The rational and most precious part of Lot was vexed with the unlawful deeds of the generation of Sodom, among whom he lived, 2 Pet. 2.7, 8. he had a horror and torment in his righteous Soul at the execrable villainies he saw committed by his neighbours, [Greek or Hebrew] afflicted under it, as under a grievous burden. It was a rack to him, as the other word, v. 8. [Greek or Hebrew] signifies. The meekest man upon Earth, with grief and indignation breaks the Tables of the Law, when he saw the holiness of it broken by the Israelites, and expresseth more his regret for that, than his honour for the material Stones, wherein God had with his own finger engraven the Orders of his will. He is more desirous to destroy the Idol, than preserve the Tables: Such an indignation against their sin could not well be without grief for it. David, a man of the greatest goodness upon Record, had a Deluge of tears, because ⟨p. 67⟩they kept not God's Law, Psal. 119.136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy Law. Besides, his grief, which was not a small one, horror, seized upon him upon the same account, Psal. 119.53. like a storm that tossed him to and fro. How doth poor Isaiah bewail himself, and the People among whom he lived, as men of polluted lips? Isa. 6.5. Perhaps such as could hardly speak a word without an Oath, or by hypocritical lip-service, mocked God in the very Temple.
The rational and most precious part of Lot was vexed with the unlawful deeds of the generation of Sodom, among whom he lived, 2 Pet. 2.7, 8. he had a horrour and torment in his righteous Soul at the execrable villanies he saw committed by his neighbours, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 afflicted under it, as under a grievous burden. It was a rack to him, as the other word, v. 8. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies. The meekest man upon Earth, with grief and indignation breaks the Tables of the Law, when he saw the holiness of it broken by the Israelites, and expresseth more his regret for that, than his honour for the material Stones, wherein God had with his own finger engraven the Orders of his will. He is more desirous to destroy the Idol, than preserve the Tables: Such an indignation against their sin could not well be without grief for it. David, a man of the greatest goodness upon Record, had a Deluge of tears, because ⟨p. 67⟩they kept not God's Law, Psal. 119.136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy Law. Besides, his grief, which was not a small one, horrour, seiz'd upon him upon the same account, Psal. 119.53. like a storm that tost him to and fro. How doth poor Isaiah bewail himself, and the People among whom he lived, as men of polluted lips? Isa. 6.5. Perhaps such as could hardly speak a word without an Oath, or by hypocritical lip-service, mocked God in the very Temple.
