...Birds and Fowls, to reprehend Ifrael for neglecting the Time of their Vifitation. Jer. viii. 7. Tea the • Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed...Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their coming ; but my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. And fo our Saviour,...

...Prophet, for her obferving tne fit Time of coming and going from one Country to another, Jer. 8. 7. " Yea, the Stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed Times, and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow obferve the Time of their coming.'' It is a Bird with a very long Bill, Neck and Legs ; fometimes weighing...

...not ; neither do they underftand : They are like the Horfe and Mule, that have no Underftanding. — Jer. viii. 7. The Stork in the Heaven knoweth her...; and the Turtle, and the Crane, and the Swallow, obferve the Time of their Coming : But my People know not the Judgment of the Lord. Thefe Things are...

...the instructed man. " Yea," says the prophet, " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the crane and the swallow observe the time of...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." * Alas ! it is not alone to ancient Israel that the reproof belongs. The voice of nature, and the voice...

...aright; if man repents of his wickedness, saying, •what have I done ? Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, and the...but my people know not the judgment of the Lord." " When the judgments of the Lord are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world, we have been told,...

...hold fast deceit, they refuse to return;" they are even more stupid than the brute creation " For ihe stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and...the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgments of the Lord," nor regard the merciful visitations of my power! Why, then, should they say...

...compass, nor reason, they are guided by that powerful instinct impressed by the Creator, whereby " the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times,...and the swallow observe the time of their coming*." AB the migration of birds constitutes a very curious article of natural history, our readers probably...

...although it has attracted the notice of men from the earliest times. The prophet Jeremiah observed that ' the stork in the heaven ' knoweth her appointed times...turtle and the crane ' and the swallow observe the timo of their coaling.' Every spring the London ornithologist looks out for the coming of the migrants,...

...excellent lefson to the rational. In the sacred history we are told, that the Slork in the heavens knmceth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their comings and we are reminded that the leafing of the fig-tree usually determines the approach of summer....

...(ht/Oreator and the littleness of man. Yea, the stork iu the Heavens knoweih her appointed times>; and (he turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the...coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord. Tell me, ye sages,, who pretend to penetrate mto the secrets of nature, how the bee can traverse the...