296 Chap. 3 I. An Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf. Z. thewomanfan, that the tree was goodforfood andpleaftent to the eyes,&c. fhee tookeof thefruit thereof and did ease. Solomoncoun- fels, not to looke upon the wine when it is red, when itgiveth his co- lour inthe cup(Pro.23.3 r.)becaufe drunkennes and the intempe- rate ufe of the creature may come in at the eye. Achan confef- feth (7o. h. 7. 2 r.) when Ifain among thefpoyles agocdly Babyla- nifhGarment, &c. then Icoveted andtooke them. tjovetoufneffe enter'd at his eye; Our Lord JefusChrift was tempted to that fin by theeye ( Mat. 4.8.) The Devil!Cooke him up into an exceed- ing high mountains, and /hewed him all the kingdmmes (fthe world, andthe Glory ofthem ; But he neither coveted, not woke them. Thus (I fay) the Scripturegives inftance of feverall fins begin. ning at the eye, but of all fins the entrance ofuncleanenes at the eye is molt exampl'd in Scripture. That firft unequall matching in marriage is thus defcribed ( Gen. 6. 2.) The Sons of god ( that is, the dekendants of Seth and Enoch, who profeffcd the pure worfhipofthe true God )faw the daughters ofme. ( that is,fuch as came of the wicked and curled race of Cain) that they were faire, and they tooke them wives ofall whim they thole. They were guided by fence, notby reafon, much leffe by grace,in the choice of their wives. They bad no refpe& to fpirituall beauty or de- formity, but only to that which was corporali ; they cared not how foule andugly foules their wives had, fo they had but faire faces and a white skin. While men chufe wives meerely by the eye, their marriage is a kind ofAdultery, and themfelves maybe numbred among the uncleane, fo they are in heart and in their fate both perfonal and relational. As finfull marriageswere oc. cafion'd by the eye, fo alto were (innings both betide and agaicft marriage. When Dinah, acobs daughter, went out to fee the daughters of the Land, Sechem the Sonof Humor, the Hivite, Princeof the country fan, her, and tooíe her, and lay with her,and defiledher, (Gen. 3 4. I, 2. ) Yea Davidwas thus defiled,while walking upon the roofe ofhis horde , he law a woman watíh:ng her feile, and the woman ( faith the text ) was very beautiful! to locke uson (2Sam. I I.2.) yt hen Chrift faith ( Math. 5.28. ) Whofoever lookethon a woman to lei; after her, hath committeda- dultery with her already in his heart ; He more then 'intimates that whofoever looketh wantonly on a woman , is at next doore to or within a ftepofbodily Adultery. And hence the Apottle Peter
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