402 Chap. 28. An Expofition upon he 3ook of Jo B. Verf. 28. work upon a twofold account (as was roucbt before) Firft, as that which he isalwayes doing ; fecondly, as that which he de- tires and endeavours all fhould doe ; he is turning every ftone, and oyling all the wheels of mans corruption, that they may be carried on. How evil is that which is the work of the Devil, that evil one! Thirdly, The evill of fin appeares, as it is theaufe of all penal evils ; how evil ischar, as done, which is produeStivc of all evills endured. Sin bath (word, and famine, andpe(lilence, anddeath, yea and bd! io the belly of ir. (lames .1 5.) wienlufi bath con, c cved,it brirgeth forth fin,ard fin when it isfi>,tfhed bringethforth death. Luft h firft a mover unto fin (v. 14.) Every man it temp- eel when be is drawn away of his own lteß and enticed : fecondly, lull is the mother of fin we have it firít teeming, loft conceives; fccondly,we have it in travel, itbringcth forth fin ; fin the daugh- ter is as fruitful as luft the mother; for when that is grown to ma- ,urity, or (as the Apoftles word is) when'tiefrifhed, it conceives' allo, and beareth a tillage abortive, a pure privative, its Mlle is ,dill born, yet not fo much dead, as death. Sin when it it fiiiflied, bringeth forth death. The fira motions of fin, or fins unfinifhed dtferve dearh,chough fin fully acted and finned be that to which death is cheifly afcribed,with refpecat to theevetst, as allo to the evidence and confpicuoufncfs of it. And as thisScripture, by an elegant fimilicude of a pregnant woman, makesdeath the child of fin ; fo that of the Apoftle by another elegant fimilitude.of a jufi Mafier,makcs death the wages offin(Rom.6.23.)He that commits fin is the fervent offin, and fin will pay all its fervanrs (it bath no better coyn among all its treafures) in this blackmoney called Death which is fogreat a penal evil, that itincludes and is put for all other penal evils.When the Prophet had foretold the 7ewr what difmal cloudes of wrath and judgement were ready to break . and íhowre down upon them, he alto cells them from what va- pours chofe clouds had been colleeted and embodyed(pr.4. z S.) by wryer and thy doings have procured theft things to thee. Whir wbvcs ?. thy finful wayee. Thy doings ; what doings ? thy evil do gs,a,t;at;pcatrethplainly by the next words,this is thy w'cked- rr,{r b cemfe, it is bitter, becautie it reacheth to thineheart ; that is, all 'he evils,.,rroubis,and forrows that are ready to fall upon thee, are nothing elle but thy fins;finprocureth the greateft evills,there- forc lip is the greatefr evil, Fourthl
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