What a very awful scripture is contained in these verses! Observe how the sinner is described: he turns away from GOD: he grows confident in sin: he bids defiance to danger: and is ripe for ruin. Observe the awfulness of the divine judgments upon him. As he turns from the LORD, and doth not like to retain GOD in his knowledge, GOD gives him up to a reprobate mind, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Romans 1:28. Reader! if the LORD gives up the sinner it is all over. "Let Ephraim alone, he is joined to his idols, " is one of the most awful sentences in scripture. If GOD ceases to correct, depend upon it judgment is at hand. Hosea 4:17; Ezekiel 16:42.

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