674 Chap. 24. An expofitionupon the BookofJ 0B Verf 14. in thenight, if not all thenight, What can be laid more for their watchfulneffeand affiduity in doing mifchiet)The Apoftie ( 5. i6.) exh. rtethSaints to redeeme the time becaufe thedayes are tvill; but we fee in the prefent example, alledged by Sob, that wicked men will redeeme the time, that they may. doe evill. We cannot poflibly redeeme the time, by recalling or bringing back the dine which is palt, but we may redeem the time by our more diligent airings in the time prefers; Now, who can aci more di- ligently in improving the time prefent,then they who are at work both day and night, which two diftindions of time include and carry all time, Let not the Godly be found Idling away the day, while the wicked are found labouring(at their work,fuch as it iF) in the very night, Againe, We may note. That the murtberer doth hid bloody bof ineffe not onlydiligently, ' but clofely He cloth it as a theife in the night.The murtherer,who is at all times feirce and cruel, will fornetimes be fubrle and cunning ; and this is the guileof other (inners coo, efpeciallyofthe Adulterer, whole ferret conveyances and clofe contrivances for theattaining ofhis filthy delightcs,are elegantly defcribed in the words which fol low.
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