...123 ,• ft • '•' *I \t . i/j./i ;• SERMON VIII. THE WICKED, THROUGH PRIDE, REFUSE TO SEEK GOD. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God.—Psalm x. 4 144 SERMON IX. RECOLLECTIONS OF GOD PAINFUL TO THE WICKED. I . II • •,• •...

...boasters, proud, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. (2 Tim. 3. 2—4.) The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,...not seek after God : God is not in all his thoughts. (Psa. 10. 4.) Who have said with our tongue, will we prevail ; our lips are our own : who is lord over...

...the minds of men, that God will never execute them. Thus David describes these poor deluded men : " The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,...not seek after God : God is not in all his thoughts : Thy ways are always grievous : thy judgments are far above, out of his sight : as for all his enemies,...

...humility, and thus becomes a most powerful agent in maintaining a supremacy of the flesh over the spirit. " The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,...not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." Pride leads us to form too flattering an estimation of our own powers: to presume that we can, by the...

...of an absorbing selfishness, which has consigned God and His claims to forgetfulness and contempt. "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God — God is not in all his thoughts."3 Oh wretched, frightful state of human debasement! ^ 1. Psahn xiv. 1. 2. Rom. viii. 7. 3....

...make light of God's wrath — [There are, alas ! too many who do this. " The wicked," as David says, " through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God : God is not in all his thoughts. His ways are always grievous : thy judgments are far above out of his sight : and as for all his enemies,...

...confidence in human reason, that reliance on arms of flesh, which indisposes man to seek after God. " The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God."* From the history of modern times, we have abundant evidence, that great improvements in arts and sciences...

...confidence in human reason, that reliance on arms of flesh, which indisposes man to seek after God. " The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God."* From the history of modern times, we have abundant evidence, that great improvements in arts and sciences...

...that in God alone man is to make his boast ; and that it is more blessed to give than to receive. "4. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,...not seek after GOD ; God is not in all his thoughts ; or, all his imaginations are, there is no God." The counsels of heaven are not known by the wicked,...

...if we pray unto him ! (d) Ps. xiv. 1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.— Ps. x. 4. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance....not seek after God ; God is not in all his thoughts. (e) Heo. xi. b. But witnout laitn u is unpossioie 10 pn-nsc him ; for he that ratneth to God must believe...