...Being who is provoked, and complaining of the ill success of his labour ? He says to Israel, " All the day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." I know well enough that the same book which teaches us all these things teaches us likewise how to...

...that sought me not ; 1 was made manifest unto them that asked not after me. 21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. CHAP. XI. Not all Israel rejected. I!" SAY then, Hath God cast JL away his people ? God forbid. I1...

...indifference. Like the manna to the murmuring Israelites — to such is applicable the charge of the Prophet. " All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." These privileges should not have been confined to mere profession. The foolish virgins professed ;...

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...counsel, and would none of my reproof." — Esaias saith, " Lord, who hath believed our report ? All the day long I have stretched forth my hands, unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." Sinners in every age, and in every country, and in every variety of circumstances, have, with one consent,...

...prophet preached, not receiving his testimony as coming from God, gave occasion to his saying, Ail day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient, and (because an unbelieving) gainsaying people. The Apostle is still more express to this point in Heb....

...be honour and glory for ever. Amen. SERMON V. The little Success of Christ's Ministry. ROMANS x. 21. All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. A HE object that St. Paul presents to our view in the text, makes very different impressions on the...

...believed our report ? and to whom is the aim of the Lord revealed ?" Again, hear the lamentation. " All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." This is the language of bitter disappointment ; and yet, if twenty, or I forty, or sixty, are converted...

...or a hindrance, to consider attentively and prayerfully what is said by that "God who cannot lie." "All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient people." "The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that nil, should come to repentance."...

...words can be more plain than these which follow, and they are emphatically the words of Christ — " All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people." While this proves the dreadful depravity of the human heart, it demonstrates also the entire inefficacy...