664 Chap. 31. As Expoßtiers upon the Took of Jo E. Vert. 33 dignity, in the quickneffe of his parts and gifts, in the belt dreffe or habit ofNature or of Grace. Secondly , enolh, which notes man compaffed about with in- firmity, even weakly, fickly, fad and forrowfull man, or man ( though poí1i l renewed by grace; yet) yet cloathed and bur- dened with the troublefome lines of a finfull nature. The thirdword is that of the tear, Adam, and this bebrg; to all maniinde, or to man as man,whether great or (mall, thong or weake, every man is Adam, his body beingof the earth earthly. If Ihave coveredmy tranfgrejions as Adam ; That is, as men ufu- ally doe. Thu; the Prophet fpeakes ( H,fea 6.7.) Sat they, like men, have tranfgreffed the Covenant. We put in the Mirgin,like e rdam. And in the M,rgin ofthis text in 7e6, we put , after the mannerofmen , If Icovered my tranfgre"ens after themanner of men; That is,as the race andgeneralityof mankinde have hereto- fore done and doe to this day. A. if he had fayd, Ihave not trod the patio, nor followed the coterie ofthe world, who make it their fi.ß Wines to fn;andtheir next to cover and bide their fint.Mr.Brosgb- ton tranflates fully to this fence of the word; If 1 have covered my fin as every man dreh ; implying that this is an epidemical) pra- dical direafe, infecting all forts and degreesof men. If 1 cove- redmy tranfgref ons su Adatrs, By bikingmine inigsitie in my beforste. in thefe words 7,b bother explaines how he did not cover his fin, Hedid not bide it in his bo/ome. The word tranflated to hide, notes a cunning artificiall hiding, fuch as hunters or fowlers ufe when they would take their. prey, Thefe le their nets veryclole- ly ( for as Solomon faith (Pro. 1. I 7.) Srsrely in vane a the net fpread in thefight ofany bird ) and fo the Praimitt exp-efi th it in the fameafufton (Pfal. 9. a s.) The b, atben are fa=:ke dorane in the pit that they made, in the Mt which obey hid is their ozone foste taken ; Such a hiding ofhis iniquity lob denyerb, a cicfe cunning hiding ; or like that of thefLarhfull man (Pro. 19 24. ) who hi- deck his band is his befame,and will not bring it to his monthagaine, he had rather ftarve then worke, and peri(h rather thenbe at the paines to feed himfeife. Thus the firmer hídeth his iniquity in his bofome, and will not bring it to his mouth againe ; that is, he had rather be, at leaft he will venture to be, damned then con- `cfle Si texi frcut reh7ui b^mi- nes. t>'rrc:
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