Chap. za. An Exposition sepan the Books of j O B. Verf. a 5: 5 t r as it was borne) But thy oppreflòrs shallbe tent packing ; they who heretofore fwallowed thee, ¡hall not flay within light of thee. Thy fvallowersare fwallowed up, The metaphor is .ta- ken from wild beafts which greedily devoure their prey; He bath firallowed downe riches. Hence observe; Riches are a fweet morfl to a worldly minded man. And he is usually molt pleafed with thofe riches which he gets by unrighteoufneffe. What he teares from thebackes,-and pulls out of the bellyes of others, delight his backe and belly mofl, Some care not fo much for the riches they ger, as for the finfúll wayes by which they get them , It contents them more ro over -reach another, then to enrich themfelves, Aesguftine confefí'eth of himfelfe, that in his youth he would fteale fruit, not becaufe he cared for the fruit, but becaufe hedelighted to (leale; fo we may fay of thefe, it is the wrong, not the gaine whichpleafeth them : Stolen waters arefweet, and this makes them fweeteft to fome, that they are ftolen. 'Tis rare, ifhe that fwalloweth downe riches, be not a fwallower ofthe poore, if his particular rifing and filling, benot the falling and emptying ofmany. Againe, When a man fwallows and devoures greedily, he Appofete fgni- cloth not well difcerne what he eats, he takes little notice whe. carer per verb: ther his meate be wh.olefome and fit for nourithment or no, he devraere, quod eJl fine deeífu eats without due refpeft either of quantity or quality. This quicquidobjrci- lets forth the temper of worldly men, and gives us a fecond rur,frvefalubre obfervation. f s five nocivuna: Car greedy covetouspersons care not what it is they have, fo they may have it. A jute manconfidersevery penny he gets, and askes his own heart, howhe came by it ; A righteous man is as carefull what money he puts in his purse, as a temperate man is what meare heputs into his ftomack ; He examines his title and enquires whetherit be his right or no. He would not enjoy any thing without the good will of God, or with the wrong of his bro- ther. The way in which hegaines is more considerable to him, then the gaine, and whence he hath ir, then what he bath, But alb EJ metapfiora duifa ab imma- nibus beftijf, qua aliar feras uno riilu degiu- rient,
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