...that say In the pride and stoutness of heart, Thn brick* are fallen down, but we will build with hewn eace.wlth them that cull un the Lord out of a pure heart. 1 Pete cedar«. Amos v, 11 Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell In them Hob. II, 11....

...stricken sinner says, like Ephraim, " The 'bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone ; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars." (Isai. ix. 10; Jer. v. 3; Isai. Ivii. 10; Amos iv. 6-10.) It was, we may suppose, in such a spirit...

...their sinful self-reliance, and said — " The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones ; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars " (Isa. ix. 10). The fruit of the sycamore is specially referred to in Amos vii. 14, which see. " Solomon...

...fallen down again and again: for men say, " The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars." This makes humbling work very longsome; we are so hard to quit hold of the creature, to fall off from...

...fallen down again and again : for men say, " The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn ribed to Christ. Phil. iii. 21, — "Who shall change our vile body, that Isa. ix. 10. This makes humbling work very tedious ; we are so hard tu quit hold of the creature, to...

..." say in the pride and stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars." Nothing can be more offensive to God than such stubbornness as this ; — " In tiie time of his distress...

...and cedars made he to be as the sycamoretrees that are in the vale for abundance" (1 Kings x. 27) : " The sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars" (Is. ix. 10). It loved a low, warm situation ; hence we read of " the sycamore-trees that were in the...

...that say, in the pride and stoutness of heart, The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn 4 , < ̮1 NJ x, o 瞅9,d=2 ( M/j ˁ (ix. 9, 10; see also bcv. 3). Bricks, and especiaUy unburnt bricks, are poor materials for building...

...say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn way those th`H 11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;...

...pride and naughtiness of our hearts, ' The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stone ; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.'" The church has happily escaped restoration, as I think it is important that some churches should be...