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never get the food their souls require as born of God,
and thus pine in starvation and misery, abstaining in
measure from the world’s enjoyments and destitute of
their proper Christian comfort, putting off avowedly till
they reach heaven that communion of saints and wor­
ship of their God and Father which ought to charac­
terize them on the earth.
“ Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I
am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the
souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your
arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that
ye hunt to make them fly. Your kerchiefs also will I
tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they
shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye
shall know that I am Jehovah.” (Yer. 20, 21.) It is
in vain to oppose God: strange that men or women
should hope for success in such warfare! The truth is
that will blinds by the enemy’s wiles, and they realize
not that it is with God they are contending till the
struggle ends in their own everlasting confusion, and in
the exposure of their devices before such as they hoped
to make their victims. “ Because ye sadden with false­
hood the heart of the righteous whom I have not
saddened, and strengthen the hands of the wicked that
he should not return from his wicked way that I should
save his life.” (Ver. 22.) God declares that the end of
this their destruction fully is come, and withal deliver­
ance to His people whom they had expected to delude.
“ Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine
divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand:
and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.” (Ver. 23.)
Such is the constant knell of judgment on the enemies