Chap. 3 r. An Expojftiost upon the Book? of J o ta. Verf. 7. 369 Wee mutt looke to our eyes, left they innate our hearts, and cum ea que g- un muff looke toour hearts, left they be infnared by our eyes ; rniti.7 conch% ft but I fhall not infift upon this, having fpoken to it before at the mere, vide re firft verle; and there (hewed hog diligent we ought to be in capiarrr i,fd,% watching the eye, and in keeping the heart from walking or wan- ram in illie 1 ; dering vainly after it, lob having protefted his integritie in this queus r%n efea poynt, Ifmine heart loathwalked after mine eye, makes yet a fur- "'erns laririt Cher proteftation JVeq; eninr no- dem pifrator And ifany blet bath cleaved to my . um'n _ f Ï ld hands As the heart ofa naturall man is ready to walke after his eyes, rreYvenue fo his hands are ready to worke after his heart,or he is apt to doe rar.'oaac. what his heart fuggefteth. Therefore yob to cleare himfelfe quite thorough, profe(feth, that as his heart didnot follow his eye, fo his hand had not been defiled by his heart, that is, by any worke which his heart had fet him about : He doth none but good and cleane worke, who is able ( as yobhere did) to challenge all the world and fay, Ifany blot loath cleavedto my hands: Some ofthe Hebrews render the Original word generally, as fignifyirg any thing : Ifany thing loath cleaved to my hands, that is, any unlawful! or unjuft thing. We take it ftrictly and expreffe- ly for an evil! thing ;which whatfoeverit is, is a blot. 1fa#y blot ( fpot ortaint) bath cleaved to my hands. This carrieth the mindof the text more clearely, thoughboth rendrings meete in the fame interpretation. The blot here dif- claimed by yob is a finblot, or any unrighteous act ; As if he had fayd, Ifany unjuft gaine, thegaine of opprrfon loath cleaved to my bands, then let me beoppreffed, let metome andanother tate, &c. 'Tis fayd ofthole captiveJewes, who purpofed not to defile peidaAeorao; themfelves with the Kings meate, that they were children in whom rum E1'tC was no blemifh, but wellfavouredand skilfull in all wifd'me, Ac. macula exo- nent ±ftJlptil> (Dan, . 4.) As they had no bodyly blemi(h upon them, fo they qu,am eerx were careful! to keepe themfelves from any foule-blemifh or mo- ¡citicot aliena,ñ a. rail blot. This alto was fo much the careof holy 7eb, that he Per f aedern aut durft flake oradventure all that he had or evermight have in the raptnam, d codeen fu fe male world, upon the clearing ofhis honour & integrity in that poynt. fenpro macula. B b 6 If Marc.
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