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Lam_3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Ver. 40. Let us search and try our ways,] i.e., Make accurate inquiry into them; so shall we soon find ourselves to be a whole newly found world of wickedness. Search we therefore, and do it thoroughly. Many either search not at all (they cannot endure these domestic audits: it is death to them to reflect and recognise what they have done), or as though they desired not to find. They search as men do for their bad money; they know they have it, but they would gladly have it to pass for current among the rest. Heathens will rise up in judgment against such, for they prescribed and practised self-examination: Pythagoras once a day;
“ Non prius in dulcem declines lumina somnum,
Quam prius exactae reputaveris acta diei, ”& c.
Phocylides thrice a day, if Stobaeus {a} may be believed.
And turn again to the Lord.] Let self-examination end in reformation, else sin will be thereby but emboldened and strengthened, as idle vagrants and lawless subjects are, if questioned only, and not punished and restrained. Of turning again to the Lord; {See Trapp on "Zec_1:2"}
{a} Serm.