210 Chap.28. an Expofition upon the Book of J o n. VerS: T. minde of man, another and another, a third,yea a thoufand delires of filver are ready to arise. This God (1 fuppofe) would bave.us underhand from the word withwhich himfelf bath cloathed it. Again, as this informes us, fo it warns us to take heed left our hearts be melted and run out in delires after hiver. We have but need to check and moderate our delires after that which is fo great and fo dangerous an incentive of delire ; etpecially while we remember, that as it isWong to air delires, foit is very weak, yea altogether unable to fatisfie them. HenceSolomon bath con- cluded, (Eccl. $. to.) He that loveth (liver (and whatis delire but love in motion) fhall not be fatisfied with at. Covetous men are compared to a Lyon attending upon the poor to opprefs them, (Pfal. 17. I t, 12.) They have now compaffed us an our fieps, theyhavejet their eyes bowingdown to the earth, like as a Ly.. on that is greedy (or defirous) of bis prey, or as weput in the mar- gin of our Bibles, The likenefs of bim, that is, of everyone of them, u as a Lyon that defireth to ravin. It is this word, As a Lyon watcheth for afiefh prey, fo a covetous cruel man watcheth for a flyerprey, though he tear it out of the bowels of the poor. Man natural affe&ion unto filver is aperturbation :Hc difqutets and puts himfelf to trouble to get ir, and fo he may get it he cares not whom he troublesand ditquiets, no nor whom he dehroyes and ruines. As men are more ealilyovercomeby filver, then byIron Argenteiha- weapons (as it was advifed of old, Fight with filver weapons, and f ispugna dr you win the clay ofall. Silver bathmade more conquehs then Iron ; rmnia vinees> that's the Vigor, which bath led even Conquerors in triumph Now, I fay, as men are fooner overcome by filver then iron wea- pons) fo they who are once overcome with the delire of filver, will makebloody work with iron weapons, rather then not attain their delire. There is a vein for thefilver, and aplacefor the gold, where theyfine it. There two forts of Metal are fet down fo diainetly, as alfo theother two which follow, that they Phew themfelves notonely vain but ridiculous, who tell us that hiver may become Gold, Iron Brats, or that t he more imperfeet of chete metallsmay be wrought up to that which is more perfeóby Art or Chymihry ; Iron to brats, and Brats to Silver, and Silver toGold; Againh which aflertion Pottle of the learned lave concluded fo perempto- rily,
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