What those words mean I know not, and hardly dare to think: but as
long as those words stand in the Bible, we will have hope. For God
the Father, who willeth that none should perish, and Jesus the only-
begotten Son, who sighed over the poor man's infirmity in Judea, are
the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.
SERMON XXVI. THE WOMAN OF SAMARIA
(Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, 1856.)
2 Kings xviii. 9-12. And it came to pass in the fourth year of King
Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of
Israel, that Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria,
and besieged it. And at the end of three years they took it: even
in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king
of Israel, Samaria was taken. And the king of Assyria did carry
away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the
river of Gozon, and in the cities of the Medes: because they obeyed
not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant,
and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not
hear them, nor do them.
These are very simple words: but they are awful words enough.
Awful enough to the poor creatures of whom they speak. You here,
most of you, can hardly guess all that these words mean.
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