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I. A DIVINE COMPLAINT AGAINST SINNERS. Three charges. Apostasy. Dishonesty. Insensibility.

II. A DIVINE INVITATION TO SINNERS. An invitation to return —

1. To Divine friendship.

2. To honest service.Bring all the tithes into the storehouse. If they accede, God promises —

(1)  To give them good in abundance.

(2)  To give them good in connection with the produce of the earth.

(3)  To give them good in the affections of men.Learn —

1. A man is a bad man who withholds from God His due.

2. A bad man becomes good by surrendering his all to God.

3. The more good a man has in himself, the more good he has from the universe.

(Homilist.).

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KJV: Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

WEB: From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Armies. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'