4. Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They have no wisdom, certainly, but even so common a thing as knowledge
might have restrained them. Can they not see that there is a God, that sin is
an evil thing, that persecution recoils upon a man’s own head? Are they such
utter fools as not to know that they are their own enemies, and are ruining
themselves? Who eat up my people as they eat bread. Do they not see that
such food will be hard to digest, and will bring on them a horrible vomit when
God deals with them in justice? Can they imagine that the Lord will allow them
to devour his people with impunity? They have not called upon God. They
carry on their cruel enterprises against the saints, and use every means but
that which is essential to success in every case, namely, the invocation of
God. In this respect persecutors are rather more consistent than Pharisees who
devoured widows’ houses and prayed too. The natural man loves not the
spiritual, is very jealous of it, and wants to destroy it, because it is
beloved of God; yet the natural man does not seek after the like favor from
God. The carnal mind envies those who obtain mercy, and yet it will not seek
mercy itself. It plays the dog in the manger. Sinners will out of a malicious
jealousy devour those who pray, but yet they will not pray themselves.
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