chapter ix

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11. And even those who abstained from these gross outward sins, were still inwardly corrupt and abominable. _The whole head was sick, and the whole heart was faint; yea, from the sole of the foot even unto the head there was no soundness, but wounds and bruises, and putrifying sores_, (Isaiah i. 5, 6.) _All these nations_ (saith God) _are uncircumcised; and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart_, (Jeremiah ix. 26.) _Their heart is divided_, (Hosea x. 2.) _They have set up their idols in their heart; they are all estranged from me thro’ their idols_, (Ezekiel xiv. 3, 4.)

Their soul still _clave unto the dust_. They _laid up treasures upon earth. From the least of them_, saith _Jeremiah_, _even unto the greatest, every one is given to_ ♦covetousness, (