Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back, by a perpetuall back-sliding] What is the reason then, that this people, contrary to mens usuall manner in such case, having gone out of the right way, and being in a wrong way, yet will go on still in it, and refuse to be reduced? Chap 5. 3. they hold fast deceit] They stick fast to their wicked courses. Psalms 36:3. Chap. 9. 6. Or, to those vain tales, that their false prophets deceive and delude them with. Chap. 5. 31. & 14. 14. and 23. 26. Isaiah 30:10. they refuse to return] Chap. 5. 6.