Chap. 28. An Expoftion upon the Zook, of Jo a. Verf. 23. 399 (hewed before, that the fear of the Lord is no only wifdom, but thebell wifdom, not the wifdom of this World which God will dearoy, not the wifdom of Politicians, nor the wifdom of Philofophers,whìch (hall petifh ; but fpiritual wifdom ; fo to de- part from evil, is not the natural or common underfianding of -mat as man, but the fpecial and fpiritual underilanding of Saints as Saints. And when the Lord faith , To depart from evil is un- derffanding ; It is, as if he hid faid, let menboaft of the pregnan- cy of their parts, and wit,and underfianding, as much as they will, yet there is no man .truly witty or underflanding, there's no man bath a true pregnancy of parts, buthe, who in the homily and in- tegrity of his foul, d epartethfromevil, From the words thus opened obferve, Firfl , fin is evil ; fin is the evil, Slabs evil,. and theworff of evils ; he that departs from fin, departs from evil. Beforethere was fin in the world, there was no evil in the world ; Godjaw all that be bad made, andbehold it was very good But as loon as fin, which was the 6rfl, and is the ,greacea evil} carne in, all other evils thronged in with ir. Wemay demonflrate the evil of (n, or how great an evil fin is, manywayes. Fitt+, Sin is fo bad that nothing can be faid of it worfe then it therefore the Apoflle (Rom. 7. i 3.)fpeaking of the evil of fan, goeth not out-of its felf for a title of difhonour and difcom- mendation. (Róm.7. -13.) where acquitting the Law of doing . him any hurt, he chargesh all upon fin ; Was then that which, to good made death unto me ? God forbid. But fin that it might appear fin, working death in me by that which is good :That finby the corn. mandement might become exceeding fnfsel. Here are twoexprefii. ons letting out the evil of fin, and both tell us that it fell is the worff word it can be expreffed by:Firfl,( faith he)fin that it might appear fin ; As if be had laid, when fin appears like it felf, that's theblackeff and mot/ horrid appearance of it, or there can no re- prefentation be made of it by any other thing to reach the evil of ir. When fin appeares fin, then (as we fay) it appeareth in its, proper colours. Sin puts on fometimes fuck borrowed fhapes and colours, as make it look fomewhat hanfome, but when ever it isfeen.inits.own thape, °cis snugly milhapen Mcaller. Se- condly, ,
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