Chap.g.' An Expofttion upon the BookofJ O B. VerC 3 t. 369 eyes can eafily fee a linnet in mc, and difcover that I am polluted, though I am w afhed. This phrafeofplunging in a ditch, notes the greatest defile- ment, it imports a man all over defiled ; The Jews fay ofa man pbroyii hsbrca that bath loft his credit, and is exceedingly blettai(bed in his repu- ell, quafame tation, that he is c.iJ#ix the dirt, or thrown in the mire. nominifp: n¡tor Again, The word which we translate ditch, fometimes ftgni- told. áreirur.f fi.s corruption only (Pfal. 16. to.) Thou wilt notJufer thine holy ;-Inns One to fee corruption. And fecoudly, it nfiethapit digged and Corrupiio,iate_ .prepared, wherein dead and corrupting carafes are laid (rat. roue, Was igt_ 94. i 3.) Till thepit be diggedfôr-t e m eked, that is, till they be turforder ip. destroyed and put into the pit. reliirrt, guar Betides, We learn from antiquity, that they had fpecial pits alert f$aalida or gr avrs,for off,:nders, who were fl.tin by the late (as tome m,rt, mode merger in tetum (peak) or Cutoff by the hand of,,nyuallice ; who being enemies to puncdinir. humane. fociety'Wad.: they..Jived , were not admitted fo- vareo, t. a da ciery with the bodies of_hone(l men, when they dyed', Lirg. Lot. The Prophet IJaiab (Chap. 14. 18) 19, 20.) defcribing the ruine and ignominious down-fall of the. King of Babylon, faith, Theft all the Kings ofthe Nations, even all of them lye inglory, every one in his own heafe (that is, in their Fathers fepulchres) But this ar t cat# out of thygrave likean abominable brancb:and as the rai- ment of thole that are"lain, thruJ# thirowwith a fcvord, that goo down to theJ#ones ofthepit.Thou'halt n9t be joyn'dto them inburial. And henceto be cal%to a ditch notes any great humbling or affliEtion,reproach or contútnely. We may take it here in either fence, Thou wilt plunge me into filth and corruption, or Phew me to be filthy and corrupt, though I cleanfe my felt ; or, Thou wilt call me into the greatett afiCtions,notwithttanding all my purifications.I (hall givea note fitting this laft feule, at_ the dole ofthe whole verle. From the fir(#, here obferve, They who would make themfelves molt holy, appear moil ,unholy before God. Thoughts ofour own purity, render tes impure. Weare neverfo blackbeere God, as when we are wbiteJ# in our 'own eyes. We find the Pharifee (Lull; 18.) wafhing hind-elfin (now-ma- ter, and makinghis hands very clean, he tells us that he had fatt- ed and prayed, and given alms, and paid tithes (this is to wafh ourfelvesinTnow-water, and tomake our hands very clean) -but the Lord plunged this Pharifee in theditch, hecats him for a 13 b b wick-
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