* if ye will.
  Le 26:14-46  De 28:15-68 
 * be sure your sin.
   If the persons concerned prevaricated, and so imposed on men,
   or if they afterwards refused to fulfil their engagement, God
   would most certainly detect and expose their wickedness, and
   inflict condign punishment upon them.  Of all the ways, says
   Dr. South, to be taken for the prevention of that great plague
   of mankind, Sin, there is none so rational and efficacious as
   to confute and baffle those motives by which men are induced
   to embrace it; and among all such motives, the heart of man
   seems to be chiefly overpowered and prevailed upon by two,
   viz. secrecy in committing sin, and impunity with respect to
   its consequences.  Accordingly, Moses, in this chapter, having
   to deal with a company of men suspected of a base and
   fraudulent design, though couched under a very fair pretence,
   as most such designs are, endeavours to quash it in its very
   conception, by secretly applying himself to encounter those
   secret motives and arguments, which he knew were the most
   likely to encourage them in it.  And this he does very
   briefly, but effectually, by assuring them, that how covertly
   and artificially soever they might carry on their dark
   project, yet their sin would infallibly find them out. Though
   the subject and occasion of these words are indeed particular,
   yet the design of them is manifestly of an universal import,
   as reaching the case of all transgressors, in their first
   entrance on any sinful act or course.

  Ge 4:7  44:16  Ps 90:8  139:11  140:11  Pr 13:21  Isa 3:11 
  Isa 59:1,2,12  Ro 2:9  1Co 4:5