_Set on a pot._ THE BOILING CAULDRON: THE DOINGS AND DOOM OF A WICKED CITY I. The sins of any city are an offence to God. 1. Seen by Him. The whole city in its greed for gain, its intemperance, its hollowness, its lust. 2. Seen by Him with anger. He is a Moral Governor, and has the moral nature... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness._ OBSTINACY IN SIN 1. Obstinacy in sin provokes God to the destruction of sinners. “Her scum shall be in the fire.” Jerusalem shall be burnt, and why? “In thy filthiness is lewdness”; thou art obstinate, hardened in thy wickedness. All sin offends, som... [ Continue Reading ]
_So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded._ SIN THE WORST SORROW I. Other sorrows may have no evil, but even good in them; this is essentially and eternally evil. In a bereavement, in a national calamity, as also in bodily suf... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?_ AN ANCIENT QUESTION MODERNISED Just as Ezekiel, at his Lord’s command, did many strange things entirely with a view to other people, we must remember that many things that we do have some relation to others. As long as we are... [ Continue Reading ]