S 386 Chap. x 3. ÁiExpofitioN upon theBook ofJoe. Verff .9 . other tide. Jordan, that if they shouldpreve falfe to their own propofals, their fin would furely find them out. Bat doth fin make fearch for-the finner?or will fin difcover and betray it felt"? When he faith their fin would find them out, his meaning is, the revenginghand of.God for finwould find them out: When we feel theeffats and receive the rewards of fin, our fin finds us. Many lofe both the fight and memory ofthe fins they have com- mitted,,buttheir fins keep the.fight of them, or will Follow them (as thehoundBoth the fleeing game)upon the fcent,tili they have found them-out. Secondly, It isgood for man to fearchhimfelf , before the Lord fearches him, or,becasafe the Lord willfierely fearch him. It will be our wifdom to bring ourown works to the touchftone, for God will ; to travel into our own hearts, and over ourown lives, for God will. Let not any regionof thy fell- be ( terra incognita) an unknown land to thy felt; for God walks through thee every day. Gad threatned to fearch fertefalemwith candles, becaufe theyhad not fearched themfelves by the clear fun Thine of his word.; A- fin of ignorance committed is lefs then a fin againfi` knowledge,but tohide a fin wehave committed,orto be wilfully, ignorant of it, encreafes it. Lattly,it isdelifor sas by hunsbleconfeffion to mak,eoar fins known to God, Peeing God dothfearch out ourfins andwill know them,whe- tiller we will or no, Concealment doth not hide theeye of G.od from fin, but the mercy and pardoning graceof God from the (inner. Thedifguifes which we pat upon -the evils whichwehave. done,cannot make them lefs viiible to,but more ugly in-the fight, of God. To affure that, is jobs Rope-in the next'claufe of this verle. Or as one moeketh another, deyefomoockhim f Proprie The word fignifies to illude, to ly, to deceive, : to ly that.we eft ivadere, maydeceive, or to deceivebylying. One man, or (as theprò-. znentiri, 611c,_ -prietyof the Original founds) on weak, lorry, forrowful pore menti poor, > eari > Lzlludendo, vet man may.thus mock ánd.deceive:another ; but can weak, lorry, ludere mend_ fillymanputcheatsand deceits upon the ftrong,thewife;the only ende. wife God ? But may we conceive that 7,6s friends had any ,fuch defign in hand, or that theywere contrivinga plot against God? Pis equally as vain and sinful toftrive with God byour wit; as
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