...darkness ; he reigns in darkness, and by darkness. Sinners little think where he is leading them. " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. i. 17. The silly birds are wiser than sinners. Sinners are told of their danger, but to no purpose....

...without one cry for mercy, and eternally curse their folly, in being the dupes of such a delusion ! " Surely " in vain is the net spread in the sight of any " bird." You evidently see the design of Satan in this temptation: he aims only to lull you into security, till...

...of the vanity of all such flatteries. Be afraid of that which you are sure is the devil's bait.: i' Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," Prov. i. 17. You are not only told in the scriptures, that sinners are generally thus allured to hell,...

...of the vanity of all such flatteries. Be afraid of that swhich you arc sure is the devil's bait : " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Prov. i. 17. You are not only told in the scriptures, that sinners are generally thus allured to hell,...

...and his ways, that he may not enter into this temptation, nor be in any degree influenced by it? " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Wherever there is an enlightened and spiritual sincerity, to know the danger is to he guarded against...

...without one cry for mercy, and eternally curse their folly, in being the dupes of such a delusion ! " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of " any bird." You evidently sec the design of Satan in this temptation : he aims only to lull you into security,...

...prevalency upon the mind in drawing it off from its watch and circumspection. Says the wise man, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before 192 the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. If it hath eyes open to...

...prevalency upon the mind in drawing it off" from its watch and circumspection. Says the wise man, " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird," or, before the eyes of every thing that hath a wing, as in the original. If it hath eyes open to discern...

...upon the mind, in drawing it off from its watch and circumspection. Says the wise man, Prov. i. 17. ' Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird;' or before the eyes of every thing that hath a wirtg, as in the original. If it- hath eyes open to discern...

...of God, but often trespassing and rebelling more and more. Man learns not by his own experience. " Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird." The meanest of quadrupeds will shun snares and traps. Few beasts will drink intoxicating liquors ;...