Chap. 24 An Expofition upon the Book of Jo ii. Val.] 6 591 But I rather conceive thst this 16th verfe containes a defcripti Eg ¡dent/w- onof another fort offnners,Theeves or Rohbers.Becaufe,though /hi" dr Q- it be true, that Adulterers doefometimes digge through houles, = yet this is both more frequently and more properly the bufinefre rem ; kids has ofTheeves. Another reafon to perfwade this underi anding of lar ones f- the prefènt Text may be, becaufe fo we have a fuller and more e'"nn n t, Acuireri. no per particular enumerationof leverai forts offin and finners. quam raro. In thedark! they digge through haute!. Sand. Todig through honks, is the workof a thiefe.And thus Chrift fpeakes ofthe thiefe ( Luke 12. 39.) And this know that if the goodman cftheboufe had known what honre the thiefe wouldhave come, he would have watched,andnet have (rff red his brasfe to have been broken thranghlacob fayth ofSim.ron and Levi (gen. 49 6.) In their anger they digged ¡borin' a wall. Some breake thorow walls for want, or in covetoufneffe to rob and (kale, others for anger and in wrath to loll and destroy. They dig thorow Which they had markedfor themfelves in the day time. See the method and cunning of theft robbers ; here are three poynts of their finfull skill. Firft. they marke houfes the word'. fignifies, to marke with a feale ; as if they did put their Peale upon other mens houles for their own tare. Theeves goe abroad in the day'time to elp;+ where they may commit 'a robbery with left advantage, and they fer their marke upon fuchhoufes as they re folve to rob ; or, which I rather take to be the mean ng,they di. ligently obferve the fletegthof the houle, the ways to thehoules . what company is in the houle, where theymay with moll cafe and advantage breake into the houfe. All this they doe in the day by way ofpreparation, and in the darks they put their purposes irtoOVAution In the dark.e they digge through houfes which they hadmarked in the day. Hence note. Sinners would makefore works, they would not rust fe. And therefore theyei ther let their marke upon a houle, or exa&i y marke it. Ohowwitty, and how cunningmen are todoe enifchiefe I Secondly, Whereas tbey went from Towne to Towne, and any
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