6t6 Chap. 24. An expoition npo, The TookofJ O B. Verf. 19. pu: the ?ewes tomuch fuffering for their fins,yet fin they would; why fhsnid re beffricken any more, ( faith he, Ifa. a. 5 ) Te will revolt moreand more ; while I have been (hiking, ye have been revolving. The lame percicacy is complainedof (¡ía.57.17.) 1 (mote him, and wai r'ratb,yet he went onfrowardly in the way ofbit heart ; thatis, in a fi ull way. The heap t ofman knowes noother way,till himfelf is formed after theheart of God, and in that fin - full way he will got, though God m:ke his heart ake as hegoes, I _rotate hive, and wai wrotb,3et he went on, &c. Indrrntht and beate they rah, andin the fnowwater. Againe, we may take drought,heate,and fnowwater,not only as importing their fuffcrings while they were doing in filch times, but alto as importing the feverall feafons of time,as if hehad Paid, they will fin both winter and fummer, that is,continually ; we fay of tome, theyare never well neitherfull norfaf?ing; As full and falling imply all the conditions ofman, fo hot andcold, fummer and winter, imply all divifions of time. Hence note. Evilmen will doe evil! aliwayet. Sinning time is never out with them, they doe not fin by fits or (tarts, in an ill mood onely,or through a lireffe of temptation; but they fin from a principle within,they have a fpringofwicked- nefs within,and that will ever be fending and flowingout. A good man may be overtaken with fin at any time, but heBoth not fin at all times, in winter, and fummer, in heat, and cold. Corrupti- onwill be working where Grace is, but where Grace is not, no- thingworkesbut corruption. Ifwicked men be not doing evil/ in every moment of time, it is not becaufethey at any time would notdoe evill,but becaufe at all times they cannot; And therefore the tranflationnow underhand fpeakes oftheir whole life u one continued a&offin. Theyfin to thegrave. That 11,611 they dye,and fo are caryedout to thegrave;So that this manner of(peaking, They fin so shegrave. lignifies theut- rnof4 perfeverance ofwicked men in finning ; as ifit had not been enough to fay;they fin inbeate, and cold, winter, and fummer, but
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