...we obey, in order to our final acceptance through his merits," with disappointment and regret I cry, How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! A foundation, for what? Aspasio would reply, For pardon, for reconciliation, and for everlasting...

...the language of the mourning prophet, a Ianguage nevermore pertinent than on the present occasion, 'how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed 1' Ther. Man's soul is rational and eternal, is the offspring of the Deity, and capable of resembling...

...should we make the ungodly and profane skulk into corners, and hide their impious heads! But, alas! how is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed! for from the prophet* of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land'. Dissenters are increasing,...

...sorrow led him to plead in their behalf, and to intercede for them, that they died not. Alas, 'ho\v is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed !' That heart which once bore Israel upon it, in prayer to the throne of God, is now filled with wrath...

...bewailcth her pitiful .estate. 13 Slie confaieth her tint. 21 Edm. it threatened. 22 Zion it comforted. 1 How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion,...

...that sorrow led him to plead in their behalf, and to intercede for them, that they died not. Alas, " how is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed ! " That heart which once bore Israel upon it, in prayer to the throne of God, is now filled with wrath...

...this mournful catastrophe, and saying, " How art thou fallen from heaven, O son of the morning!" " How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed ! The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the...

...didst make man but little lower than the angels, and didst crown him with glory and honour. But. alas! how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! Man, created in honour, did not abide, but apostatized from thee his Maker, and incurred thine everlasting...

...spiritual prosperity in those primitive ages, we may with too much justice take up the lamentation—• " How is the gold become dim: how is the most fine gold changed!" But, blessed be God, his holy word cheers us with the prospect of better times—sets before us, as...

...stranger would you find yourself in the midst of those things among which you were perfectly at home ! " How is the gold become " dim, how is the most fine gold changed !" " How are the riches corrupted, and the gar" ments moth-eaten !'' How poor is wealth, and how mean...