An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

And do not they heap the wrath of the true God, who serve him no better than false gods are served, by their Idolatrous Devo•ionists!

Secondly, There must needs be a continual heaping up of wrath by Hypocrites; for, if not to set the heart right provokes God to wrath, (Psal. 78.8.) The Lord was exceedingly displeased ⟨p. 264⟩with the Israelites, because they set not their heart aright. Now if the Lord be so angry when the heart is not set aright) much more must it provoke the Lord, when then do purposely set their hearts wrong, when they do evil knowingly, advisedly, when, as it were, they study to do evil. To do good only in show, doth more displease the Lord, than the doing of that which in show is evil, or which is evil above-board, known to be so by all beholders. As Hypocrites often deceive men, so they attempt to deceive God himself. This cannot but heap up wrath, being it self so great a heap of sin. They who think God will be pleased with outward Services alone, or have no care to give him inward, are alike displeasing to him. Therefore, among all sorts of sinners, the Lord declares his wrath, and thunders woe upon woe, in the Gospel, against Hypocrites: They have heaped up wrath, and it shall be heaped upon them, They shall have their Portion in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone. That's the first thing, what they do, They heap up wrath. When the hand of God is upon them, they are so far from coming forth humbly and penitentially to turn away his wrath, or to seek his face, that they provoke him more and more, and dreadfully inflame the reckoning against themselves; They heap up wrath.

Secondly, There must needs be a continual heaping up of wrath by Hypocrites; for, if not to set the heart right provokes God to wrath, (Psal. 78.8.) The Lord was exceedingly displeased ⟨p. 264⟩