A Chap. 24. An Expofition upen the BookEf JOB. Verf 14. $53 that's his proper line, and he never moves our of it wholy ; He may have (through the power ofcorruption and tempcacion)his wandrings and goings aftray,but then he bath his repentings acd returnings into the way againe; he cantof abide long, much leffe alwayes in the pathes of darkn: ffe,He comes co him fell with the prod:gall, and then he comes to his father, he bethinks him(elfe Where he is, and comes back into the path where he ought to be; if at any time he walke in the council ofthe ungodly ( the gradation is made inthe firfl Pfalme) which thing he ought not to doe, yet Purely he will not (as it followes) fiand in the way of finnc-s, or ifhe flànd a while in that way, yet,he will nor fit down in the feat of thefcornefull ;he will not reft nor flay there Now as it is an argument &amark of Godlineffe, when a man finds,that th ough he bathmany faylings and wandrings, yet he abideth not in the paths of darkneffe, fo it is anargument of the naughtineffe ofa mars heart and flare, when though he now and then hits upon the doingof a good thing,yet he abides not in the paths of light.Vaine thoughts (as theProphet Reproves the ?ewes) lodge in the wicked fo long, that the Lord complaines, How long (hall vairre thoughts lodge in you.?But as good thoughts feldome come to anungodly, man, fo thy lodge not at all with him ; they are great flrangers to him, andhe ufeth them as the word of!Iran- gets, yea as enemies, he quickly turns them off; yea he rhrults them away from him, he abideth not in the paths of light. 706 having thus fec forth' the Spirit ofa wicked man,byt his re- bellion agiinft the light, by his unaffeeledneffe with and unflay- edneffe in the waves and paths ofit; proceeds to give us a further account ofhis wicked ccurfes andworks of darkneffe. Verf. 14. The murtherer rifing with the light killeth th"e pore and needy, and in the night le as aTbeife. The murtherer is he that killeth a man without warrant and authority ; every slaying of a man is not marcher, but to flay a man, or to take away the life of a man without warrant, that's murther : And that's the g.offe fin forbidden in the fist Corn. mandement, Thom(halt not kill, or thou .lhalt doe no notertber. And this is duallycommitted either in malice to the perfon or inCo- yetoufneffeafter the fpoyle. Some take away the life of a man in C C C C Z malice
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