Chap. 20. e.1n Sxpofition upon the Book of J o s. Verf. 12. 497 ther larve then cate with them. (Prov.9.17.) Stolen waters are fweet,andbread eaten in fecret is pleafant:Stelne water and fare: bread arefinfull practices, whichare fo much the more fweer, by howmuch they are more fecret. This bread of fecrefies, is pleafant bread and fweete meates to a wanton fpirit : as the word ofGod and holy adings are pleafant bread to a gracious heart. `David fayth ofthe Commandements ofGod : Theyare fweéter to me then horsy. and the bony-combe ( Pfd. 119, 103.) What was thus fweete to him ? not the bare word of the com- mandement onely, but obedience to the commandement, or thefe commandements requiting his obedience : the word of the commandement is fweet to none but fuch as doe and obey it the word is gall andwormwood to a difobedient fpi- rit ; butto a David it is fweeter then the bony, yea[wetter, then thefweetef part of hony:iftherebe anypart of the bony that is more bony then other, thy commandements are that part, thereforehe ads,They are fweeter then the bony,or the bony combe. But what fweetnes is there in the hony-combe:? we are not to take the combe alone without the bony, but when he fayth, fweeter then the bonycombe, the meaning is, fweeter thenthe bony that cometh immediatelyout ofthe combe : That bony which drops from the combe without prefíing is counted pureft and fweetett. There is not only meat and drinke to believers in obedience, but bony and fweetneffe -: And fuch likewife for a while is wicked ,efTe -to the wicked. Thirdly, From the intendment or fcopeofthe fì.militude, which is to Phew what putteth tertian menupon the purfuite of .fin, what it is that provokes.them to it;no man as but he teeth fome reafon for it : abeats is provoked with fomewhat propor- tionable to a reafon,though he hath no reafon. Zaphar giveth us, thisfweetnefe,as a reafon why a wickedman purfuesand is fo greedy ofhis fin. Hence obferve.; It itfume expelledfweetnef% infin, which provokes to the dl- irgof it. WhenSatan tempts toPinne, heplays the Oratour, andpre tents fome confiderationofprofit, or pleaftre, or credit. In the Parableof the Sower it is [aid, theword of Godwas choc- S f f kedd,
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