6ro Ckapï 2.ç. An .Expnfirion upr» tbcBook,óf JQB. Verf. 18. fie found of theCurie is a great way behind the fin, no fight nor found of the curie for a long time. As, light is [Own for the righte- ottd ( Pfal. 97. I I. ) that is, They (hall have a crop of good thing;, though it lye, as feed cloth, a great while under the clods, and as dead in the furrowes ;So dsrkneffe is fown for the wicked, t4 ey perceive it not yet, but they fi;all be wrapt up in it for ever ; yea while they perceive it nor, they are in it, and they are by fí much the more in it,by howmuch the leffe they perceive it. For, this is ever true. The portionofthe wicked is ct,rfed in the earth, though they feeme compaffed about with bleflìngs. /will curie your bl ° _Ong:, faith the Lord, ( (Mal. 2.2.) lea I have carted the», already. The wicked may be rich, and yet curfed,honoura- ble,and yet curfed,fucceffeful in bufieneffe,and yetcarfed,bleffed, and yet curled,God Both curie their bleffingc. That which is a Weir( g in the kind and matter of ir,is to tomea curie in the ufe & iffue ofit, So then;ae,Gocilineffe if pr fitablefor all things,& bath the prcmife of this life at well at of tbat which is to come (r Titelae., ál.) Godlinefe. is compaffvd about and cloathed with promises ofall forts and feafons. So ungodlineffe is unprofitable for all, things, &mikes hiín that is fo, miserable in all things.For it bath thecurfe of this life, andofthat which is to corne;ifthe promise doe not meet a godly man in this life,or in the thingsof this life,yet it will in the life to come,and in the things ofthe life to come,yca in ail things fo far as concerns the life to course, thebleßìng alwayes meets him. And if the curie do not meet a wicked man in Luis life,yet it will in the life to come , and is the things of the life to come, yea in all thing; fo feare as concernes the life to come,The curie alwayes meetes him. Then fee the folly of thofe, who feare the Curfe; and are not afraid offin ; as if a man should fear drowning,and yet call him idle into the water, or fear burning, and yet throw himfelfe into the fire ; thus doe they who love fin, andfeare the curie. Iithe beauty ofboline edoth nottake upon the heart, yet the curie that attends fin may deterre from medling with it. And did men know the terrour ofthe Lord, (as the Apoflle fpeakes, 2 Con 5. i r. ) they would eafilybe perfwaded to take heed of fin, even ofevery fin, for though lually great fins bring the curie, yet.the kart fins may. They who knowwhat the curie of the Lord is, . cannot but know what the terror ofthe Lord is, that is, that the Lord
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