites in the land,” in the days of Rehoboam, and of the following kings: “The very show of whose countenance witnessed against them, and they declared their sin as Sodom, they hid it not.” (Isaiah iii. 9.) 9. This was accompanied with injustice in all its forms. Thus all the Prophets testify against them: “The Lord looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.” (Isaiah v.