Second advent library

LECTURE XVII.LEVITICUS xxvl. 23, 94.And if ye will not be refomiedbly me by these things, but wil.walk contrary unto me, then wil I also walk contrary unto you,and will punish you yet :even times for your sins.Wa are in the habit of reading the judgmenm andthreatenings in the word of God, as denunciauons againstsome other people but-ourselves. We are very fond otthrowing back upon the Jews what, upon the principleof equity and justice, would equally belongto us Gentiles.By this mode of reasoning, wicked, unbelievingidolaters, murderers, whoremongers, adulterers, and allliars, may and do resist the force of God's word, and flatterthemselves, in their lustiizl career, that the judgmentis past, and that they may go on in sin with impunity.But it is not only this abominable class of mankind whopervert the word of God to their own condemnation,ut many of those who profess to be ions, and eventeachers and expoundeis of the word, db take the sameunholy ground, to limit the Holy One in his justice andAnd bygicdgment.this means they not only wrest therxptures to their own condemnation, but others, whofollow their pemicious ways, are led into the same errors,and the way of truth is evil spoken oilThis manner of expounding Seri ture has been usedas the last resort against my appeagsto the heart andconsciences of sinners, to prepare to meet God inment. Let me use whatggldg-lpassage I please in the iptures,whether in the 0 rl or New Testament, these