Chap. 24. An Expofttion upon the Boob of JO a. Verf. as. 585 in it and prepared for it,fo the true lice ofwickednefs is,when a mans heart is in it and prepared for it. This is the proper cha. rader ofa wicked man. The eye ofthe a rldolterer waiteth for the twilight. Every word bath weight in it, the twilight is the Adulterers feafon ; It is not fayd, he wanes for the night, or for the day,but he waiteth for the twilight, which is neither day nor night, but between both. We have Inch a defcriptionof time in reference to the mixt anduncertaine Rate of things (Zack. 14. 6, 7.) And it /hall come topaffe in that day, that the light jhall not be cleare nor dark ; But it jhallbe one day which li all be known to the Lord, not day nor night. Such a thing is Twilight, it is neither cleare nordarke, neyther day nor night, but between both. There is a twofold twilight; firft, the morning twilight ; and, fecondly,the Diluculum. evening twilight; the morning twilight begins when the night ends, the evening twilight begins when the day ends. The Latines Crept have two diftinft words to cxprefíe thele diftinet twilights by, bur our language is not fo well ftored, and therefore we mutt di- ftingaifh them by the matter fpoken of, or the fcope ofthe fpea. ker. Thus here, when 'cis f id in the text, he waitethfor the twi- light, we are to underhand it ofthe evening twilight, not for the morningt c ilight,and the reafon ís,becaufe the morning twilight is not for theadulterers turn or purpofe,for then the light prevails upon thedarkoeffe, but it is theevening twilight, for thendark- nelle prevails upon the light. And that this is the Adulterers twi. fight is cleare (Prov.7. y. 6, 7, 8, 9.) At the windowofmy houfe ( faith Solomon) I.loobed through the cafement, and behold' among fox et trnebra the /impie ones, Idifcerned among the youths a man voyd ofunder- ádmini/ir e junt ,(fandin b the way her rmpiia juarum gpiing y y houfe, and he went veer her cor- litidinnm: ipfa ner, in the tw:light in the evening (or) in the evening oftheday, nox alioquin ta- in the black and dark! night. And behold there met him a woman co infandarum with the attire ofa harlot, &c. His eye waited for the 'tiligh¢ lamen litiidini andin the twilight he was taken. ' otutatxs c¡fàa Hence note. , es`t. Thedoingofevil/ kath it: proper leafn,, as well as the doing of good. Though fin benever.in feafon, et it hátb fometimes which 'are F f f f more
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