Chap. 20. AnExpofttion upon tit'Bookie of J OB. Verf. I2: Prophet (Ez<k 24.6 ) compareth the people of the ?ewes, to a pot whofe /'cum is in it, we may fay foofall impenitent un- believers, their (earn boils in., fometimes the fcum appeares to them, and they may he thinking to take it off, but the fcum boils in againe, and there it remains for ever. This is the hell of hell, fin goeth down to the duff with finners.We may. fay (in al- lufion to that ofPeter,AC`ts 1.2th) that every wicked man fleeps in the grave, as he in theprifon, bound not only with two but with a thoufand chaînes. The fins ofbeleeve'rs goe to the grave before them. Sin dyeth while they live, and they have a life which (ball never die. The fins ofunbeleevers .goe to the grave with them ; while they live they are dead in fin, and by fin they fail into that death fromwhich there is no recovery unto life. Some fanners are long lived in the body, and they have a hope ofdyingxo finne, when they are ready todye innature ; as if they carried repentance in their fleeves, and could command it when they pleated : No manhath repentance in his power;. and the longer any man lives in fin, the more power fan gets to hinder repentance. And they feldome receive this power of re. pencance from God. who have long abufed his patience: thereforedye they thall in their linnes. When they ceafe to live here, fin fhall not, nor (hall they ever want a will to fume, when they are inthat-flue, wherein (properly)- they cannot finne. 493 J o B, Chap. 20.. Verf. r 2, r 3, 14, Though wickedneffe be fweet in his mouth,though he hider it under his tongue. Though hefpare ir, andforfake it not, but keepe it fill' ivz: hin.his mouth: TOhis meate in hisbowells is,turned, it.is-thegall ofAfpt. rutroducit im=. within him. plum tanquam. gulofum asgi veracem, TOT proceeds to defcribe the miferies ofa wicked- man; guae fKmma ae moft ofall ofan Hypocrite, by an elegant metaphor, or fi_ viditate vora- m.ilitude taken from meats, which are tweet in the tatfe but vtt, paut poil deadly in the.effeft:: andhowever, the pall,ages ofthis fimi- wine. Nineds. itüdC
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