49° Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Bookof J pB. Verf. 14. fuits this fence of the word exaffly, and the effe&of that abho- minable idolatry;for the Mat bath diffolved and meltedaway truth andpitty out ofthe Popifh 7erretories. 13r 7o him that is afflieledpittyfhouldbe(hewed. That word pitty, Pierar,bonitar, in the Hebrew, fignifiesa facred fweet affe&ionof mercy, benig- benignirar,& nity, goodnefs and piety : And by Contraries (in which fenfe ncteraph Mud. words are often ufed in that language) it notes, Firft, reproach; tisane% catch_ Prov. 14. 34. Sin is (Chefed) a reproach toany people ; Se- ic. lir+quo LJa, condly, impiety andcruelty, harthnefs and feverity ; Thirdly, It lignifies any abominable wickednefs, ( Levit. 20. 17.) where Alofe: (peakingofinceft , inceft between brotherand lifter, calls that abhomination by this word (Chefed)a wicked thing.Tbat may have a.good name, the nature whereof ás fo ill, that it is not to be named. Further,The word as we tranflate,importsmore than a bare as ofpitty or commiferation; as fuppofe a man fee his brother in mi- fery, compaflionates him, but releiveshim not, this is not pitty. Such the Apolile James deferibes in his firft Chapter, verf. 15.If a brother or a fjterbe naked, and def}itute ofdailyfood, and youfay unto them befilled, bewarmed, be cloatbed ; poor creatures, ye are hungry, ye are naked, I pitty you, I am lorry to fee you thus ; be filled, be cloath ed ; I with it were of herwife with you ; and yet in the mean time he gives them nothing wherewith either to sleuth or feed them;is this fulfilling the law of love? is this chari- ty? nothing lefs.. The pitty here fpoken of, is not a verbal pitty ; our Paying to a brother in trouble,be comforted,or I would courfe were taken for you; I with you well with all my heart, and fowe beflow a mouthful ofgood words, but not fo much as a morfel of bread, or a cup ofcold water. Good words alone are cheap charity to mans expence, and_they are fo cheap in Gods efteem, that they will not be foundofany value at all in thedayofrecko- ning : good words not realized, if they be found any where will be foimd in the trefures ofwrath.This is not the pittywhich (Job teaches us) fhould be fhewed to him that is afiîted: The Apoftles queftion (hakes fuc.h out ofall claim to this grace, r Job.;. 17. Wbofoever (faith he) bath this worldsgoads, . and feeth his bro- ther inneed, andfhutteth up his bowels of compafon from him, how doth the love ofGoddwell inhim.? Though a mans mouth be open with good words,yet if he thut his bowels from good deeds, there isno love toGod or man hous'd in that mans heart:. It if no
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