Note, 1. The punishment of scorners will be a means of good to others. When men are so hardened in wickedness that they will not themselves be wrought upon by the severe methods that are used to reclaim and reform them, yet such methods must be used for the sake of others, that they may hear and fear , Deut. 19:20. If the scorner will not be recovered from his sin, the disease being inveterate, ye...