...double-minded. Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee ? Wash you, make you clean : put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil....

...i. 22. How long wilt thou sleep, О sluggard ? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep t Pr. vi. 9. О out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them. And •rain thoughts lodge within thee t Jcr. iv. 14. About the time of forty years (said Paul) suffered...

...sin," (xiv. 23.) What is the meaning of faith, in this passage? V. ( To be continued.) VAIN THOUGHTS. O JERUSALEM, wash thine heart from wickedness that...How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? Jer. iv. 14. Vain thoughts — evil tempers — inattention ! We are guilty of vain thoughts, when,...

...fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. 6 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that...how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression...

...speak a man defiled, make him wicked, and turn him into hell at last. Observe also this scripture: "O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that...how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee 1" Jer. iv. 14. Wickedness and vain thoughts here are parallel expressions, which expound one another....

...and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. 2 Chron. xxx. 9. 3. Oh Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that...How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee ? Jer. iv. 14. 4. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him...

...keep all the rest clean. ' Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double-minded.'1 'O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that...mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge with thee.'! The concupiscence particularly here forbid, we see is an inordinate desire, or the least...

...the heart of a wicked man is said to be deceitful and desperately wicked : hence that exhortation, " O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved." 2. It disquiets it. It gives it many a deadly wound ; and though the spirit of a man will sustain other...

...shall be as a. whirlwind : his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us ! for we are spoiled. 14 $ ? 1 5 For a voice declareth '"from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim. 16 Make ye mention...

...our pride and obstinacy, our indifference and sloth, our vain excuses, our lingering love of sin. " O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that...How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?" Jeremiah iv. 14. O believer ! — if, indeed, thou deservest that title, after so long a departure...