...Theyk" (saith he) " 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 should we have, if we pray unto him." But whatsoever their knowledge is, it is, sure, an accursed knowledge, which refuseth to know God,...

...the duty. If God does not answer us, naturally we cast off the duty, and say with those in Job, What is the Almighty, that we should serve him ? and what profit should ire have, if we pray to him, Job 21. 1.5. They pray not out of conscience of the command, but merely...

...me. 40 And ye will not come TO me, that ye might have life. 41 I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. I have yet a much greater. Teftimony in my behalf than the Teftimony of John. The Miracles that I do...

...hand of a Mediator. to me, that ye might have life. 41. Í 'receive not m honour from men. 42. But I know you, that ye have not the love of God. in you. 43. I am come " in my Fathers name, and ye receive me not : if ° another fliall come in his own name,...

...effect, whofe deplorable condition our Lord reprefents, and tells them the caufe of it in thefe words : ' I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. How can ye believe, who receive honour one of another, and feek not the honour that cometh from God...

...fcriptures, for in them .ye think ye have eternal life : and they are they which teftify of me. — But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you — How can ye believe, -who receive honour one of another, and feek not the honour that cometh from...

...for if we do not obey his laws, we equally rejeft him. "41. I receive not honour from men. " 42. But I know you, that ye have not "' the love of God in you. " 43. I am come in my Father's name, " and ye receive me not : if another fhall " come in his own name,...

...can judge the state of your heart, whether you are not now among the unhappy class to whom he says, " I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you," John v. 42. It must, therefore, be a situation of no common peril to fall under his displeasure, and...

...from us ;" 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 should we have if we pray unto him?" Job xxi. 15. All natural men are, like the prodigal, men of the world, and want their portion in this...

...their confufionin the great dav, as he did many of his » Jewifh hearers during his abode below, " I know, you, that ye have not the love of God in you," John v. .42. Afoul altogether deftitute of the love of God, could not be acceptable to lljrn in any...