32. For all this they sinned still.
Judgments moved them no more than mercies. They defiled the wrath of God.
Though death was in the cup of their iniquity, yet they would not put it away,
but continued to drink it as if it were a healthful potion. How truly might
these words be applied to ungodly people who have been often afflicted, laid
upon a sickbed, broken in spirit, and impoverished in estate, and yet have
persevered in their evil ways, unmoved by terrors, unswayed by threatenings. And believed not for his wondrous works. Their unbelief was chronic and
incurable. They might be made to wonder, but they could not be taught to
believe. Continuance in sin and in unbelief go together. Had they believed they
would not have sinned; had they not been blinded by sin they would have
believed. God’s ways with us in providence are in themselves both convincing
and converting, but unrenewed nature refuses to be either convinced or
converted by them.
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