They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
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Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that tends to part them from, or to disquiet them in, their sins.