An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

2. The trust of an hypocrite is called a spiders web, because he ⟨p. 91⟩fetches and frames it (as it were) out of his own bowels: that whereunto he trusteth is wrought out of himself. That's the nature of the spider, she hath no extrinsical materials to build her house with; she doth not hew her stones out of any quarry, or fetch her timber from any forest (as we may allude) the materials which she hath she fetcheth out of her own bowels. The Bee makes an house, and fetcheth the materials from this and that flower: so the Bee makes a comb for a house: but the spider sucks no flowers. Thus it is with hypocrites, their trust and hope is as the spiders web, made out of their own substance; they eviscerate themselves, they fetch all out of themselves. The meaning is, all their trust is in their own duties, in their own strength, in their own stock, in their own gifts, upon these they build, these are their house. We find the Pharisees trust thus grounded, such was his house (Luk. 18.) I fast twice a week, I give alms, I pay all men their due. He was very exact in righteousness according to the Law, upon this, and out of this he makes his house; this is to make an house like a spider. Though it be our graces we trust upon, our trust will be a spiders web. The believer is well compared to a Bee, the Bee hath an house and honey, but the Bee fetcheth all from abroad, from herbs and flowers: Believers have their house to dwell in, and their honey to feed upon, but they such all from the promises of Christ; yea, they suck it from Christ himself, they rest not in the letter of the promises, but they go to Christ who is the matter promised, and the accomplisher of all the promises. Here they build their house, and hew out the pillars of it.

2. The trust of an hypocrite is called a spiders web, because he ⟨p. 91⟩fetches and frames it (as it were) out of his own bowels: that whereunto he trusteth is wrought out of himself. That's the nature of the spider, she hath no extrinsecall materials to build her house with; she doth not hew her stones out of any quarry, or fetch her timber from any forest (as we may allude) the materials which she hath she fetcheth out of her own bowels. The Bee makes an house, and fetcheth the materials from this and that flower: so the Bee makes a comb for a house: but the spider sucks no flowers. Thus it is with hypocrites, their trust and hope is as the spiders web, made out of their own substance; they eviscerate themselves, they fetch all out of themselves. The meaning is, all their trust is in their own duties, in their own strength, in their own stock, in their own gifts, upon these they build, these are their house. We finde the Pharisees trust thus grounded, such was his house (