[20] Deut. vi. 4.
[21] 1 Sam. xv. 22, where see the places in the margin.
[22] Hos. vi. 6, quoted by our Lord, St. Matth. ix. 13: xii. 7.
[23] Consider Ps. xxvi. 6: l. 13, 14: li. 16, 17: cxvi. 15: cxix. 108: cxli. 2, &c.
[24] St. Matth. xvi. 4: xii. 39. Compare St. Mark viii. 38.
[25] St. James iv. 4.
[26] St. Matth. xxiii. 33.
[27] Ezek. xvi. 47-52.
[28] Is. i. 4, 6, 15.
[29] St. John viii. 9. "I cannot but speak my mind," (says Josephus, after taking a survey of the extreme wickedness of his countrymen, in connexion with the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem,) "and it is this: I suppose that if the Romans had delayed to come against these sinners, either the earth would have swallowed them up; or the city would have been swept away by another Flood; or it would have been consumed, like a second Sodom, by fire from Heaven."