VB R S.2·· An Expojition, 'WithNotn timt:s. There is fomewhzt a like expreffion wit a this, Prov. r3·4· The Soul of the Jluggara dejireth, and hath nothing: Bur there the word fpeaketh ot empty Wi[bes, and laz.y velleities, here of paf– jionate de(ires.; there ofthe Soul oftheJluggard, here of the Sottl ofthe covetom. Ye ~ill,] Calvin, Bez.a, Cajetan, Erafmm, andothers, read ~9ov~1n, ye envy, though mofi Greek Copies read as we do,<(lovsvs7€, y e kjll: The or her reading was the rather embraced, bccaufe the charge feemed harih to fay, ye kJll,when in the received Expo!irion the Wars here mentioned were only private contentions and Law– fuirs: But we cleared it before, That Wars is here taken properly, and therefore are not urged ·With this inconvenience, and need not undedhnd it as Oecttmmim cloth of fpirirual killing, as if the fence were, y e,k..illyour ow;~ Souls; or of interpretarive murther, men– tioned I Joh. 3. 1 5. but may expotmd it in the ufual and received import of .the word, covetoufnefs going as high as murther, as 1 ]( ii11g. 2 I. I, 2 . and ~rov. I. 1 9· Every rme that i5 greedy ofgain tak!th P!way the life of the owners thereof. In thofe publ1que Tumulrs, occaGoned by their r:_1pine and avarice, many were flain. Ar~d de .fire to have,] ~ (11i-.'i:7~, ye emulate,or are given to envy: ·The word is fometimes t:aken in a good fence , I (or.14. 2. For-af– much .u ye are emu/am of Jpiritual gifts; the word is (ni-.wlcu • There is agood emulation,whe~>Jwe f.l:rive to imitate them fhar excel , in virtue,or to go beyone\ them; but there is alfo a carnal emulation, wh1ch chidiyrefpedeth outward enjoymems>& !'lotetha grief that any fhould enjoy any outward excellency equai with ns, or beyond us,' and ajfronrr covetofts or ambitious dejire of appropriating that excellency to o~lr felves: In 'the firfi there is malice, in the fecond covrtoufnefJ; we take ic chiefly for the .latter aCl of emulation, and therefore rendtr it,ye dejire to have.· u Novis frmper And cannot ebttJin: J ~ J'Jv(J,c&s tm7uxf:v, the word is emphati– t~ptd;t~tlbJP} cal,.ye cannot arrive to happinefs; that is, either~~ their happinefs 0 ·'"aphatzb, nun whom ye thus envY'or emulate, or cl!e to the happme!s you fancy; quz a ramtu, r; b . · l ,..J (: • d. 1r. · r.. · h fed dJ.Uict_ r:eta · ~arnal do11:~s. cmg ert 1er 'u t appo_mre 1 ore 1~ mcrea:mg Wit en., mu~;znfPzczrmt-l Joymenc; ns ad!ftcmper rh:.H wtll not be fat1sfied : fhe lang~age · non in zd q11od oflu!t isGive, give; •cis an appetite without bound or mea(ure: tft' fta ~uud if we had one world, yet we are not happy, we would covet anoappetztlt1" mtm· · l d r.. • lf' h · · fill d · E · ti. Semca.li. 3 , ther; earna CLIre IS a gu r at IS neyer e up: u n;o)'1n.ents de beNtfcar. 3• feem
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