...required to enter into with religious sincerity. In the 50th Psalm, it is written, Unto the wickcd, God saith, What hast thou to do, to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth? In other words, " Thou hast no right, no permission from me, to take my covenant into...

...vindication of the practice : let us hear that solemn address of the Almighty, in the 50th Psalm: " 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...

...insensible and impenitent, the very oblations they offered, served but to aggravate their guilt. To the •wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth *? In the same spirit the prophet Isaiah assures the people,...

...Lord. He cannot unite himself in spirit with angels, and arch-angels, and all the company of heaven. " Unto the wicked, God saith, what hast thou to do,...that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth ? Now, consider this, all ye that forget God; lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver."...

...were however required to enter into with religious sincerity. In the fiftieth Psalm, it is written, ' Unto the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to do,...statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth?' In other words, "Thou hast no right, no permission from me, to take my covenant into...

...thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself." And what saith God to such vain thinkers? "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 casteth my words behind...

...fiftieth Psalm: you will see your doom, ver. 16-22. " Unto the wicked, God saith, what hast thou to do, that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth; seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee? These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest I was...

...understand judgment. — Job xxxii. 9. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. — Ps. xiv. 1. But unto the wicked, God saith, What, hast thou to do to declare my statutes ? &c. seeing thou hatest in* struct ion, and cnstest my words behind thee? &c. Thou thoughtest that...

...understand judgment. — Job xxxii. 9. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. — Ps. sir. 1. But unto the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes ? &c. seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words be1hindthee? &c. Thou thoughtest that I...

...last yielded, and as he opened the book, he happened to cast his eye upon that place of the psalmist, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shotildest take my covenant in thy mouth, seeing thou hatest instruction, and easiest my words behind...