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Ye persuade yourselves that “the evil day” foretold by the prophets is “far off,” though they declare it near (Eze 12:22, Eze 12:27). Ye in your imagination put it far off, and therefore bring near violent oppression, suffering it to sit enthroned, as it were, among you (Psa 94:20). The notion of judgment being far off has always been an incentive to the sinner’s recklessness of living (Ecc 8:12, Ecc 8:13; Mat 24:48). Yet that very recklessness brings near the evil day which he puts far off. “Ye bring on fever by your intemperance, and yet would put it far off” [Calvin].