_Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty._ GREAT CRIMES NOT ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY GREAT PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE I. Great crimes have prevailed on the earth from the earliest times. Amongst the crimes specified in this chapter there is-- 1. Theft. There were those who stole from others the... [ Continue Reading ]
_Men groan from out of the city._ THE GROANS OF THE CITY The truth is, man as he walketh upon the surface of the earth, seeth but the surface of its inhabitants. Well is it that we see no more. Were we able to go under the surface, though it were but slightly, our knowledge might make us go mad. It... [ Continue Reading ]
_Rebel against the light._ LIGHT USED FIGURATIVELY Light may be considered in two ways. Either properly or figuratively. 1. We may understand the text of light in a proper sense, and some insist chiefly on that. They rebel against the very light of the sun, or the ordinary daylight. Wicked men lo... [ Continue Reading ]
_The terrors of the shadow of death._ DEATH Scripture speaks of death in two ways. Job calls death “the King of Terrors.” Of a saint and martyr it is said, “He fell asleep.” I. What is it that makes death terrible? 1. It is the rending asunder of what God has joined together. Body and soul. What... [ Continue Reading ]
_Yet His eyes are upon thy ways._ GOD OBSERVES THE WAYS OF THE WICKED To call them to account for them. We have here a threefold act of providence about wicked oppressors, whom yet God suffereth to prosper. 1. That God’s eye is upon them, to mark all their debordings. 2. That after their exaltat... [ Continue Reading ]