Chap. 7. +fin Expoftroaup,n the Book of J©B. VerÍ. I2. 629 blowdown thole [tomes raiCed by the blafi of flrong lulls and temptations,the foul will be ever like a fea tumbled®up and down or as the Apofile Jude fpeaks (aerie r 3 )! like a rágingwave ofthe fea, foaming out its own fhame. And this is further confiderable, that as the lea is mofi turbulent and tempefluous, moti bud and roaring about the bankes, where it is telirained ; Co man is moll boilierous:where he is kept in and flops ; if God do but Cet bounds to him by afflictions, he begins to rage at thole bounds: It is that which Job (In a degree) corn. planned of, he thought God would bind and bound him in by afHi- C} ion,and he began to be fomewhat unquiet in his (hackles. But when God lets bounds to wicked men by aftlidions, and hedges up their way with thornes, they are angry indeed,and their cor- ruptions break forth the more, by how much the firoager banks are make againft them. Thegreat bankan d bound, which God hath let up to keep the tufts ofmen from over flo wing all, his word anal will,his laws and ordinances,by which he fpeaks to men, as to the (ea, Hitherto (halt thou come but no further; againfi there banks the herrtsof men naturally rage mofi: How do their lulls roar and rife up aga?nli the holyand righteous will of God, there the foam of their corruptions is moil wrought andcart up. As Paul himlelfacknowledged of his natural condition Rom, 7. 3o Sin ( faith he) takeing occafron by the law, wrought in me, all man- ner of concupifcence, my lulls and corruptions were more mad, becaufe they were mo re refrained,) was like the lea which makes mofinoife ar, and moil áffaults the banks which flay it. So vert 13. Sin tbat it might appearfin, wrought death in me by that which is good ; there was a good, a holy and a righteous law let be- foreme, but the bafenefs of my heart was loch, that I was the worfe, for that, which taught me whatwas good,aud fhould have made me better. Further man is as afea in this, he ever carts up mire and dirt wh n he is moved, corruption moves, kvery furring stirs up the puddle of his heart. As he is a lea for largnefs, fo he is a very linke for filthinefs, Ifa. 57. 2o. The wickedare like the troubled lea, whofe waters calf Pip mire anddirt. Lally, Covetous opprefïours have a nearer relemblance to the lei in three things. They (as the fea) fuck in all the rivers and fireames of profit, which flow into them, from anypart of the world, and yet are not filled. x.111 2 Secotsc-
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