...commanding such persons to lie, to utter hypocrisy, and to insult the Holy Majesty of Heaven ? ' To the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to do, to declare my statutes; or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth?' " (4.) Have you a right to say thus positively, ' inndels...

...thee out of the hand of Saul, 2 Sam. xii. а — 7. But unto the wicked, God saith, What hast thon to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth í Seeing thou hatest instruction and easiest my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then...

...&c.) was impressed on my mind, I was all joy and transport ; but if such a passage as Psa. 50: 16, (« What hast thou to do, to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth ?') was suggested, I was all dejection, and, perhaps, durst not go upon my knees to...

...after they have known it, to turn from, the holy commandment delivered unto them," (2 Pet. ii. 21). For thouhatest instruction, and easiest my words behind thee," (Psal. 1. 16, 17). But the actual fact of...

...continuer a mareher d« notre c&te devant eux avec une simplicity et une petitesse d'enfant. FENELON. What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? — Psalm 1. 16. THERE is nothing more painful to a Christian's ear, than to hear the manner in which...

...continuer a marcher de notre cote devant eux avec une simplicite et une petitesse d'enfant. FENELON. What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?— Psalm 1.16. THERE is nothing more painful to a Christian's ear, than to hear the manner in which some...

...portion : but to the uucoveuanted soul, or hypocritical pretender to a covenant engagement, God will say, "What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?" Psal. 1. 16. What ground hast thou to own me ; or to claim any thing from me for this world or another?...

...Jerome's epistle to Fabiola. It will be more useful for us to consider those severe words of David ; " But unto the wicked God saith, what hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth : seeing thou hatest instruction and easiest my words behind...

...read that awful text, Psal. 1. 16, your consciences should fly in your faces, as it did in Origen's, "But unto the wicked God saith, what hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth?" O tremble at such a sharp rebuke! (4.) You tempt your children...

...high : 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble : I will deliver thee. and thou shalt glorify me. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or tluit thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 1 7 k Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest...