...slide in due time ? " Deut. xxxii. 35. Is not your peril represented in those words of the psalmist, " Surely thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou...are they brought into desolation, as in a moment!" Psa. Ixxiii. 18, 19. It is a consideration which ought to affect the heart of every unconverted person,...

...in the world ; they increase in riches. — When I thought to know this it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood I their end." Yea, so natural and universal is the certain expectation of equitable rewards and punishments, if there...

...frequently said to be the end of the wicked, as in the Ixxiii. Ps. ; " then understood I theirend. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down into destruction." "Whose end is destruction." See Phil.iii. 19. 2. It is evident that some will finally ptrish, as it...

...was •wiling to study it more closely, and I found difficulties in it that I could not sur17 mount : Until I went into the sanctuary of God ; [then] understood I their end ; while consulting the scriptures, worshipping God, and seeking direction from Mm, he was pleased by...

...places, thou hast cast them down " into " thought I to know this, but it was too " painful for me ; until I went into the " sanctuary of God, then understood...utterly consumed with terrors; as a dream " when one awakest, so, O Lord, when " thou awakest, thou shalt -despise their " image." Such was the fate of...

...the wicked often have in this life, he says : " When I thought to know this, it matoo/iainful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God, th.e,n understood...Surely thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou didst ciist them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment ? They...

...increase in riches. Ver. 17. I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood their end. Ver. 18. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down into destruction. Ps. xxxvii. 1. Job xxi. 7. Jer. xii. 1. Hab. i. 4. Luke vi. 24. Woe unto you that are rich, for ye...

...foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me ; until I went into the sanctuary of God ; then understood...places ; thou castedst them down into destruction." If the present were our final state, it would be impossible for us to justify the ways of God to man....

...does fall, he falls at once without warning : Which is also expressed ia that Psalm Ixxiii. 18, 19. "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places ; thou...How are they brought into desolation as in a moment ? 3. Another thing implied is, that they are liable to fall of themselves, without being thrown down...

...of themselves, and of all spectators, they come tumbling down into a most horrible ruin. Ver. i 9. How are they brought into desolation as in a moment ' they are utterly consumed with terrors,] Oh what an astonishing change is this ! which is the most frightful, when on a sudden the divine vengeance...