57$ p, 24. An Expo/lam upon tbeBook of JOB. Verf, r5. cy, while you commit thisgolly, then you can avovd beingburnt when you carrÿ fire in your bofome,or tread upon burning coals. FOn thly, the finfullneffe of this fin appeares, lay the comparifon which the Scripture makes between it and theft, ,(Pro. 6.30,3 t. ) Ferenda erf t Zt n dot not defpife a tkeif if he !teal tofattfte hie foule when be magicOmni ne s c e hun it is a fin toDale, g though it be to fatisfiehunger qam g r + perperranda a- no necefliity can excufe inigruity ; and we fhould rather chufe to á3q ea iniat íi x flarve then flea!,if at left that may be called fealing,which is done meetly to avoyd tlarving Therefore (faith Solornon)ifhe be found, hefhall reffore leavenfeld, ae illgive all thefubft?anceof his kaufe ; yet this fin ofSealing which is to fatisfie hunger is but a Imall fin compared with Adultery,which is only to fatisfie a mans luß and beaftiail fenfualnes.This Solomon affirrnesto us in the next words; Nut rob) focommitteth adultery witha woman lacð t nderffand- ing, he that doth it def#royeth hi.r own foul. He that ftealeth, upon thofe rearms doth it for want,but he that commits adultery upon any tearmes doth it for wantonnefTe. He that fealeth doth it for lackofbread, but he that committeth adulterydoth it for lackof underftanding. He that flealeth when hè is hungry doth It to fa- tisfie his foul, but he that committeth adultery (though heBoth it not with an intent to deftroyhis foule, yet in the ¡flue hè) de. ftroyeth his own foule. But is not ftealing a foule deftroying fin too ? I anfwer, iris ; and fo is every fin in its ownnature, but there are fotne fins ( and among thefe adultery is a chiefe one ) which in the event prove ufually more deftru ive to the foule, and have oftener deftroyed ic.And as this fin doth veryoften de ¡troy the foulas to itshappineffte hereafter ; fu it defroyeth it as to its abiding here. Thus the foule may be Paid to be deftroyed when the life is deftroyed ; and this"deftruc`tion ofthe foule Solo- mon Teemsdirely to aymear,as the next words lead us to Judge ( ver. 33. ) Awound and didionour (halt beget, andhie reproach all not be wipedarray,forjealoufie is the rage of a man, therefore, be will nor (pare in the stay of vengeance. Another Scripture to be much minded in this poynt is that of St Paul (i Cor.6. s 3,a4.) where writing to the Churchof Co- rinth ( among which people that fin wasverycommon before they were called to the knowledgeofChrift by the preachingof the Gofpe]) he urgethmany arguments upon their confciences, to prevent their relapfe'into-it, And we may dilcover fix argu- ments
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