...the whole head sick, and the whole heart faint. Sin disorders all the faculties of the soul, so that from the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is no soundness ; they are all corrupt, and the corruption will as certainly end in the destruction of the soul, as...

...forsaken the Lord ; they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger : they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more ? Ye will revolt...in it, but wounds and bruises and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment : your country is desolate...

...assuage." On such a review of the ruin brought upon human nature, does it not appear, that " the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint? From the sole...; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores." Parents would rejoice, if the calamity were limited to themselves, but they find the evil transmitted...

...is continued through several verses, each heightening the effect of the preceding : " The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it ; (Rut) wounds, and stripes, and recent sores : They have...

...better be a chastened son, than an undisciplined bastard. There is no anger to that ia J.sa)iah, " why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more :"f That in Eze-p kiel, " I will make my fury towards thee tQ.restj and, my jealousy shall depart from...

...desperate is the condition of a people to whom the expostulation comett at last to be addressed, " Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more." Though far removed, we are glad to believe, from the precise conditions which have made the signal...

...came upon man and beast i. In a spiritual sense, it is said of the corrupt state of the evil doers, " From the sole of the foot even unto the head there...is no soundness in it ; but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores r ; " " before me continually is grief and wounds*;" " the Lord shall smite thee in...

...the Minorca crisis as the symptom of a diseased political system, taking its motto from Isaiah i. 6, 'From the Sole of the Foot even unto the Head there...in it but wounds and bruises and putrifying Sores.' 73 Patriots accused the Old Corps Whigs of insinuating themselves into royal favour by their subservience...

...now is. I speak of the organization, without any reference to the individuals who compose the party. "From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there...is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment"4 —...

...failure. Because of sin, we all face certain death if we do not receive a new heart from a worthy donor. "Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint." Isaiah 1:5. King David understood this fearful reality. When he allowed lust and...