Here the subject changeth, and an awful but comes in. I would request the Reader to remark with me the progress of sin. First it begins in refusing to hearken to GOD. Malachi 2:2
Secondly, after refusing to hearken, the sinner learns to despise GOD'S judgments. This was a sad step in the first unhappy transgression. Genesis 3:4. Thirdly, after breaking GOD'S covenant, depend upon it, the transition from forgetting GOD to the disowning GOD is quickly made. And what is every man by nature, when left to himself, but like that sinner of old? Exodus 5:2.