Jeremiah 23:11

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

Ver. 11. For both prophet and priest are profane.] What wonder, therefore, that the people were so? I have read of a woman, who, living in professed doubt of the Godhead, after better illumination and repentance, did often protest that the vicious life of a great scholar in that town did conjure up those damnable doubts ia her soul. a And of another, that he desired a profane preacher to point him out a nearer way to heaven than that he had taught in his sermons, for he went not that way himself. Our Saviour foretelleth Mat 24:12 that "iniquity shall abound, love wax cold," &c.; and why? "Many false prophets shall arise."

Yea, in my house have I found their wickedness.] Sin is not a little aggravated as by the time, sc., If committed on the Lord's day; so by the place, sc., If done in God's house, and in his special presence. Unclean glances or worldly thoughts in hearing, &c., argue a profane heart. Like as it were a sign the orthodox party were but weak, if, while they were at sermons, Papists dared come in and put them out.

a Mrs Ward's Happiness of Paradise.