Chap.z5. An E:tpo f tí:on upon the Book of JOB. Verf35. 205 Hence Obferve. "¡wicked manis confiant in conceiving amkcontrivingwicked., tefs. He-doth itnot by Harts and fits, his belly is ever prepa- ring ; when one deceit is wrought off, he goes to work upon a fecond, and thenhe projects for a third. Some fpeak ofa per petard motion, we finde it here ; what a man doth naturally, he doth conftantly. Though there be much art in preparing deceit, yet it is the work of finful nature ; the frame, the en- gine ofa wicked mans heart moves perpetually. He prepareth deceit, he is alwaysat it. AS David proftffeth (P/alm.45. r.) My heart'is inditing agood matter , 1 wit! ¡peak of the things which 1 have made touching theKing. David had Come holy work ready made, but he had more amaking, he faith not, I have endited, but my heart is enditiltg.,, I amupon it,'ít is my continual study. So alfo the wicked mans heart is al ways pre- paring and devifing unholywork, or that which is evil. Again, Their belly ; that is, their minde prepareth. Hence Note: The minde ofman is the Shop wherein deceit isframed Yeas the minde is not only the Shop,but the Artificer; and it is not onely the Shop and the Artificer , but the very Tool that frames it : The underftanding and wit ofa wicked man,ham mer out and Ihape all his deceitful wares. Thehand andTongue begin where the minde"ends : The tongue pubh{ht:th; and the hand executes what the mind pre- pares and the heart fuggefis. That which one of the old Po, ets Paid of the Belly, under the notion of Appetite and Hun ger, the fame we may fay of the belly , in the notionof this preparing ; This belly is the Mafter ofallfinful Arts, and that which gives out and furrìitheth man with all the cunning de- ceits .of wickednefs. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, Artio tnagOeP murders, adulteries, fornications, theft, falfe wanefs, blafpbe= rngeniìáuolar mies r Matt!). 15 'ï 9.) thefe are the wares which are not onely i;ertvenrer. laid up in the heart, as in a Store- houfe, but made in the heart as in a Work;houfe , and fromrthence t hey proceed readymade: The bellyprepareth deceit. Laity, Mark howEliphazdefcribes the wicked man in his a Lions, He conceivesbmifehief, and brings forthvanity And yet again, he ispreparing deceit. Note.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=