...they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds. HOSEA vii. 14. 173. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help. HOSEA xiii. 9. 174. O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God ; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity....

...The word sisrni/ic's, the mo'tth, MURDER. Every sinner is a soul murderer. Hence the prophet saith, " O Israel thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thine help," Hos. xiii. 9. MUSIC. Of the music of the Old Testament scripture it is no easy matter to form a right...

...he would soon be overwhelmed by despair. In the Bible they are placed side by side. Hosen xiii. 9. "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thine help." Here is the evil and its remedy : destruction in and from self ; salvation in and from God. Two things...

...and are gone out by it : and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord on the head of them."2 " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself ; but in Me is thine help. I will be thy King : where is any other that may save 1 1 Sam. xvii. 34, 35. 2 Micah ii. 12, 13. thee...

...peace with me." Isa. xxvii. 5. Moreover, it falls in precisely with this language of the Eternal God, "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thine help." Hos. xiii. 9. But this leads to my last general remark. 5. There is a divine drawing; and, thank God,...

...Destruction is thy own, O Israel ; thy help is only in me " ; or, as the Protestant Bible has it, " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help." Hence the destruction and the ruin of the wicked come from themselves, from their own malicious course,...

...good worla to faith, and calling upon GOD.' 1. Divine Testimony. A. Old Testament. Hos. xiii. 9, " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine help." — See also Gen. viii. 21. B. New Testament. John xv. 5, " Without Me (CHRIST) ye can do nothing"...

...betwixt thee and everlasting burnings. See also your utter inability to help yourselves, by yourselves. " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself : but in me is thine help." Such a sight the prodigal got, " I perish, said he, with hunger." Look to your crimson guilt, and you...

...had been powerful in him, by the effects produced; and a sense of this truth he possessed, viz. : " O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help." (Hosea xiii. 9.) And this he was seeking, from life received, but from want of mature understanding...

...6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses ore as filthy rags. Hos. xiii. 9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thine help. Isa. xlv. 24, 25. Surely, shall one say, in the Lord I have righteousness and strength ; even to him...