554 Chap. 24. .dn Expofition typon theBook of JOB. Verf. z ; living, and it (hall be hereafter the rule ofJudging,Now it is the rule by which we muff live to Chtie,and then it (hall be the rule by which Chrift will judge us. Thirdly, Where it is laid, They are ofthofe who rebelt againfi` the light ; Obferve. Wicked men cannot abide to befeene in what they doe, nor do they love to fee what they doe. They wouldneither fee their wicked pra&ices, nor be Peen in them.They are darkneffc,& they walk indarkneffe.As they walk in the darkneffeof fin, fo they wouldwalk in the darkneffeof fe- crecy, that others lhould not fee what evill they doe, and in the darkneffe of ignorance, that they might not fee that what they doe is evil. They are like thofe uncouth Creatures, Batts, and Oales, thatcome abroad onely in the night, knowing that if they doe but flirre out in the day, all the birds in the aire will gather about them, and hoote at them, becaufe of their ftrangeneffe and dtformity.And doubtlefle if wickedmen did but fee the mifhapenand ugly vifage of their own wayes in the light of the word, they would abhorre and run from themfelves as the moil abhorred mongers in the world,and fowould all men (who fee the uglineffeof fin in theglaffe of the word) abhorre them& poynt at them as mongers, did theybut fee them in their fiafull worker. A d hence the Apoftle (hinting the general difpofition of Goners) faith (1 Thef. 5. 7.) They that are drunken are drun- ken in the night. And againe ( OW: 5. 12. ) Fcr it is a !home even to ¡pzakof thole things which aredone of them in fecret, that is, when they arc out ofthe fight ofmen, and, pofTibiy, had it not been that theywere out offight, or in fecret, themfelves would not have done thofe things for (name; For though Tome wicked men, as they have cart offtheir honefty, fo their modefty roo, and aßß not onely wickedly,but impudently,thefhery oftheirface: reftifying againff them, they declaring theirfn as Sodom, yet as the moil of(inners prefume God doth not fee them when they doe evils, fo they are unwillingthat men (hould ; for though their Confcience puts no b:;rre to their finning openly, yet their credit doth. So that as every wicked man would be glad hedd not know that what he doth is evil, and doth what he canto hinder or extinguifh the light ofthat knowledge in him, fo moil wicked men.
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