...which the Lord imputed to the Jews by the mouth of the Prophet Isaiah, " The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know; my people doth not consider."* The goodness of our Creator affords every man a vast field for reflection ; and subjects of the highest...

...Isaiah says, (speaking of the then most moral part of human kind,) " The ox knowetb hij owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know; my people doth not consider." •' The whole head is sick,, and the heart is faint," &c. Isaiah i. S, 5. And weeping Jeremiah assures...

...nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me ! 3. The ox knoweth his owner, And the ass his master's crib ; ' But' Israel doth not know, My people doth not understand, &c. t What would be the consequence, the song has told us — the rejection of that...

...members of other sentences, by means of some additional connexion ; as, " The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib ; but Israel doth not know, my people do not consider.' This sentence consists of two compounded members, each of which is subdivided into...

...brought up children, and they have rebelled agaiust me: The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass. bis master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters...

...nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." Is. 1, 2, 3. The bounties of Providence, therefore, call aloud for our open acknowledgments; but the...

...nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib ; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. (1 Is. 2, 3.) 9. What is the character of the human heart? The heart is deceitful above all things,...

...than to almost any other sinner, is addressed that humbling rebuke, ' The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib ; but Israel doth not know ; my people doth not consider.' At the same time, the Sabbath is to be regarded with peculiar joy. All things relating to the Sabbath...

...ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND CONSIDERATION. ISAIAH I. 3. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. IT would appear, from this verse, that the children of Israel neither knew nor considered — but still...

...sinners is frequently exposed in the sacred writings. "The ox knoweth his owner," says Isaiah, " and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider." Isaiah i. 3. "Every one turneth to his course," says Jeremiah, " as the horse rusheth into the battle....