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<p>This may be taken as showing us, 1. The marks of a wicked man. He that has a <i>high look and a proud heart</i>, that carries himself insolently and scornfully towards both God and man, and that is always ploughing and plotting, designing and devising some mischief or other, is indeed a wicked man. <i>The light of the wicked is sin</i>. Sin is <i>the pride, the ambition, the glory and joy</i>, and <i>the business of wicked men</i>. 2. The miseries of wicked man. His raised expectations, his high designs, and most elaborate contrivances and projects, are sin to him; he contracts guilt in them and so prepares trouble for himself. The very business of all wicked men, as well as their pleasure, is nothing but sin; so Bishop Patrick. They do all to serve their lusts, and have no regard to the glory of God in it, and therefore <i>their ploughing is sin</i>, and no marvel when their sacrificing is so, <a class="bibleref" title="Prov.15.8" href="/passage/?search=Prov.15.8">Prov. 15:8</a>.</p>
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