O you dry bones
I cannot conclude without addressing a few plain words to those of whom we have now been speaking. O you false prophets, O you dry bones, hear for once the word of the Lord (Ezekiel 37:4). How long will you lie in the name of God? Saying, God has spoken: and God has not spoken by you. How long will you pervert the right ways of the Lord, putting darkness for light and light for darkness (Isaiah 5:20)? How long will you teach the way of death and call it the way of life? How long will you deliver to Satan the souls whom you profess to bring to God?
1771 text
10. I cannot conclude, without addressing a few plain words, to those of whom we have now been speaking. O ye false prophets, O ye dry bones, hear ye for once the word of the Lord. How long will ye lie in the name of God? Saying God hath spoken: and God hath not spoken by you. How long will ye pervert the right ways of the Lord, putting darkness for light, and light for darkness? How long will ye teach the way of death, and call it the way of life? How long will ye deliver to Satan the souls, whom ye profess to bring unto God?
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Sermon 32 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:15-20.
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