Ezekiel 12

The word for care, [illegible], comes from a primitive in the Greek, that signifies to cut the heart in pieces. Care does discruciate the mind, waste the spirits: no such bitter bread as the bread of carefulness (Ezekiel 12:19). Care is a spiritual canker which eats out the comf…

[reconstructed: Care to prevent future dangers and preserve present comfort] — all care is full of fear, and fear is full of torment (1 John 4:18). God threatens it as a judgment (Ezekiel 12:19): they shall eat their bread with carefulness. Every comfort has its care, as every r…

Oh! consider opportunities will not last always, we have no [illegible] of them, much less command of them; and who knows whether we shall ever enjoy that which we now neglect? Especially, considering the Lord at the present, vouchsafes all helps to further and persuade us to th…

And in some it is the natural conscience accusing and challenging after sin is committed; now Christ came not to extirpate conscience, nor the power of feeling and discerning the obligation to wrath, that the conscience apprehends after sin is committed, nor the legal evil deser…