Chap. 24. An Expoftion upon the Book, of JOB. Verf. 15 JOB, CHAP. 24. Ver. i 5, 16, r7. The eye alfo of ftheadulterer waitethfor the twi light, faying, no eye(hallfee me:andtif uijèth hisface. In the darkthey dig through hottes which they have markedfor themfelves in the day times they know not. the light. For the morning is to them even as theIli zcdow of death; ifone know them, they are in the terrors of thefhadow'of death. VITE have heard manywickedneffes defcribed in the fore mer part of this Chapter, and in the forging verte, The murtherer rifing with the light killeth thepore and needy,and in the night if as a Theife. lob proceeds to dilcover the pracctices oftwoother forts ofgroffe fittners,the Adulterer and the Thcif. Vert. 15. The eye ofthe adulterer waited° for the twilight. Before I come to open the particularterms of this claufe, or to raife any obfervations from it, I fhall give in fomewhat a- boutAdultery in general, which is the fpeciall fub;eft ofthe whole verte. Adultery is the breach of the 7thCommandement. And in chat Commandement a twofold Adultery is foi bidden, Firft, Mentall, or the adultery of the minder fecondly,Cor poral, or the adulte, yof the 'body . It was the former which Chrift in- tended, when hr c .r-r.ft. d the fife gloffe or expofition ofthe Pharifees about the 7th Commandement, (Nlatth. 5.27, 28. ) Ye bave heardthat it was ¡aidby them of old time, Thou fba!t not commit adultery ; bu: 1fayunto jen,wbofcever loo etbon a WC/ran to loft after her, ba.*= ceromittidadultery with her already in hie heart. By which it appeares, chat the Pharifees, who were the chief interpreters of the Law in thofe cimes,lirnited the commar.- dement againft Adultery to the outward aft but Chrift the Law- giver who !.eft knew the mind elche Law,enlarged it to the pro- hibitionof the internal aft, & told them that there is a heart a- dultery, an adultery in thoughr,occafios d by a vainor wanton- glanée 575
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