Je 44, 4

Ps 96, 10

11.-HATRED OF SIN.

Do not commit this abom-cleaving to that which is inable thing which I hate. good.

You that love the Lord, The deeds of the Nicolaites hate evil the Lord pre- I hate.

Ap 2,6

serveth the souls of His Let none of you imagine Za 8, 1
Saints: He will deliver them evil in your hearts against

out of the hand of the his friend: and love not a
false oath: for all these are

sinner.
Ps118, 53, A fainting hath taken the things that I hate, saith
128, 163 hold of me, because of the the Lord.

Ps 138, 21

wicked that forsake Thy Thou hast hated iniquity: Ps 44, 8
Law.-I have hated all therefore God, thy God,
wicked ways.—I have hated hath anointed thee with the
and abhorred iniquity; but oil of gladness above thy
I have loved Thy Law. fellows. (See p. 245.)

Have I not hated them, O

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Six things there are which Pv6, 16Lord, that hated Thee: and the Lord hateth, and the pined away because of Thy seventh His soul detesteth : 1. Haughty eyes, 2. A lying tongue,

enemies?

Eci 25, 3-4 Three sorts my soul hateth, and I am greatly! grieved at their life:-A poor man that is proud: a¦ rich man that is a liar: an old man that is a fool, and doting.

Pr8, 7, 13 My mouth shall meditate! truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.-The fear of the Lord hateth evil.

Ro 12,9

Jb 9, 24

Hating that which is evil,

3. Hands that shed in-
nocent blood,

4. A heart that deviseth
wicked plots,

5. Feet that are swift to
run into mischief,
6. A deceitful witness
that uttereth lies,
7. And him that sow-
eth discord among
brethren.

12. PROSPERITY OF THE WICKED.

The earth is given into the brel and the harp, and rehand of the wicked. joice at the sound of the J621, 7-15 Why then do the wicked organ.-They spend their live, are they advanced and days in wealth, and in a strengthened with riches?-moment they go down to Their seed continueth before hell.-Who have said to them, a multitude of kins- God: Depart from us: we men, and of children's chil- desire not the knowledge of dren in their sight. Their Thy ways.-Who is the Alhouses are secure and peace- mighty that we should serve able, and the rod of God is Him? and what doth it pronot upon them.-Their little fit us if we pray to Him? ones go out like a flock, and Whilst the wicked man Ps9, 2-3, their children dance and is proud, the poor is set play. They take the tim-lon fire.-For the sinner is

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praised in the desires of his iniquity.-As the dream of soul and the unjust man is them that awake, O Lord; blessed. Thy judgments are so in Thy City Thou shalt removed from his sight: he bring their image to nothing. shall rule over all his ene- Deliver me, and rescue me Ps 143,11mies. For he hath said in out of the hand of strange his heart I shall not be children: whose mouth hath moved from generation to spoken vanity and their generation, and shall be right hand is the right hand without evil. of iniquity. Whose sons Be not thou afraid when a are as new plants in their 18, 20-21 man shall be made rich, and youth: their daughters when the glory of his house decked out, adorned round shall be increased. For about after the similitude of when he shall die he shall a temple :-Their storehouses take nothing away: nor full, flowing out of this into shall his glory descend with that. Their sheep fruitful him. He shall go into the in young, abounding in their generations of his fathers: goings forth.-Their oxen and he shall never see Light. fat. There is no breach of -Man when he was in wall, nor passage, nor crying honour did not understand out in their streets.-They he hath been compared to have called the people happy, senseless beasts, and made that hath these things: but like to them. happy is that people whose Ps 72, 2-6, But my feet were almost God is the Lord.

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11-12, 19- moved; my steps had well- Moab hath been fruitful Js 48, 11
nigh slipt.-Because I had from his youth, and hath
a zeal on occasion of the rested upon his lees: and
wicked, seeing the prosperity hath not been poured out
of sinners.-For there is no from vessel to vessel, nor
regard to their death, nor hath gone into captivity:
is there strength in their therefore his taste hath
stripes. They are not in the remained in him, and his
labour of men: neither shall scent is not changed.

they be scourged like other There is success in evil Eci 20,9
men.-Therefore pride hath things to a man without
held them fast: they are discipline, and there is a
covered with their iniquity finding that turneth to loss.
and their wickedness.-And Thou indeed, O Lord, art Je 12, 1-3
they said: How doth God just, if I plead with Thee,
know? and is there know- but yet I will speak what is
ledge in the Most High? just to Thee: Why doth the
Behold these are sinners; and way of the wicked prosper;
yet abounding in the world why is it well with all them
they have obtained riches.-that transgress, and do
How are they brought to wickedly? Thou hast
desolation? they have sud-planted them, and they have
denly ceased to be: they have taken root: they prosper
perished by reason of their and bring forth fruit.--