Satan casteth a veil of carnal prejudices upon the heart, so as natural men cannot see the beauty and glory of the gospel. There are blind minds, dark hearts, corrupt principles, and carnal prejudices and fleshly conceits; so that they scorn the truth, rather than receive it in the love of it: 1 Cor. ii. 14, 'The natural man receiveth not the things of God.' Full vessels can receive no more water: you cannot pour in the gospel to such vessels as are full of sin, and flesh, and folly; they scorn it, and dash it over. There are sly pretences and crafty excuses; these are in the understanding and the spirit, and therefore, Heb. iv. 12, the word is said to 'divide between soul and spirit;' that is, between vile affections and crafty pretences.
Thomas Manton — A Practical Exposition upon the Fifty-Third Chapter of Isaiah, in The Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D., vol. 3 (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1870), on Isa. 53:11, p. 423
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