17. seeing thou hatest instruction. Profane
adherents are often too wise to learn, too besotted with conceit to be taught
of God. And castest my words behind thee. Throwing them away as
worthless. There are pickers and choosers of God’s words who cannot endure the
practical part of Scripture; they are disgusted at duty, they abhor
responsibility, they disembowel texts of their plain meanings, they wrest the
Scriptures to their own destruction. It is an ill sign when a man dares not
look a Scripture in the face, and an evidence of brazen impudence when he tries
to make it mean something less condemnatory of his sins, and endeavors to prove
it to be less sweeping in its demands.
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