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Excerpt from Reliance on God, Our Hope of Victory: A Sermon Preached on the Day of Fasting and Prayer, September 26th, 1861 In this state of things, God sent Isaiah to Ahaz, King of Judah, to assure him that the confederacy should not succeed; and also to rebuke him for seek ing aid from Assyria, an insulting distrust of God. In connection with his message, the prophet thus pours out derision upon this confederacy: Associate your selves, 0 ye people and ye shall be broken In pieces and give ear, all ye of far countries, gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to naught; speak the word, and it shall not stand, for God is with us. Then, turning to his own people, he assured them that God had in structed him not to walk in the way of some of them, who would turn Judah from reliance on Him, persuad ing them to look to Assyria, and that God had inspired him to proclaim to them this: Say ye not, A Con federacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A Confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. That is, listen not to those who would persuade you to treason against God and the country, by trusting to a device similar to that of the ten tribes. To all them, to Whom traitors say, A Confederacy With Assyria, say ye not, A Confederacy; forbid it. Tell them not to fear the terrible front of the Confederacy made by the King of Israel, nor be afraid of this combined power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.