16. But unto the wicked God saith. To the
breakers of the second table he now addresses himself; he had previously spoken
to the neglecters of the first. What hast thou to do to declare my statutes?
You violate openly my moral law, and yet are great sticklers for my ceremonial
commands! Do you dare to teach my law to others, and profane it yourselves?
Even if you claim to be sons of Levi, what of that? Your wickedness
disqualifies you. It should silence you, and would if my people were as
spiritual as I would have them, for they would refuse to hear you, and to pay
you the portion of temporal things which is due to my true servants. Your
hypocrisy is manifest to all. Or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thymouth. You talk of being in covenant with me, and yet trample my holiness.
Your mouths are full of lying and slander, yet you mouth my words as if they
were fit morsels for such as you! How horrible an evil it is, that to this day
we see men explaining doctrines who despise precepts! We need the grace of the
doctrines as much as the doctrines of grace, and without it an apostle is but a
Judas.
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