Chap. 31. Vert. r. t:89 oLaCrita/tAcablArfia*AiÚcetñatalnScalotoiaïaicxf iltdolaciraattSoJsds Z NON - v ii` fiTir I$ ,7i itfiMiePritif 19 fi1"M?gFilEV 3 C B Chapt. -31, verf, 1. I made a Covenant with mine eyes why then fhould I think,e upon a maid ? N this Chapter 7.b makes a large narrative a- bout his owre integrity and exaét walkings, according to the rule ofthe Word in clinic both toGod and man. Yea, hedoth not only fay it, but fweare it, binding the heavieft cur- fes upon himfelfe by dreadful! ieaprecations of divine vengeance, ilkwere not fo ; And this he did, not as the Pharifie (Luke r $. ) proudly to proclaimehis ovine goodnes, but to w pe off the dirt of thofe afpe: lions which his friends had caft upon him ; or to ¡hew that he was no fuch man as they imagined him ; and that therefore he was not held under the preffure of thole grievous .offerings, as a punifhment, eyther of anydole hypocrifie, or of any open wicked practices. Upon the whole matter he might well hope that his friends would take up better thoughts,and a more (quail opinion ofhim ; or if after all theprofellions of his integrity they fbould not udge him a good man , that yet they would be more fencible of thole evills which he had for fo long a time en- dured. T hefe or, Purely, loch as thefe were lobs aymes, while throughout this whole Chapter he laboured fo earnailly to purge himfelfe from the fulpition of many both groffe crimes, and fetter fns. The fecret fins from which hepurged himfelfe, w= re Firft, Urschaft delires, or heart- uncleanenes, which he was fo farre from nourithing or feeding , that he did Lis utmeft to P p pre-
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