And now, my brethren, having introduced that fearful expression from my text, to hate God, allow me to call your attention in the last place to the true import of this phrase, and of the corresponding one, to love him! In the language of the second commandment, taken in the connexion, in which it stands, all idolaters are said to hate God, to hate him. Is it not a tremendous word? To hate God! What! Is it possible for a creature not only to disobey, but even to hate his maker, to requite his love
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