Chap. i 3. AnExpofition anon-the Book ofJos. Verf. 26. 5 27 work, and therefore it is often exprei'r by breaking the heart; and afil .&tag the foal ; The repentance of the Jews is fo deferi bed,( Zac. 12. io.) ?they fhaillook,nponhim tivhor) they have pier- ced and they fballmourn fo, him as one that mourneth for h s onely fon, and(hallbernbitterncfr for him. In bitternefs and inrepen- rance at die fame time. So that kt the heft come of fin which can come, that we repent anse humbled for it, and repent favin )y, yet bitter forrows, bitter tears,, and bitter mourning; are the ;tîaes of it. I believe Peter did not finvery fweetly when he deniedhis mallet., but I am lure after he had done it, he inept bitterly, (Mat 26.75,) Bat if the iì.n be not repented of, then comes the bitternefs of puniflament. Potlibly a fin we repent of may receive bitter challenings : God may correct us medi- cinally,' for the fins over which we have mourned penitently a. but if the finbe not repented of, then he punilhethfor the fatis- faetion of his own righteous juflice, as well as for the correcti- on of our unrighteoufncfs, and that's a bitter thing indeed. Thus fin is a bitter thing as the effects of it arebitter :it is a bit- ter thing alfo as the root of it is bitter. So much that cautionof Mofes to Ifrae! imports ( Dent. 29. 18.) Left therefhould be a- mongyou a root that bearethgall and wormwood. In the foil of mans heart there is fuch a root. Our natures bear nothing but gall and worm-wood, finful actions fprout and (hoot forth from our finful corruptions. Yet this place of Mofes is tobe under- flood, not fo much of that general corruption which is in our hearts;for it fo,thenhe needed not to f there fhoteld beamong youa root which bearethgall and worm-W or everyman in the world, regenerate or unregenerate 'bath uch a rootin him : but he means it (as the text hath it) of fome aportatizîìigor back - fliding perfon that fhould follicite others to fin, laying, Come, let usgo andferve other gods; he meant it of thofe whole hearts were hardned and heightned in fin, whole original corruption yeas drawn out not only to do wickedly themfelves, but to pro- voke their brethren untowickednefs , thefe he callethempha- tically a root which bearethgall and worm-wood. For look what a mans own corruption or original fin is tohim, ..the fame is a- nother corrupt and finful perfon to him, namely, an enticer into fin. 'So the Author to the Hebrews expounds Mofes (Fhb. I2. -15. ) while he ufeth the fame phrafe, or rather borrows it of Mofes, left any róot of bitternefsfpringing up trouble you, and thereby il
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