The Plague of the Heart (Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 45; I Kings 8:22-43) by Rev. Angus Stewart
I. The Meaning
II. The Lessons
Ralph Venning: "It is not any one faculty only that sin has defiled, but, like a strong poison, it soaks and eats through them all; so that whereas all was holy, and holiness to the Lord, it is now evil, and evil against the Lord" (The Sinfulness of Sin, p. 46).