Here is, 1. The description of wicked men. They do not only do God's
statutes, but they do not so much as seek them; they do not acquaint
themselves with them, nor so much as desire to know their duty, nor in
the least endeavour to do it. Those are wicked indeed who do not think
the law of God worth enquiring after, but are altogether regardless of
it, being resolved to live at large and to walk in the way of their
heart. 2. Their doom: Salvation is far from them. They cannot upon any
good grounds promise themselves temporal deliverance. Let not that man
think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. How can those expect
to seek God's favour with success, when they are in adversity, who
never sought his statutes when they were in prosperity? But eternal
salvation is certainly far from them. They flatter themselves with a
conceit that it is near, and that they are going to heaven; but they
are mistaken: it is far from them. They thrust it from them by
thrusting the Saviour from them; it is so far from them that they
cannot reach it, and the longer they persist in sin the further it is;
nay, while salvation is far from them, damnation is near; it slumbers
not. Behold, the Judge stands before the door.