506 Chap. 20. An Expofitionupon the Booke of J O B. Vert. 14i leave off the exercife, yet not withdraw his love. Many conic- derations may breake off his uctionr, butnothing breakes offhis affeäions, A wicked man faith tohis finne, as God to yofhua I will not leave thee norforfa%e thee. Nulfi roanife- The laid claufe of this verfe, is but the affirmative of this ne ffabit, (r Prof' :hive. ter hoc ,114, eipeccattit: or. But keepe it (lilt withinhis mouth. Never confefling it. cutturn diJrrw- eteb;t, nee ati- Sclomen puts thofe two together, He that ccnfefeth andfor- quid qu:ú Ym adhtbebStb:t q faketh his finfhall have mercy.. He that bath no mind to furfake adhibeiir per his finne, haarno defire to confeffe it. He that would keeps it cats fun roof- in his hands, would altokeepe it within his mouth. But what tenribur. gets he by this concealement Let the next verfe enforme us., A ouin. whi; h container the Application of the whole fimilitude. Verf. 14. Yet bù meate in his bewells is turned. Though wickednojl e befweet, though be hide it under his 'ongue, though he sfiare it, &c. Suppofe all this, that a wicked man bath been very tender of his finne, and nonrated it long, what's the benefit ? where's the fruit ? Yet his meate in his bowells is tur- ned ; That is, the mani dillies and ceurfes that he bath had in this banquet offin, all this meate in his bowells is turned ; how turned ? every thing that is eaten, if there be a digeflion made of it, ifthe flomack can due its worke, is turned. Naturalifls call it Agïrnilation, when the meare eaten is changed or turned into the fubliance of the body. ,But here the meaning is, It is turned into another thing then what it was when it was in his mouth ; that is, hefinds the efferi ofit in his ftomack to be filch as if the meare were not that which hehad eaten, it doth mot turn tonourifhment,but to poyfon,as the next claufe expreffeth; His meate in his bowell, is turned. Je is the gall ofA.r s within him. So Mr Broughton reads it, His meate in his bowels turneth into the gal of A(fus within him. We fry His meate in his bowells is turned, it is thegall of Af» within him; The fence is the fame ; For this turningof his meate in his bowels (asour tranflation ex- preffeth it) is not the turning of it. into nourifhment, but into poyfonh.e
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