Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Ver. 14. The month of a strange woman.] Diabolus capite blanditur, ventre oblectat, cauda ligat, saith Rupertus. These she sinners, as their gallants call them, are most dangerous. See Trapp on " Pro 2:16 " See Trapp on " Pro 5:3 " Solomon had the woeful experience of it; Ecc 7:26 and Samson, Jdg 16:18-21 who

“Lenam non potuit, potuit superare lesenam,

Quem fera non potuit vincere, vicit hera.”

How did David muddy himself in this deep pit, and there might have stuck in the mire, had not God drawn him out by a merciful violence, and purged him with hyssop from that abhorred filth? Psa 51:7

He that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.] As the Jesuits, those odious Connubisanctifugae Commeretricitegae, too often do; though they boast that they can talk and dally with the fairest women without danger, and the people must believe no otherwise, but that when they are kissing a woman, they are giving her good counsel. David George, that execrable heretic, was so far from accounting adulteries, fornications, incests, &c., for being any sins, that he did recommend them to his most perfect scholars as acts of grace and mortification; and was confident that the whole world would submit to his doctrine. a Peccatum peccatum trahit, as the Hebrew proverb hath it. One sin draws on another, and the latter is oft a punishment of the former; God, by a peculiar kind of revenge, delivering up such to a reprobate sense, or a mind disallowed or abhorred of God, as the apostle's word b Rom 1:28 signifies.

a Hist. David. Georgii.

b εις νουν αδοκιμον .