._, 368 Chap. y.= An Expofition upon the Book of j OB. Verí.31. outward man in the fame Language, Cleanfeyour bands, ye 'inners, andpurifieyour hearts, ye double-minded, Chap. .. 8. Betides, It was ufual to wafh the hands as an emblem or token of innocency, and freedom from guilt. The law of Mfr ap- pointed, in cafe a man were flair, no man knowing how, that the Elders of the nearett City, fhould wafh their hands over the Heifer that was offered in Sacrifice, flying, Our hands have not find this blood, neither have our eyes feen it petit. 2 I. 6, q. So Pi- late, when he would make it vilible unto all the world (as he thought; that he was free from the blood of Chrift, called for a bafinof water to wafh his hands : all the w tter in the Ocean could not wafh Pilots confcience from the guilt of Chri1is blood, yet he called for a bafin of water, and wafhcd his hands, laying, Stia quod I amfree from the blood of this pelf pe f on, fee ye to it. So then, quantunvis the meaning of job is,Though I be clean within and clean wit hour, dtbgennpune though my heart be as clean, as waffling can make my hands, random though ( as the A ogle taught long after) I lif t up pure hands in inte- gtten Eomprayer, without wrath and d)ubting; yet pararefudeam . Innennon ideo Verle 31. Theirfhalt plunge me in the ditch, andmine own clotfet dolorusnQ'9' pc- _hall abhor me. paran expert Ph Pined. The word which we tranflateplung, fignifies a dipping or im- t?:u tnerfon, rather to dieor ¡lain, then to cleanle, Ezek, z . 15. Timer,intinx- There are two interpretations of thefe words, Thou jhalt plunge it eta laver ut the in the ditch. res non munde- They may be underftood either, firft thus, that, God would rug, fed tantun adjudge him lìnf tl, notwithtlanding all his purifyings : and fo it ettrngathuno anfwereth the expreflion of the latter claufe of the former verle; rem. Puturaapud As if lie had laid, Though Imake my feif as clean as clean can be, Hebr.cor file and thereupon judge my felfnever fo c.'ean, yet thou tnayeJt account debitum indi- me unclean; yea the more l labour to juitify rrty felf in my clean- c0nt nefs, the more unclean mayji thou judge me to be; Yet, Thou milt plunge me in the Ditch ; For we are to undeifland thewords,Thou wilt plungeme not as of that which the Lord would do,but as of that which the Lord might jufily do. As if he had laid, Thou mighteft havegreater caufè to plunge mein the ditch, when I am fo fine and clean in mine own eyes, then before. When I think I have wathed my felfas white as Snow, thou maye(t Ijok upon me, as drawn thorow a dirty channel, oras wallowed in the mire. After all my cleanfing and tinting , and purifying, thy pure eyes
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