...our Saviour, and for the peace and comfort of our souls, let us attend to it. Wisdom informs us, " There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. O how lofty are their eyes ! And their eyelids are lifted up."....Prov....

...though they noither repent, bow to the scepter of Jesus,, nor submit to the terms of the gospel. " There is a generation that are pure in their own, " eyes, and yet not washed from their iniquity. Ye will not " come unto me, says the blessed S&viour, that ye may have...

...in v&in. • '• 59 There is a generation that curse their father, and do not bless their mother. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes,...yet are not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eye-lids are lifted up, There is ,' generation,...

...altogether such an one as them" selves," and therefore, neither to be feared nor loved. They are clean in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness ; they imagine themselves " rich, and increased in " goods," and to stand in need of nothing, and "...

...and miferable, and poor, and blind, and " naked." Nor are thefe inftances umifual, or fuvgular ; " for there is a GENERATION that are pure in " their own eyes, and yet are not warned from their " filthinefs." There is then fuch a thing as fpiritual felf-flattery ; there is fuch...

...mayest be filthy still in the sight of God. There is such a generation, a multitude of them, that is pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness!. There are many moral evil persons that are most satisfied with their own estate, or such as have further...

...father, and doth not bless their mother ; avoid the company of disobedient, unduti12 ful children. [There is] a generation [that are] pure in their own eyes, and [yet] is not washed from their filthiness ; who are exact in external forms, but guilty of gross immoralities...

...£ Cor. v. 1 1 . II. We notice what are the springs of this desire. 1. We are liable to be mistaken. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from thiir filthiness. And thus the Laodiceans thought themselves to be quite different persons from what...

...FUthinctt. Ezra ix. 11. The land is unclean, with the filthiness of the people. Lam- i. 9. Prov. xxx. 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their own filthiness. Rev. xvii. 4. CVII. Directions. 2 Cor. vii.,,1. Let us cleanse...

...in it : it suffices for our present purpose to observe, that the numerous generation of those, " who are pure in their own " eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness," consists mainly of such persons, who after some superficial alarms of conscience, have sought, and...