i,8o Chap: 5. An Expofition upon the Book of J Q$, Verf. 2. ations to him, that it makes his Iife a continual death to him, and at Iafl fo wearieth himout, and wafts his fpirts, that he dyes for very griefe : and fo at once commits a three-fold murther', Firft he murders him intentionally, againll whom he is wroth : Second- ly, he/gaily , murders his own body ; and Thirdly, he, meritori- oufly, murders his foul for ever except the Lordbe more merciful, than he bath been wrathful, and the death of Chrill heal thole wounds, by, which he would have procured the death ofothers, and hath (as much as in him lies) procured his own. And envy flayeth the filly one.] Thefe two exprefíìons meet neer upon a fenfe. Envy is the trouble which .a man conceives in bimfelf, at the good which another receives. This difeafe gets in at the eyes and ears, or is oecafoned by feeing or hearingof our neighbours blcflings,In the z John 2,All the lujhs in the world are reduced to three heads, The lull of the eyes : the lull of thefiejh and their ide of life ; Envy is the chiefefl lull of the eyes, and it is properly called the luit of the eye : becaufe aman feldom en- vieth another, until he fees, Come good he hat above himfelt. This paffion is a murderer alto, it begins at the eye, but it rots down into thebones. Envyflayetb thefilly one.] There isnot much difference between thenature of thefe two, the foolish man, and the filly one : But the Original words by which theyare expreffed are very different. nre The rootLiignifaes to perfwade, to intice, or allure : And it is ta- Suafut perfua® ken fometime in a good fence (as inGen. g. 27.) where the Holy ¡us, decsptua, Ghoft fpeaks with admirable eligancy, God will perfwade theper- fedu£lur fuit, P hint video fua (wadable ; we translate it, Godwill perfzvàde Japhet. Japhet had deo,opud Grp_ his name from being perfwaded or perfwadable, God (hall intice sas, or perfwade yaphet : which was a ptophècieof the calling of rs,L7 ' p the Gentiles, who are defcendants from a het as the Jews are japhetblea- phetb= from Shem. So, that word is applyed to Gods drawing,or,allu- ring men by the Tweet promifes and winning inticements of the Gofpel.God doth (let it be taken in holy reverence) tole men on by promifes, and deceive them grallioufly into the Gofpel. (Rof.2. 14.)1 will allure her andbring her into the wildernefs. And becaufe by perfwafìons men are often deceived and feduced to evil,there- fore the word Lignifies alto to deceive and beguile, as well as to perfwade; and in the paflive to be beguiled and deceived , Hence, theword in the Text is derived,whichwe translateafmpleone,or a man that will eafily be perfwaded & led byanother,a fequatious or
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