Hosea 6:1 I. These words declare that the motive of every Divine judgment, within the limits of this life, is mercy: the end of every affliction, however crushing, is the restoration of a sinner to the peace and the love of God. Within the limits of this life, I say. Thus far our vision stretches.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hosea 5:13 ; HOSEA 6:2 So Ephraim and Judah went to the wrong person, and did not gain much by their application. The same fatal error is being perpetrated by multitudes amongst us still. The error is as ancient as Cain, and as modern as today. I. It is pretty plain that Israel could not choose to... [ Continue Reading ]
Hosea 6:3 The infatuation of knowledge is the curse of life; the desire to know unsettles life. We honour the knower, the man who has eaten most of the sad fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Yet what is most of our knowledge? Think of a man in a churchyard, spelling out the inscription... [ Continue Reading ]
Hosea 6:4 We sometimes hear it taken for granted that there are men who live and die without any serious thoughts. It may be so. But of the far larger class it may assuredly be said that they have, from time to time, their painful misgivings, their agitating fears, their keen convictions; and that... [ Continue Reading ]