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1. However the Lord may for a time spare sinners, and they be ready to sleep because of this; yet at last when their cup is full, and they have proven themselves incorrigible, judgment will certainly come.

2. However a carnal church may be ready to swell with conceit of her own enjoyments and excellences, yet the Lord needs no more to make her miserable, but take away what He hath given her, and leave her as He found her. Sin will prove a wasting plague to souls.

(George Hutcheson.)

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KJV: And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they be the children of whoredoms.

WEB: Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;