555 Chap. 6. An Expofition upon the Rood, ofJ O B. Verf: 2y onetime or other, you may cover and hide a lic, you may keep i t clofeand tit upon it,as Rachel upon her fathers Images,but at la ft it will be evident, a lye will out. We fay, Truth it the daughter of time, and fo is a lye too a little time will bring that work of darknefs tolight. Take the word in the other fence, for failing, and it yields us this inftruEtion. That Pie who bath uprightnefr of heaat, rfleadfafl for ever. Truth is, uniform : Which way fóever the wind and the world turn, his pofture is the Came-,Chritt will not fail him; therefore he cannot. Such a man is as Mount Zion, that (hall never be removed where the heart is found, the afions are steady ; and he that moves upon a right principle, moves regularly; and in all changes of events,changes not his way : try him,and try him again,2t will be evident unto you, he will not lye, Grace is ever the fame,and senders them who have it, like him ( in their degree) fromwhom they have it, without variablenefsorlhadow ofturning. He that is not (for the fiibftance)what he was, was never what heought to be, fincere.He that is upon atoodground,and knows his ground, will hand to it; e rut} him (asa creature may be trufted) and he will not fail. Verf. 29. Return Iprayyou,let it not be iniquity, yea return:agaiìt; my righteoufnefr is- in it. He goes on tobefpeak his friends to hear him better. Return.] The word fignifies. Firft, A Local return, or returning from a place. Secondly, It is ufed Metaphorically, to return from anger, or to turn anger away ; Ifa 5. 25. His auger it not turnedaway, the i :edrre ; fignif- Lord didnot turn )from h is fierce wrath. Some underhand it fo . ivonrfear here, Return Ipri4ya e, that is, I befeech you be not to angry, be ,nimuar,ejlq,,i not fo batty an d fo cholericly witch me, iropofìto ab fr_ Thirdly, To turn or return, noes defifting from our pur ofé; Pre. in/litu or the change ofour refolutions.' And thus it is the fame with re- 1n"1 virt m,; peutancr, The Scripture abounds withthe word in this fence, Z" ten:tam gere. in"aIl not need to quote texts,: Thus molt underhand it here, Re- turn, that is, repent ofyourformer barddealing with me, peffl nor obi rcdieritis,ó in it, perfevere not in your uncharitablenefs. 0!,rurfum re. Or laftly, Return, that is, weigh the matter better, Return, dieritit, id ell' look' it over again, let it have yoUt, fecund more fettled thoughts,
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