696 Chap. 31. An Expofition upon the Book of Jos. Verf. 33 There are yet other obfervations which I f hall give fromthis Text, when I have added only this one word ofCaution from all that I have fayd. Beware ofthis pra&ice,the coveringoffin,as much as of com- mitting it; and know that to cover a fin committed, is to com- mit a new one ; yea they whomake cobweb coverings for their tranfgreffions ( fuch are thefeand all fuch.l;ke excufes) will be forced atlaff: as they (Revel: 6. 16. ) to call to the rock. to cover them, and to the meuntaines tobide them (but all in vaine) from the pretence of him that fits upon the throne, andfrom the wrathof the Lambe. There is but one covering oftranfgreffion which can Hand us in anyHead, yefus Chrifi< our realiPropitiatory. Goe to Chrift, and make him your covering, cover your !elves with his righteoufneffe, that's a garment large enough and clone enough to hide all your fins, and to keepe off all that wrath which fin bath deferved , and calls for ; cover your fins with thefecond A- dam, but doe not cover your fins as the fif# ,dam ; eyther by the excufes mentioned, or by any other ; they are all deceitful', and too narrow for the purpole. This holy and good man gob, protefled he never made fuch finfull artifices the hidings of his fin. ifI have coveredmj tranfgre, ono ar Adam, byhideing mine iniquity in my bolo ve. From74/ (cope and defigne in making this proteflation,that he had not covered his tranfgreffions. Obferve, Thirdly. To cover and hide fin isfin ;'t1ó the adding o fin tofin. Fob is purging himfelfe from this as well as from any of thofe Enormities mentioned and profeffed againft in the foregoing paffages of this Chapter : beedoth not only Iay,I have not lofted after my neighbours wife, nor wrong'dmy fervants, nor oppref- fed thepoore, nor put confidence in gold, nor worfhipped the Sun, he (I fay) doth not only fay, I have not committed thefe foule tranfgreffions, but I havenot put a fayre covering upon a- ny ofmy tranfgreffions ; thereby intimating that to have done fo, had been to commit a greater fin thenany ofthole which he had not committed. And fure!y neither our owne finfull hearts, nor
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