ma Chap. 24. An E'xpojition upon the Book of Jo B. Verf.16. yet hecannot be d.feerned, and chat though fome may fee where he is, yet none fhall fee who he is, He difguifetle hisface. One would have thought that being in the twilight, and the darkenes of the night ready to corn paffe him about, that no eye could fee him, he fhould not need to have puc on a vifard or a muffler, yet he doth fo, he puts a difguife upon his face. Which may teach us. That when a man doth ill, he never thinker he isfafe, or fecret enough. When a mans confcience tells him he fins, he would not have any other tell him fo too. The Adulterer feares twilight is too light for him, and therefore while the natural! darkeneffe is fo inperfeft; he puts his face into perfeft artificiall darkeneffe. lob yet proceeds to thew this cowardly temper of (inners in eh, i- fear to be feen,either by a further difcovery or the fame fort of ftnne.s, or ofaoother fort, in the fame frame. Vert. i6. In the darbe they dig through h,ufet which thei have markedfor themfelves in the day time, they know not the light. We haveall along the words, and the workes ofdarkeneffe;ln the dark!, they dig through houfes. The queftion is, who are here meant by thefe diggers ; force underftand theverfe of the: adulte- rer ; And whereas he tpeakes here in the plurali number, and be- fore in the ficgulat.; 'cis frequont in Scripture ( fay they ) to va- ry the number while the fame fuhjeft is continued.And that while he faith, They, the meaning is One and all of them are Dent and apt enough to doe thus. But is digging through houles the work ofan Adulterer ? In anfwer to this, it bath been ftoryed and re- Xæc domaoum mernbred, that Adulterers have aired fuck boyfterous praftices to profeijia non ad come at their unlawful( pleafures;they have digged through hou- latroctnta NOG- fes tomake private paffages that they might not be difcovered turn:, fed ad when they carne to, or when they departed from their lovers. turpes arses pa It hash beencommonly fayd that hunger will breake through nitro"d` in a- fenas domr,J (tone walls, and 'cis a truth that wantonnes will doe fo too. Some :ranifeflèpoYti. have been fo mad upon their lofts, that ifthey could not finde a net. Pined: way, theywould make one to meete with their paramours Upon this confideration we may fairlyenterpret this verle (as the for mer )concerning the Adulterer. But
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