Chap. 31. An Expofttiots upon the Booke cf J o E. Vert; 33, 605.. feffe or difcover it;He will not bring his höfome fin to his Mouth in a holy confeflïon eythcr toGod or 'Tian, 1( faith 7.b) kemit not hid mine iniquitie. That is, the iniq City which 1 am molt prone to, and which my heart goeth matt after ; every man !lath fame iniquity, which he may call his fpeciall iniquity more then ny other iniquity. The word iniquity in this latter partof the verfe and tran!or ton in r'V pr4v'itat the former are the fame in fubftance ; yet this word properly fìg- f ct tier /rra:. nifieth that which is crooked or brved.Holy actions are ftraight right, and tend upward ; finfull actions are crooked and bend downward. Cain the firfi borne finger applyed this word. to his fin, or to the fruir of it, his punifhment, or to both ( ilea, 4. 13.)My punifhment is greater then I can beetre;we put in the Mar- gin, (Aline iniquity ió greater, then that it may be forgiven. And as it notes the crookednes of our a&inns, fo the vilioftty of cur natures, or originall fin ( Pfal. 51. 5. ) Behold ( faith repenting `David) IwasAapen in (that ts,oft creaked and mifnepen thing called) iniquity. This original iniquity as wel as any actuall ( though theformer lyes cloleft and deepeft there) mutt nor be hidden in our bofome ; and we may wel cor.ceave that 76b had an ayme at this, when he fayd, 1have not covered nay trimgref-. on., by hiding mine iciquitie in my bojeme. This phrafe, To hide iniquity in the bofome, imports the nears ft Iiehras'7ï' . clofing withand loving imbraces ofaoy iniquity. The bofome is it Print meo, a fecret place, and to put a thing in the bofome , is to keere it as''ihttJ "l"ir fecret as we can. Thus fame trnnfL.!e the text, by bidi;; -,s y ini. cal o CO et a. quieie in ferret., or inficreffe; that is, in the remotefi retr;'ements tjbe..Io, inter in the croft privy boxes and contrivements of the heart and con. firinia fc: et fcie.nce. Our Lord J Pus Chritt, who was manifelted in the 1h11. rogitanones ter. neffe oftime, and had been hidall the time or rather eternity be- A`l'r Tsai ; non fore from the world, is fayd to come out of the bofome of the xkurn e9 quin lrar7i a.i Father ( john I. T 8..) .And john the beloved Difeiple leaned in menrù rti rtecefern C'briffi bofome.(7oh.i3.23 .)shat is,he hadmolt intimateconverfe et ron.lienria. with Chrift, and knew more ofhis heart then molt of the other a'canwn tat Difciples; We commonlycall a very neere friend a Bofamefriend, yercenineat. Q.q 9 9 Yet `,
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