...didst make man but little lower than the angels, and didst crown him with glory and honour. But. alas! how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! Man, created in honour, did not abide, but apostatized from thee his Maker, and incurred thine everlasting...

...look abroad where their beloved Church once flourished, alike fair and beauteous to the eye, and " how is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed!" Let them anticipate the coming of a few more years, and the same defective system may produce even...

...heads, saying, is this the city that men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth ? How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poureil out in the top of every street, the daughter of my people...

...name ;" but may also take up this bitter complaint and lamentation — " Ah, Scotland, Scotland ! ' How is the gold become dim, how is the most fine gold changed !' Ah ! where is the God of Elijah, and where is his glory ! Where is that Scottish zeal which once...

...exemplary, and the great part of the people were intelligent and were of good behavior. "But alas! 'How is the gold become dim! How is the most fine gold changed.' Of late years a great and rapid degeneracy has taken place, both in the doctrines and duties of religion....

...and pollution. Comparing the present with the original condition of man, we may well exclaim — •" How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed !" — Sam. iv. 1. Once man was near to God, now he is far off; once he enjoyed thelight of his countenance,...

...pure and holy, free from all disorder and distemper; but now, the very reverse! so that we may say, " How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed!" Lam. iv. 1. " The cro.wn is fallen from our head! woe unto us that we hare sinned!" chap. v. 16. QUEST....

...'the way of all the earth.' While viewing the different state of things, I exclaimed with sorrow, " How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed!" The godly man hath ceased, and the voice of devotion hath faltered on the lips of the convert. The...

...LORD. LAMENTATIONS, Iv. Zion's pitiful estate bewailed : she confesseth her sins, Edam threatened. 1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion,...

...great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary ! LAM. iv. 1. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed .' the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. LAM. ii. 1. How hath the...