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for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD Sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Understand, therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiff-necked people. Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD. Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you.

32: 28. For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

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EZRA 9: 6. O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests been delivered into the hand of the kings of the land, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. 10. And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, which thou hast commanded by thy servants prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast pun

ished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this: should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

NEH. 1: 6. Both I and my father's house have sinned. We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

JOHN 8: 43. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God, heareth God's words; ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

2 PETER 2: 10. Presumptuous are they, self-willed: they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities 13. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin. An heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray.

1 JOHN 1: 8. If we say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. - 10. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

ECCL. 7: 20. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not. There is no

2 CHRON. 7: 36. man that sinneth not. JAMES 4: 17. He that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin.

JOB 9: 20. If I say I am perfect; it shall also prove me perverse.

GEN. 6: 5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. - 11. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

Ps. 14: 2. The LORD looked from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek after God. They are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good: no, not one. ROM. 1:26. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections. 28. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not conconvenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful; proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. Who knowing the judgments of God, that they who commit such things are worthy of death; not only do the same, but have pleasure in those that do them. 3: 9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; as it is written, "There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God, they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable: there is none that doeth good, no, not one." (Ps. 14: 1-3.) Their throat is an open sepulchre;" (5: 9.) "With their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: " (140: 3.) "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." (10: 7.) "Their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery are in their ways and the way of peace have they not known." (Isa. 59: 7.)

"There is no fear of God before

their eyes." (Ps. 36: 1.) Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may become guilty before God. — 23. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

T2 TIM. 3: 13. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

JER. 32: 30. For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger, with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.

ISA. 59: 3. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth; they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, they hatch cockatrice's eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper, their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall 'like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon-day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our

iniquities, we know them; in transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. JER. 18: 22. And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness. This is thy lot, the portion of thy measure from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

EZEK. 2: 3. Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. For they are impudent children and stiff-hearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, Son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. But thou, Son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house.

¶ 16: 44. Behold every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. Thou art thy mother's daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite,

and your father an Amorite. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. As I live, saith the LORD God, Sodom, thy sister, hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast judged thy sisters.

JER. 14: 20. We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee. Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgraec the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

15: 1. Then said the LORD untc me, Though Moses and Samuel stoo before me, yet my mind could not b toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

3: 10. For every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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§ 2. THIS DISOBEDIENCE THE FRUIT vyings, murders, drunkenness, rev

OF AN UNHOLY HEART.

MAT. 12: 33. Either make the tree good and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. O generation of vipers! how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man, out of the good treasure of the heart, bringeth forth good things: and an evil man, out of the evil treasure, bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

15: 18. But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man. (M. 7: 21.)

JOHN 3: 3. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh.

ROM. 8: 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God.

LUKE 6: 44. Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramblebush gather they grapes.

JER. 17: 9. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?

EZEK. 18: 31. Make you a new heart, and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Ps. 51: 10. Create in me a clean heart, O LORD; and renew a right pirit within me.

EZEK. 11: 19. I will give them me heart, and will put a new spirit | within them: and I will take away the stony heart, out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes.

GAL. 5: 19. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,

ellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

ECCL. 8: 11. The heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

2 COR. 5: 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away: behold, all things are become new.

GEN. 8: 21. The imagination of man's heart is evil, from his youth. JER. 7: 24. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward. Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

16: 12. Behold, ye walk, every one after the imagination of his evil heart.

1 COR. 2: 14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them; because they are spiritually discerned.

PROV. 6: 14. Frowardness is in | his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

Ps. 5: 9: There is no faithfulness in. their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

JER. 4: 22. For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

§ 3. DISPOSITION TOWARDS GOD. I. Love wanting.

Ps. 77: 3. I remembered God and was troubled.

ROM. 1 25. They worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.

1 JOHN 2: 15. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

ROM. 8: 8. They that are in the flesh cannot please God.

JOHN 12: 46. I am come a light into the world.

3: 19. Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

1: 5. The light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not.-10. He was in the world and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own and his own received him not.

PHIL. 2: 21. All seek their own, not the things that are Jesus Christ's. JOB 21: 14. They say unto God, depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what profit shall we have if we pray unto him?

Ps. 10: 4. God is not in all his thoughts.

Ho. 8: 14. Israel hath forgotten his Maker.

DEUT. 32: 18. Of the rock that begat thee, thou art unmindful; and hast forgotten God that formed thee. JER. 2: 32. My people have forgotten me days without number.

3:21. They have perverted their way, they have forgotten the LORD their God.

1 JOHN 5: S. This is the love of God, that we keep his command

ments.

PROV.1:30. They would none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof. ISA. 5: 24. Because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

2 CHRON. 36: 14. Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-places: but they mocked the messengers of God, and

despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

ROM. 1:28. As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind.

ISA. 30: 8. Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever: that this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

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T DEUT. 32: 15. But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

2 KINGS 17: 9. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchman to the fenced city. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: for they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. Notwithstand

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