_Reason._ Because the sins themselves are the snares of the devill, _2 Timothy 2.last._ _Lamentations 1.14._ There are other reasons given of this thing in the Analysis. _Vse._ This may serve to admonish us, betimes to pray for deliverance from our sins, which then we shall obtaine, when we do flye unto Christ, who gives deliverance unto the Captives; _Luke 4.18._ Doctrine 7. _The extreamest punishment of sinners is deferred unto the last judgement of God._ _Use._ This may serve for instruction, that no man should please himselfe therein, that he suffers afflictions in this world, as if therefore he should escape free in the world to come, which is the miserable comfort of some men. * * * * * Verse 5. _And spared not the old world, but saved Noah, the eighth |person|, a Preacher of righteousnesse, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly._ The Analysis. The second and third example of Gods justice towards sinners are not barely propounded, as the first was, but are illustrated by different examples, or by examples of Gods mercy, which he shewed towards the godly, while he destroyed the wicked. The reason is, that both parts of the conclusion, which is set down, verse 9. might be fitly inferred; where the deliverance of the godly is joyned together with the destruction of the wicked. In the former of these examples is set downe, 1. The object of Gods justice, materially, _the old world_, which is more formally explained by the adjunct of impiety, whence it is called the _world of the ungodly_. 2. This justice is also illustrated by the instrument thereof, namely, _the bringing in of the flood upon the world of the ungodly_. The object of Gods mercy is made to be _Noah with his family_: who are described, 1. By their small number, wherein his family was contained, which is said to be _eight_. This _Peter_ shewes, _1 Epistle_ chapter 3. verse 20. 2. By the effect, that he was _a Preacher of righteousnesse_. For the office or duty is not here commended, but the act or exercise of this duty. For the duty was common to him with many more, but the exercise of it was proper unto himselfe. The Doctrines arising here-hence. Doctrine 1. _The multitude of those that sinne doth not hinder Gods justice from executing his judgements upon them for their sinnes._ This is gathered from this; _He spared not the whole world._ For as it was with dignity in the Angels, so it is also with the multitude now in the world.