...For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor ' (Gal. ii. 18). ' But unto the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to...instruction, and easiest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest...

...6. and unto the wicked saith God, Psal. 50. 16. What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or to take my Covenant in thy mouth, Seeing thou hatest instruction, and easiest my words behind thee ? By all which it doth evidently appear, that the second proposition doth also stand firm. A sixth...

...church by his outward appearance, and who perhaps im. poseth on himself; Thou wicked man; what hast thou to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take...covenant in thy mouth, seeing thou hatest instruction? ver. 16. He authorised! us to use the same language to some of you. Why this assiduity at church, why...

...in prayer, and not to love and practise the same, is the character of an empty formalist. " But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare...that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?" Psal. 1.16. " Excellent speech becometh not a fool. Forasmuch as this people draw nigh me with their...

...thyself? Uuto the wicked God saith, IVhat hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldcst take my covenant in thy mouth ; seeing thou hatest instruction, and easiest my words behind thee § -;" " Take teed, therefore, first to yourselves, and tJien to all the flock." The shepherd must...

...blood : he, that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol, Isa. Ixvi. 3. Unto the icicked, saith God, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth ? Psal. 1. 16. These passages, which might be easily multiplied, seem to determine the question that...

...and thou shall glorify me by thy 16 praises, and by a holy life. But unto the wicked, to hypocrites, God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldst t:ike my covenant in thy mouth ? why dott thou \7 talk of my statutes, and pretend respect...

...Wash you, make. you clean. See Ch. Ixvi. 3, 4. Jer. vii. 9, 10, 11,21, 22. — vi. 20. Ps. 1. 1 6. Unto the wicked God saith, what hast thou to do, to declare my statutes ' or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth ? Ver. 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castcth my words...

...great confirmation of what has been said under this head of covenanting, is that text, Psal. 1. 16. " But unto the wicked God saith, what hast thou to do,...that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth ?" This term, the wicked, in the more general use of it in scripture, is applied in that extent as...

...account of their conduct to his flock, he may justly address them, as God did the wicked of old, " What hast thou to " do, to declare my statutes ; or that thou shouldst " take my covenant in thy mouth ?"* And then shall the teachers, whose principle is " covetous"...