5oz Chap. zo. An Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verí. 13 This exprefíìora for the manner of it, fuits that which we reade (`?oh. 1. zo.) where 7ohn beingasked whether he was the Cliff, he confeffedand denied not,but conftfled Iam not the Chril: So 'cis here laid ofa wicked man, he fpares his fin and forfakes it not, but keeps it, to Phew the intentneff'e ofhis fpirit upon his finne, he will by nomeares let it goe. The words (till purfue the metaphor ofeating, for a glutte- nous perlon (as w asintimated before) eats for eating fake, or Pardus agit for pleafure, not for firength toglorifieGod, which fhould be cam peccatonon the end ofour eating. Now though this moral! glutton benot ((atimtranfmit- fparingat all in the eatingofhis meat, that is, in the commit- tens, aut deglu- g tiens elabit- ring ofhis fin, he eats, that is, fins heartily, yet he fpares his nene. Pined. meare while he is eating it, he will not eate it haftily, but with a kinde of deliberation : as fome cate their meare fo greedily that-theyfcarce tait what they eats, foothers care it fo !lowly, as if they thought they could never tart it enough, or have e- nough of it. 'Tis thus allo in finning. Some fin in a kinde of hurry or fuddain paflïon they fcarce know what they doe, while they are doing evil!, or they are to any tinfoil occafion what a carnal! heart is to any good occafionor to any occafion of doinggood, glad when they are rid of it ; But others fanne lingringly , and thinke they never flay long enough upon it ; They fin feelingly and defire ( as that Roman Tyrant defired men fhould die) tofeele themfelves fin. Such as there (I con., ceive, according toZophars fcope and minds) may be fayd to fpare their fin. They doe not fpare to commit it,but they com- mit it fparingly, as being loath it fhoulti fpend offtheir hands too fait. The Originall word here ufed, fignifiesto (pare, as we ought, out of pitie and compaflïon ; hénce not fparing andnot 7tü dimitte- pitying are put together, Ezek, 5.1 r. it lignifies allo to fpare re, relinguere what fhouldnot be (pared, to (pare not onely that which is in ïntaffum- Pro' our power, but which is our duty to deffroy. Some (pare be- sinus elf'. ing moved with a foolifh pity, and others with covetoufneffe. We may find a mixture ofboth in Sauls fparing the Amalekites. His Commiffion ran fiddly, thus (I Sam. 15.3,.)goeandfinite Ameleckand utterly deftray all that theyhave, fpare them n ;But verle 15. Saul being queffionedby Samuel, aníwers, the people ¡pared the belt ,o, f thefheep,&c. they would fpare=Amaleck, when God had laid, fpare them not. Saul pretends devotion, it rrefor facrifice
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