Proverbs 15:10 - Homilies By E. Johnson

The principle of judgment

I. IT IS NEVER CAUSELESS .

II. THE CONNECTION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT IS OFTEN MYSTERIOUS . Hence we should be slow to trace the judgment of God upon sinners.

III. SOME SINS THAT FORETELL JUDGMENT .

1 . Desertion of duty; forsaking of God's ways; travelling in paths we know to be crooked or unclean.

2 . Indifference to rebuke. For even in error, if we will heed the timely warning and correct the discovered fault, judgment may be averted. If not, there is no way of avoiding the law of doom. The soul that sinneth shall and "must die."—J.