3 aq. Chap. 3 t. Expofielon upon the Book! of J O s. Vert.3. neffe in their heart, but they did worke it there The heart is a Pop within, an under, groundPop, there theydid clofely contrive forge and hammer out their wicked purpofes, and fit them into aáions : yea they weighed the violenceoftheir hands in the earth. That's an allufion to Merchants, who buy and fell by weight, they weigh their Commodity to an ounce, they doenot give it out in groffe but by ex .6t weight. Thus ( faith the Pfalmift ) they weigh the violenceof their bands , they doe not oppreffe groffely,bat with a kind ofexaftnes and skill,they fit downe and confider what &how much violence they may ufe in fuch a cafe, . or how much fuch a perfon may endure , or fuch a feafon may beare ; They are wifer then to doe all at once, or all to one, left they fpoyle all. They weigh what theydoe, though what they doe be fo bad that it will hold no weight, when God comes to weigh it. Nordoe they arive at this skill prefently, but after they have (as it were) fferved an apprentifhip for it; And they binde themfelves to the trade very early; For as it foliowes at the third verle ofthat Praline The wicked are eftranged from the womb, they goe afray as tome as they are borne,fpeaking lye', that is,they are eftranged both by nature, and by early prance ; they loofa no time, they goe to it young, even as Toone as they are borne, that is, as Toone as they are fit for any ufe, or to doe any thing, they are ufìng and fitting therafelves to doe wickedly. Secondly, As thefe workers of iniquity may be taken for all fludyed or great (inners ofany kinde ; fo for that fpeciall kind or fort offinners,who give themfelves over to uncfeanenes and wan- tonnes, which is the fpeciall iniquity which fob here difclaimes, and from which he had, by a facredcovenant with his eyes, la- boured to preferve.himfelfe. Is not a ffrange punilhntent to the workers of (this ) iniquity_ Hence obferve. God doth often in 41 unheardofor ftrange pnniJhments upon uncleane perfrns. As there is no refolved firmer, but God followeth him with punifhments; fo he followes fuch finners with ftrange punifh- tagents. And as they often devife new wages to fatisfie ( which will never be fatisfied) their tuft ; So God may be fa}d to de. vife new wayes to facisfie( which muff be fatisfied) his Juf#ice. Thera
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