Chap. 3 I. An expoj4 ioa Plot the Book of J o B. Wert. 33. 671 molt ofmen to cover one fin with another, to cover fin by that which is it felfe more ínfull..Toall loch the Lord faith, Woe to them that cover with a covering, but not (I'm), Spirit ; that is,not with fuch a covering as my Spirit bath hewed them anddire&ed them unto ; There indeed adde fin to fi ; The covering is as Gin- full as the fin which they would cover. But what are thole coverings (difclaimed here by 7:b) and which are ufually made by the tons of men to keepe their tranf- grefiions out of fight, or fecret ? For anfwer to this quede, I hall hew you fix covers of fin, all invented and ufed by finfull man, and the fxthwill give occa- fion tó fpeake further to this poynt. Fitt Sin is covered when 'tis not confedfed, or by bare con- cealement; When Achan had taken the accurfed this g,the good- ly Babylonifb garment, the wedge of gold, and the two hundred fhekels of (liver, he hid them and never fayd 'twas he, till the lot fayd 'twas he. The lot told the tribe, the lot told the family, the lot told the houthold, yea the lot came upon his owne head, and yet he hood mute and fpake not a word ofhis fin, till 7ofhua fayd unto him ( ?G/h: 7. 19) My fongive I pray thee,glorytothe Lord God ofIfrael, and maize confern unto him, and tell me now, what haß thou done, hide it not ; As ifhe had fayd, hitherto thou hail hid thy tin by not confeffing it, but let meadvife thee, hide it no longer. Some malefa&ors fiend mute before the Judge, they concede their fin, and they have a ¡udggemei,t futabie, they (land filent like a (tone , and are covered and preffed todeath with hones. He that Both not difcover his íin when and as he ought, covers it. 'Tis dangerous enough to doe that which needs con-, fe(liion, but not to confeffd what we have fo done is defperate. Secondly , There is a covering of fin by putting the ate done upon others,or by caufing them toovine it as if we haddone no- thing. David, a holyman. laboured to make this covering, for his great tranfgre(liow. When he had committed adultery with BathJhebah, and thee havingconceaved, fent and told David,(ay- ing I any with child he prefently in all haft lent for Vriah her husband home out of the Army,and ufed all the meanes his hard- ned heart and fubtle head could invent to make him got home and converfe with his wife (z Sam: I a. 6, 7, &c. ) th ;t. fo it might be fuppofed the child was Isis. But the man was of a gal- lant
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