296 Chap. 28; an Expofition apon the Book, ofJ o s. Verf. zT. will ye lovefimplicity ? and ye fcorners deligb t in[corning, andfools bate knowied,ge ? And (v 23.) Iwill make known my words unto you. Pius ,wi dorn cryeth, and cryeth her mon precious wares in the open firects and greaten throngs of men, there (he cryeth her wares more precious then the Gold ofQpbir,yet none,that is, few or none, regard them more then tra(h, or braided ware. She uttereth her voice, theurtereth her words in the opening of the gates, at which an pats, there the is known and utters words more excellent then Jewelsof fine a old,yet the canget no utter- ance, meets with no confiderable market for them, as appeares but too plainly in that moil wrathful and threatning account, which the gives of the reception andentertainment which both her felf and ber counfels found among the children of men,(v.24.) Becarefe I bave called;and ye refufed,l have ftretched out my band, and no man regarded, bat ye have fee at nought all my, counlel, and Would none of my- reproof ; 1 alfo wi11la1hatyour calamity, &C. As if the had Paid, you have even laught at, or made a (corn of the counfel which I brought and offered you,and therefore I (hall but ferve you in your kinde, to laugh at the calamities which (hall be brought and laid upon yoe. How fad is it to fee, that menwill not receive wifdom revealed , And this (as Chrin bath a%reed, Job. 3. 19.) is the condemnation, that light iscome into theworld, and men loved darkneft rather then logbt. Secondly, The vanity of man app .ares, as in a dull negleet of what is revealed,fo in an eager purfuit of what is lockt up and hid- den; as in refufing the light for the love of that moral darknefs,fin, fo in prefing after that light which God bath compaffed about with the trtinical darknefs of fecrecy, inrruding t he Aponte {peaksfgnificantly to this poynt, Col. 3. 180 into s g they have not feen, yea into thofe things which cannot be feen, bemire God bath not revealed them ; and whence comes this in- trufion ? The next words of the Aponte (hew us whence: even frompride offpirit, or from being vainly poft up by their fe(hly mind. There's fle fh in the undernanding, as well assn the will and of etions of man,and in thefled there Ispride,and'Lis pridewhich makes men fo bufie andbold, fo boldly bufie, as (unasked,yea forbidden) to intrude themfelves into the things they have not feen. This was the dinemper of Chrins own Difciples, who, when theyhad admiringly (hewed him the buildings of the Tem- ple,
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