572 Chop. 24. ..gn Expfitirn kpn Ecciof 0 B. Val; r4; Rabbins, have a tradition upon that place ; that Latxtch havirg been a great hunter in his youngerdayes, being then grownold was led forth byhis youngman to take his pleafurc in hunting, and (hooting at Deere, and that while he was in this difport or txcicife in the field, Cain paired by,and the young man poynted him to Cain, Lamech ( being dim fighted ) (hot at Cain and killed him in dead ofa wild bead ; but bone after difcovering that he had killed rain, turned to the young man his guide in a pallionate anger and killed him alfo. This relation they give as the reafon why LamechLaid, Ibave 11.tine a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt : but I (hail not flay upon that tra- ditionof the Imes; and (ball only make fo much ufe of Lanuchs confeffion, as at lead to illuftrate, if not to prove, the poynt in hand, that he who flayeth a man doth it to his ownhurt and wounding,often to the wounding ofhis body,eflate,and honour, alwayes to the wounding ofhis own foul and confcience. Every fin in fome degree or other wounds the foul ; But the wounding ofothers to-death is the chieffin (ofall fins againfi the body and outward concernmentsofman)which woundeth a mans foul The murtherer at one blow ftrikes through the body ofhis neighbour and his own foule. Further, we might obferve from thofe words in the text,rifing with the light : That murderers, and indeed any fort ofwicked doe and laborious to doe the commands of their vile' are diligent But I noted this at the 5th verfe upon thofe words, Rifing be- timesfor aprey, I fhall not flayupon it here, I onely adde this ; Let usnot be floathfull in doing good,feeing the murtherer is fo diligent and early up for the doing ofmifchiefe. e/Ind in the night t's al a Theife. There words may be taken twowayes ; For F'irft, TheParticle, as, is by force conceivednot to be a note Fa"ichla q"fi of firnilitude,but to carry on a dire& predication Hii4 as a theif, non diett firnili- that is, He is a very theif. We find elfewhere in Scripture, that tudinem fed propriciatem, a particle of likenefs doth not only note the likenefs ofOne thing to another, but the famenelle ofone thingwith another. Taking it thus here5The meaning of the words is as ifleb had faid,Heri.
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