37e) Chap. 9. An Expofition upon the Bookaf J O B. Verf. 3 a, wicked man. The poor. Publican plunged himfelf in the ditch and judged himfelf fit to be thrown into the mire ; but he roent home to bio houje jnjtified, rather then the other. The Lord tells his people (Jer. 2. 22.) Though thou wafh thee with nitre, and take thee much fopeyet thine iniquity it markedbefore me. The fpeech is of the fame importance in the letter with this ofJob ; yet there flpeercufare, the. holy Ghoft rather intends an hypocritical wathing by excu- sutpamabneg.x- frogor denying our Fins ; or (as fume glofs that text) by ¡hewing tojimulamenta images or imaginations, fancies or forgeries of holinefs. Ifthou pteratir ofien., fhalt.putzthy Elfin there dreffes ofho1inefs, as if thou wert wafh- tare. ed ynth nitre, and cleanfed with much fopre, yet thou canti not avoid mine eye, For thine iniquity it marked before me, I can fee thy tin thorow all the dawbings and paintings, thorow thy deckings and coverings put upon it. Now as God fees iniquity thorow all the masks and.coverings of hypocrites ; fo he can fee (pots thorow all the wafhings and cleantìngs of the (Holt fincere. And if we wafhour felves to jutlifie our felves, our very wathing is ourdetihng. Ged wi 11 not onlyfee,but marktheiriniquity,who think, they can pet all their iniquity out of his fight. Aral fuch fhall be made fo vile, that not only God, but their own clothes (hall ab- hor them, as fob exprefhes hicnfclfin the next words. (Mine own clothes will abhor me. We have the word at the eighth Chapter, verfe 54. Whofe .hope fh alt loath him , which we render, Whore hope fhall be cut off. Clothes may be taken either properly or figuratively. Taken pro- perly, the words may import, firfi, his degradation from all for- mer dignities. Ithall be deprived ofail honour and ettimation, and fo the clothes which/ wore in thedayes of my iirofperity,will fo much unbecome me, that they will abhor me. Or fè:condly, Taken properly , they are conceived to be a curcumlocutron of death. Thou wiltplunge me in thepit, that is, /AA die, andmine own clothes will abhor me. The dead are tiript ; garments doe not be- come a dead carcafe. M. Broughtons paraphrafe upon his own trantlation imitates this Mine own clothes(hall loath me ; name- ly, faithhe, When Igo naked to thegrave,as thoughmy cloàthes did loathme, Others underftand it figuratively, Mine own clothes fliall abhor me
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