56. Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God. Change of condition had not altered their manners. They left their
nomadic habits, but not their tendencies to wander from their God. Though every
divine promise had been fulfilled to the letter, and the land flowing with milk
and honey was actually their own, yet they tried the Lord again with unbelief,
and provoked him with other sins. He is not only high and glorious, but Most
High, the only being who deserves to be so highly had in honor; yet, instead of
honoring him, Israel grieved him with rebellion. And kept not his testimonies. They were true to nothing but hereditary treachery. They knew
his truth and forgot it, his will and disobeyed it, his grace and perverted it
to an occasion for greater transgression. Do you need a looking glass? Here is
one which suits the present expositor well; does it not also reflect your
image?
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