5 i4 Chap. 20. &4n Expo&ion upon the 93ook of j o B. Verf. r5,? which arifethhonely from worldly forrow and gripes ofcon- fcience, not from any change of the minde ; fo 7udas, having fwallowed downe thirty prices ofGiver ( the price of blond ). for betraying.Chrift, vomited them up by repentance fuch as it was, a repentance proceeding from worldly, not fromGodly. forrow (Math. 27.4 ) Then /silts ,when he taw that he was con- demned, repented hiwfelfe, andbrought the thirty. pekes offiver to the chiefe Triefie,andElders,andcafb'tbem downe and depar- ted, and went and hanged himfelte. TheApoftle (2 Cór. 7. faith that worldly forrow caufeth death. Sin caufeth eternal death,and this kinde..of forrow for fin caufeth temporali death; Tome pine . and languifh to death inworldly forrow,and others(like Yudas); by the violence of it thruft themfelves violently out of the world, and dye. Meere vexation enforceth fome wicked men to be honeft and to cart up what theyhave unjuftly gotten ;. 'I is not the tenderneffe of their confciences,but the ficknes and pain.of them, which puts them upon this. As forne men fay the reafon why they refute or abffaine. from eating fuch or teach. meate, is not becaufe they doenot love it, but becaufe it doth not love them -, it makes them tick if theyBate it ; fo the reafon why force vomit up the unrighteous mammonwhich. they have (wallowed, is not becaufe they doe not love it, but hecaufe it doth not love them, but hath made them ticke. The. Whale that íwalo.ved up onah, found him hard meate, his ftomacke could not digeft that morid,, he muff vomit him up for his owne cafe. Riches in thebellyofmany anoppreffour is like Yonah in the Whales belly, a trouble to his Ilonaacke, and he muff vomit them up againe, not out of love to righteoufnes, orhatred offin, not out ofpity to the oppreffed, or charity to the poor,but for his ownprefent eafe,& ; et, i't,t goe no further,., bow poore an cafe will that prove ? Such as this defcribed is all the vomiting here meant. And in this Zophar doth not fet forth the duty but the.punifhment ofa wickedman ; For though it be better to reftore any way, then to retdine that which is ill gotten, yet a man is not made better who reftoreth only thus. Andwe may fay offuch a repentance, it is to be repented of. Againe, As there is a vomitingofriches by repentance, fo fecondly, by expence, And this alfo is twofold. Firft By a willing expence; force men (wallow dòwne riches
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