...leaders of them who are the chief actors of all this cruelty ! for well was it spoken by the prophet, "The leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led by them are destroyed for lack of true knowledge." Well, you shall proceed a little further, to fill...

...Rufh, can fcarce fupport themfelves,* but ftoop under the Burden of Age. Ver. 15, \6. The ancient and honourable, he is the head: . • and the prophet...lies, he is the tail. For the leaders of this people caufe them to err : and they that are led of them are deftroyed.~\ He afligns a Reafon of their Deftru£ion...

...the LORD will cut off from Ifrael head and tail, branch and rufh. iri one day. i5 The ancient and. honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he /'/ the tail. In thefe verfes the total overthrow of the kingdom of Ifrael is foretold, as the punifhment...

...rich and /loor, the noble and the base . The ancient and honourable, the ¡wince and the magistrate ; he [is] the head ; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he [is] the tail, the most contem/itibie 16 of all the /leofile. For the leaders of this people, their governor» and...

...The ancient and honourable, he is the head ; and tlw prophet that teachcth lies, he is the tail. 16 e the people ; 15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the prie 17 Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless...

...Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day. The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth...people cause them to err; and they that are led of them arc destroyed," Isaiah ix. 14—16. John, in his Revelation, honours one of Satan's prelates with the...

...sinners in rebellion against the Gospel : yea, he is the very tail of the devil; as it is written, " And the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail....err, and they that are led of them are destroyed," Isa. ix. 15, 16*. The gown and cassock are vain. garbs of priestly sanctity to deceive the blind and...

...to Christ in the heart. The devil drew these from their standing by his own tail : " The ancient and honourable he is the head, and the prophet that teacheth lies he is the tail." And now the whole world wondered after the beast. The whole Roman empire became now, in the general,...

...and lying words, are the ruin and destruction of souls. " The leaders of this people," says God, " cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed." Such are led to make lies their refuge, to take shelter under a misrepresented God ; who, as they say,...

...to a considerable number of Jew« and a very crowded auditory at Sion Chapel, from Isa. ix. 16. «' For the leaders of this people "cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed." After an introduction, calculated to engage their serious and candid attention, he shewed, that in...