And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Ver. 2. Why have ye done this?] Can you give any good reason? Nothing is more irrational than irreligion: and yet lust will so blear a man's eyes, as that he shall believe he hath reason to be mad, and that there is some sense in sinning. Never did any yet come to hell, but they had some pretence for coming thither. The flesh never wanteth excuses, even when she is most inexcusable and self-condemned.