Psalms 12

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Psalms 12:8

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

It must needs be, that wicked men should abound every where, and bear them proudly in their lewd courses, when the worst and most godless men are exalted and preferred to places of honour and command, and magnified in their sins.

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A Plain and Familiar Explication of the Hard Texts of Scripture

Joseph Hall (1574-1656) was Bishop of Exeter and then of Norwich, and one of the most widely read devotional writers of the English church - Thomas Fuller called him 'our English Seneca'. This work takes the passages of Scripture that ordinary readers find hardest and renders each as a plain …

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