Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Toot,, ofJ OB. Vert.2q.. 53t by reafonor argument. Caufe meto underhand, that is, doe not think to force my opinion, or to offer violence to my judge - ment, doe not think to club me down with great words and clamorous threats, but doe it by folid arguments, by evident dcmonflration pf reafon ; Doe it by favourie advices and counfel, not by bitter reproaches and invectives. Deal with my underflanding, not barely withmy affeóions,Caufe me to un- derfiaud. My errour J It lignifies local, corporal wanderings asid er- rours,and bod`rlerringor wandring;and fomt-imesit fignifies the wandrings of the'nind, judgement and affections, Prov. 5 19, 20. Solomon bids the husband, Itejoyce in the wife ofhit youth, let ber be as a loving Hind and pleafant Roe, let her breafis fatisfe thee atall times, and be thou ravilhedalwayes with her love. The Hebrew ( as our Tranflators put in the margin) is, erre thou al- ways in her love , that is,let all thy wandring, erring thoughts and affections be reduced and brought home to the wife, whom Godhath given thee ; the next words fcem to interpret fo, for why ( myfnnne ) wilt thou be ravifbedwith a fîrange woman, and imbrace thebofome ofaffranger ? That's dangerous erring in love : Therefore ( faith he ) let all thine errings and wandrings, all thy delights and ravithments be ( chail and conjugal ) towards the wifeof thyyeutb. Further, it fignifies erring or wandring out ofmeer ignorance. This word is often ufed inLeviticus for the fin ofignorance,Chap. 4. z. and Chap. 5. "r 8. and Chap. 22. 14. If a man bath finned through ignorance or committedan errour, then be (hall offer thefe facrifices andoblations. So Pfal. r9. 12. who can underftand bit errours ? That is, thofe finnes,"which hecommits out of ig- norance and inadvertency ? Hencehe concludes with this prayer, Cleanfe thoumefromfecretfaults.He doth not mean fau-lts,which he committed privately, a nd fo were fecrets to others, but faults which he had committed ignorantly, and fo were Secrets to himfell: That is, theywere finnesof ignorance. And I conceive he means,not only fuch fins, as he had committed ig- norantly, but then knew they were fins, but even Inch fins, as he wasignorant, whether ever he had committed them or no That is,he prayes for thepardonofall thofe fins,whichpoflible he,,, might have committcd,though tohim,as yetaltogether unknown and undifcoyered. Th
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