...applied in a great Meafure to degenerate backfliding Churches. God declared to the Jews by the Prophet Amos, You only have I known of all the Families of the Earth, therefore I will puni/h you for all your Iniquities. Amos iii. 2. He had ditf inguimed them above other Nations, by...

...above what is written. Saith the Lord, " you only have I known (with the love of a tender father) of all the families of the earth, THEREFORE I will punish you for ALL your iniquities.".. ..Amos iii. 2. Who can say what a hell of agonies Peter felt when he wept bitterly ? He fully experienced...

...15. " Now I fhall answer thee, from these chapters. I said of the Jews, — You only have I known, of all the- families of the earth; therefore I will punish you, for all your iniquities. Now these were my» threatenings to the Jews, as I had done more for them than for other nations ;...

...sheaves, which goes heavily, and is ready to break under the burden. III. 2 Feu only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. You only have I chosen out from all other nations for my peculiar people, and have bestowed much cost...

...guiltless because they did not belong to it. On the contrary, he says, " You only have I known " of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish " you for all your iniquities."* Learned men agree that three days, and three nights, in the Hebrew idiom, denote any portion of time...

...men. And God will not suffer them to pass without correction, Amos iii. 2. ' You only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore I will punish you for your iniquities.' This justifies God in all the evils that bcfal them. 2. All the trials and sufferings...

...against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth : therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. 3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed ? 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no...

...design of grace. This is implied in his address to Israel, Amos iii. 2, " You only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." They are designed in a particular manner as warnings to fly from the wrath to come, and should be viewed...

...with such tokens of his presence; to them, therefore, he might justly say, " Ton only have I known of all the families of the earth ; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." Those iniquities were indeed numerous and aggravated ; they are charged with being " stiff-necked and...

...loved? Rev. iii. 19. And how striking is that passage from the mouth of God : ' You only have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities,' Amos iii. 2. But, say some, " The grossest sins which believers can commit, cannot do them the least...