Chap. 24. An Expofftion upon the Book. of J OB. Vert i 8 . 6o e is flowoffoot ; all fwifr things are light. The meaning of this Interpretation is, thata wicked man is a contemptibleC, eature what is he when he bath done all chofe mifchiefes before'fpecify eel and walketh to wearineffe in all thole finfull wages? The belt Proverbial r/oè account which we can give of him is this ; He it light, or as a light quitío o' exFri- thing,upon theface ofthe water ; which is a Proverbial! fpeech to mera;r a q'tid lixpreffe that which is nothing worth. Thus the deRru:dion ofd " d theKingofSamaria is expreffed ( Hof. 10, ¡.) ,4rfir Lama ni tii: eft. Bold. ria,ber King iscut of f,u thefoamupon the water,or(as the margin L.veo Bruno T bath it) upon the fare of the water, that is though hebe a great yes fopor King, yet he fh.ail perifh as a very light, endcontemptible t ing,fglfuabun ai. even as a little foame andfroth, or as a bubble upon the water, bont,d:jftrerr. Hence obferve. wickedneffe malefs men contemptible and vile,tbey are but as light things upon the water. In the 21 of this booke (v. 18. ) thewicked are laid to be as Pebble before thefi're,andas Chile before the wbirlewind.So(`Da- vid,Plal. i,g.) fpeakingofthewicked in general!, faith, They are like the chaffewhich the wind drivetb away. Stubble and chaffe are light things,and they are alto worthleffe things ; what's the Rubble worth, or what the chaffe ? What is the chaffe to the wheat ? fuch are wicked men incomparifon ofthe Godly. The Scripturedoch even ftrive for Expreflions (as I may fay) to let forth the lightneffe, the vanity,indeed, the nullity ,the not . entity, the nothingneffe of men given up to their lulls. David (Pla1.62. g. ) fpeaking ofthem who trirff in opprefflon, andbecome vaine in robbery, faith, theyare vanityand a lye, and that to be layd in the dallance,theyare altogether lighter then vanity. And Solomon put. ring the tongueofaGodly man, and the heart of a wicked man together into the ballance,gives this determination between them (`Prov. r o. ao.) The tongueof thejuff isar cboyce Aver but the heart ofthe wicked is little worth. The heart is there taken in the higheft fence, for the belt thing that the wicked man bath ; for though where the heart is nought, it is the worft thing that a man bath, yet the fence of the proverbe is to thew that theheft thing that a wicked man bath is of little worth, and therefore thein- Rance is made in that which he accounts his chiefeft treafure, his heart for by the heart, all that man bath within him , all the H h h h powers
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