Chap.g. An Expofitivn upon the BookofJ O B. erf. 'Z, 7E me, that is, rirft, Thole that arc my. dearefá friends (billl abhor me, thou wilt make them flee fromme,who arc as near to me, as the clothes on nay back. Or fecondly,, In a figure, Mine :own clothes, 'that s naine own works (hall abb,'rme. Hypocrites are'faid to come in flyeep.r-clo.ath- ing (lllat.7.) that is , doing the works of thole who are lincere, appearing like them in praCftfe. And when we are warned to keepour garments (Rev. 16. 15.) the meaning is, that we mutt keep faith and a good confciencein every ad of our lives. Thirdly, It may have re(p,:d tolepers, whole clothes did abhor them, becaufe`they wore tome mark ofdifference upon their gar- ments, (hewing that they were to be Ihunncd, and their company avoided. But rather in general!, Mine own clothes_(hall abhor me, notes Tainfgsihdu, extream pollution. If I ju(tifìe my !elf before God I (hall be fo era ut ea pi unclean, that my clothes will be loth to touch me. We fay ofone bac nultu: ell that is very filthy, A man would not touch himwith a pair of tongs. qei alorom fon And it is ufual in Scripture (togive you that rule for the under- tirieeabeminari ffanding of this and other the like forms of fpeakipg) when lideaneur. a matter is fpoken of in a way of excels,that things infentiblc have fenle,yea rea(on and nuclei-handing afcribed to them : abhorring, Vbi atiqua. is an ad beyond fenle,it bath a mixture of reafon and unJeriteud- rum reeß dl. hag ; now to note his exceeding loethfomenels to God and man, cuntur a1igxan- who attempts to juftífie hitnfelt before God, the text faith, lb do inScripturie clothes (which haveneither life nor fenfe) (hall abhor him. when f;"'ireinfcn. the Pharifees, envying the acclamations which the multitude offbilia. Chrifts Dilciples gave him at his entrance into jerufolern, defired Set t. that he would rebuke and f lence them : Christ anlwered, I tell you, if tlx,fefbouldhold theirpease, theIfones would immediately cry out, importing how juft an occafion there was,why his naine and glory'fhould be lifted up; do ye thinkmuch that reafonablc men fpeák ? if there (hould hold their peace, theftones that have nei- ther life nor fenfe would fpeak. Thus ( Gen. 4. z O.) tonote the foulnels of Cain: fin, and his cruelty towards hisbrother, God faith, The earth bath opened her mouth to receive thybrothers blood from thy bard, as if the earth had been fentìbly afieCfed with the cruelty ofCain towardshis brother; thou wouldfi not let his blood (lay in his body,rhereforc the cal' h iii iridnefs'opened her mouth,and took in his blood from thy hand,and that cryes up un- to rnc. So here, I (hall be fo foul,that ifmyclothes had fenfe, life B b la and-
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