...scene which the shocking corruptions of christianity exhibit, we may well exclaim with the prophet, How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed. But the thorough examination of every thing relating to christianity, which has been produced by the...

...that spiritual death, and all its consequences, were comprehended in the extent of the threatening. How is the gold become dim ? how is the most fine gold changed ? Who, beholding the fearful change, can reflect on man's original beauty of holiness, and withhold...

...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 garments motheaten!" How poor is wealth, and how mean are honors!...

...that spiritual death, and all its consequences, were compre-hended in the extent of the threatening. How is the gold become dim ? how is the most fine gold changed ? Who, beholding the fearful change, can reflect on man's original beauty cf holiness, and withhold...

...name ;" but may also take up this bitter complaint and lamentation — " Ah, Scotland, Scotland ! ' How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed !' Ah ! where is the God of Elijah, and where is his glory ! Where is that Scottish zeal which once...

...sayer knows to be essentially contrary to the fact and reality. How are the mighty fallen ! 11 '•( is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed ! 1 What a great and mournful departure has Abram made from the way of God, and the simplicity of faith...

...read, and talk himself into it, at pleasure ? Oh, doth she not say in the spirits of the faithful, " 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 ?" And oh, especially, to you,...

...the mournful prospect revives in my mind the plaintive language of the prophet, when he exclaimed, " How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed !" and again ; " Our silver has become dross; our wine is mixed with water." What can we expect from...

...in transcendent brightness !" — MILTON. had been so lately pronounced by his God " very good." " How is the gold become dim — how is the most fine gold changed ! the crown has fallen from his head, for he has sinned." That fear of the divine vengeance formed...

...that great nation, that has had God so nigh unto them as the Lord their God was unto Israel ?" " But how is the gold become dim ; how is the most fine gold changed!" Lam. iv. 1. " How does the city sit solitary that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow...