Psalms 53

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Psalms 53:1

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

There is none so foolish, as an obdured sinner; and that fool

Psalms 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? &c.

See Psalm xiv. 4, and so for the whole Psalm.

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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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