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1817 Nov. 30

Not Paul

II. Doctrine

Ch. In Jesus

§.3. Practice

Irr

Prophets

2. Isaiah in the passage iii. 9.

3. Soon after Ch. iii. comes another passage in which in the character of a proverbial expression, Sodom is brought in: brought in but how? /in what character?/ not in the character of a place specially notorious /remarked/ for the prevalence of the particular propensity, but in that of a place, which for depravity in all shapes taken together was commonly regarded as having been subjected by supernatural means to the calamity of fire in the character of a punishment inflicted by a particular providence. Isaiah iii. 9. ‘The shew of their countenance (that of the people of Judah in general and Jerusalem in particular) doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom, ;they hide it [not]: wo unto their soul, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.’

In this picture effrontery seems to be the principal feature.