135 Chap. 3'4. AI Expefition upon the B00%, of Jas. VerL8. It hbell to come hardly offin finning,and when it goeth hard- ly downe ; Many fin as eafily as they eat or drink. They eat up my polkas bread, ( faith God, Pfal: 14.4. ) that is ( aswe fay ) they make no bones of it ; there's nothing flickes in their throats,., rlarr troubles their confcience. Where finlives altogether unmor ti: ed in anyman(it doth fo in every meere naturals or unregene- rate man) 'tis no more to him ro fin,then it is either to live, or to Bate and drink for the maintainingof life. But they (hall feele foreg paines for finning, who have finned with greáteft eafe;they (hall drinke datnmage by fcorning like Gall and Wormewood, . who have drunke fcorning like water.. Elihu having thus taxed_ yob with fcorning at good men, proceeds to tax him- with over-. much freedome and familiarity with evillarten.. Vert. S. Which goeth in companywith the7uorl¿ers of iniquity, andwallkethwith wicked men. Nofitur ex Asif hehad fayd, youmay know what he is, by the company -iomite. &c.. he keepes. liegoeth.in companywit the 'workers ofiniquity , or he afro= ciates and puts himfelfe into the fociety of the workers ofiniquity. Elihis clothnot fay, he dwelleth` among the workers of iniquity ; The beft man in the world maydwell among bad men;Lit dwelt in Sademe; We muff goe out of the world , if we will not be a- mong the wicked;the world is every where full of theworkers of iniquity.But (faith he) hegoeth in company with them.Which inti mares the a&tvenes ofhis fpirir with them; yea the ele&ion of his fpirit,or-that he chofe their company.Though agood man may be intle company ofthe wicked,- yet heBoth not choofe their com- pany ; He is not of theirbody of their focicty or gang. A wicked man doth not content hitnfelfe to be. among the ordinary fort of ` finners, he is for, and belt likes the wo°ft of (inners, workers of iniquity. All are fingers naturally, but Tome are finners artificial= ly ; they fludy fn, they contrive andplot mifchiefe ; They devife iniquity upon theirbedi, faith one Scripture ; 7hey weave thefpi- tx6eyes ,ÿ dens webb, faith another. Here's'artificial) finning. The Greekes risneces xsc- call fuch, fn-workers, and crafts-men inevil). I have had occafion ie, to fpeake of thefe fromother afrages of this Booke. Here Elihu tohighten the charge againft 4, faith, .Hegeeth in carupany -with ( fucb..
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