...your own ways; tremble, lest that come upon you which is written, Prov. i. 24°—31. Consider that " he that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." One word I must add, lest what I have said should be mistaken by some to whom it does not apply. There...

...his ministers is indeed an awful sign. We fear for those who will not listen to admonitions. For ' he that, being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.' [Proverbs xxix. lJ Ahab had, probably, become more obdurate through his late reprieve, and promised...

...are acquiring an additional degree of hardness; and let us take warning from the declaration, that 'He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.' But, if we do experience something of that joy and love which the gospel describes, and have thus reason...

...to a hardened heart, to a reprobate mind, of which the sad consequence must be utter destruction. " He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy0." Let it be our care, my friends, that we fall not into this condemnation. Let the fatherly...

...in their sins and have no remedy. " If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins."§ " He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."^ To those, who thus die and are destroyed, no hope is left. They do not repent between death and the...

...it be -too late, you would take this awful scripture into serious consideration, Prov. Rjtix. 1. ' He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without rejeedy.' (3.) It certainly argues your unxeformednese, that twice, and that not in a very civil manner,...

...hopes, and piercing us through with many sorrows. Wretched delusion J fearful case ! for " he who, being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." Pray that this may not be the result with me. Pray that, having paissed .under the rod, I may not be...

...who can bear.'"' (3.) It is unavoidable to such as will go on impenitently in their sinful course : " He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...suddenly" be destroyed, and that without remedy." We may now fly from it indeed, by flying to Jesus Christ ; but such as fly from Christ, shall never...

...speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Eccl. viii. 1 1. But " he that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." Prov. xxix. 1. Some are cut off in youth, others are spared, and persist in wickedness till they are...

...reproved, as the inhabitants of Sodom had been by Lot, as appears by Gen. xix. 9. Prov. xxix. I. " He that being often reproved, hardeneth his neck,...shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy." There is a special resemblance between the destruction of Sodom, and the destruction that is foretold...