4o; Chap. ; r. An Expofïtion ;Ion the Book! of Joy. Verf.to, Torre ins that are punifited witlefin, have thegreateft punilb nient. There is nothing fo bid as fin, and therefore fin mufi needs be the foreít punifhment; God is never snore difpleafed or provo- ked, then when he puffers men to doe that which difpleafeth and provokes hint more, Thus the Lord pim flied the wickedneffeof the old Gentiles ( Rom. i. 26. :8.) By giving them up to vile af- fetlions, and a reprobate minde, and fo to rhofe bodily fiithineffcs which are the abhorrence of nature; all which the Apofie wraps up in thole milder words ( which yet have a world ofdivine re- venge in them) The doing of chofe things which are rot conve- rient. Sin is a worfe punifhment, then fword and fire, then po- verty and fiekneffe, then famine and peflilence, and death, yea then a thoufand bodyly deaths. Sin is a punifhment without bound or bottome , no man knowes the hight and depth, the length and breadth of it. Who can tell when or where it will end ?'tis end leffe. WhenGod punifheth a fin,with fin upon our felves, or families, upon our wives and children, O how dreadfull a punifhment is that I and O how deeply doe they fin, who pro- voke the Lord to punish their fin with fin,giving up eyther them - felves or their relations,wives or children to take their full Twinge in the fameor in any other finfull way, whereinwe have gone a- firay, and departed from the livingGod. None are fo miferable as they who profiler in fin, who goe on finning and profper- tn Laf4ly , Confider that the language which the holy Ghoft u- feth in this verfe, Both as much cover as expreffe thole asof filthineffe, and uncleancneffe. Hence obferve. When wefpeaks ofuneleane things, we Amid wrap them up in clean. words. The Scripture is rightlycalled the holy language ; For fo it is, not only becaufe the matter it fpeaks of is all holy, or becaufe it fpeaks alwayes to a holy purpofe, but alto becaufe when it fpeaks of things unholy and offenfive, not fit to be named, it hill (ha- dowes themwith fuchmetaphors and circumlocutions as take a- way theoffenfivene re of them. Thus, The eating of nature is cat-
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