11. And even those who abstained from these gross outward sins, were still inwardly corrupt and abominable. _The whole head was sick, and the whole heart was faint; yea, from the sole of the foot even unto the head there was no soundness, but wounds and bruises, and putrifying sores_, (Isaiah i. 5, 6.) _All these nations_ (saith God) _are uncircumcised; and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart_, (Jeremiah ix. 26.) _Their heart is divided_, (Hosea x. 2.) _They have set up their idols in their heart; they are all estranged from me thro’ their idols_, (Ezekiel xiv. 3, 4.) Their soul still _clave unto the dust_. They _laid up treasures upon earth. From the least of them_, saith _Jeremiah_, _even unto the greatest, every one is given to_ ♦covetousness, (chapter vi. 13.) _They panted after the dust of the earth_, (Amos ii. 7.) _They laded themselves with thick clay_, (Habakkuk iii. 6.) _They joined house to house_, and _laid field to field, until there was no place_, (Isaiah v. 8.) Yea, they _enlarged their desires as hell_: They were _as death and could not be satisfied_, (Habakkuk ii. 5.) ♦ “coveteousness” replaced with “covetousness” 12. And not only for their covetousness, but for their _pride_ of heart were they an abomination to the Lord. _The_ pride _of Israel_, saith _Hosea_, _doth testify to his face_, (chapter vii. 10.) _Hear ye, give ear_, saith _Jeremiah_, _be not proud――――Give glory to the Lord your God_, (chapter xiii. 15.) But they would not be reproved; they were still _wise in their own eyes_, and _prudent in their own sight_, (Isaiah v. 21.) and continually saying to their neighbour, _Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou_! (Isaiah lxv. 5.) They added _hypocrisy_ to their pride. _This people_, saith God himself, _draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their hearts far from me_, (Isaiah xxix. 13.) _They have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds_, (Hosea vii. 14.) _They return, but not to the Most High; they are like a deceitful bow_, (verse 16.) _They did but flatter him with their mouth, and dissemble with him in their tongue_, (Psalms lxxviii. 36.) So that herein they only _prophaned the holiness of the Lord. And this have ye done again_, saith _Malachi_, _covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more_, (chapter ii. 11, 13.)