Wesley Corpus

35, 37.) “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us.” (viii. 8.) “The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are we.” (vii. 4.) 15. Thus it was that they hardened themselves in their wick edness: “They are impudent children,” saith God, “and stiff hearted.” (Ezekiel ii. 4.) “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush.” (Jer. vi. 15.) “I have spread out my hand all the day to a rebellious people, that provoketh me to anger continually to my face.” (Isai. lxv. 2, 3.) “They will not hearken unto me, saith the Lord; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.” (Ezekiel iii. 7.) “Since the day that their fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto them all my servants the Prophets, rising up early and sending them: Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck; they did worse than their fathers.” (Jer. vii. 25, 26.) They were equally hardened against mercies and judgments: When He “gave them rain, both the former and the latter in his season;” when “He reserved unto them the appointed weeks of the harvest,” filling their hearts with food and glad ness, still none of this “revolting and rebellious people said, Let us now fear the Lord our God; ” (Jer. v. 23, 24;) nor yet did “they turn unto him when he smote them.” (Isaiah ix. 13.) “In that day did the Lord call to weeping and to mourning: And behold joy and gladness, eating flesh and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.” (Isaiah xxii. 12, 13.) Although “he consumed them, yet they refused to receive instruction; thcy made their faces harder than a rock.-- Nonerepented him, but everyone turned to his course, as a horse rusheth into the battle.” (Jer. v. 3; viii. 6.) “I have given you want of bread in all your places, yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. I have also withholden the rain from you when there were yet three months unto the harvest. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew : Your gardens and your vineyards, the palmer worm devoured.