3.5o Chap. 3 3. An Exßoftion upon the Book, of J o B, Verf. 21. There two are ahvayes contending and combating with one ano- ther in all thole whomChriil hathconquered to hímfelfe. Happy are they that finde their flesh, in this ienfe, confuming away ; and 'Lis that which every man is fiudying ( who knows what godlinefle meanes) the consumption of this flesh, even the mortification of his lulls, of pride and earthlinefs, ofwrath, envie,and unbeliefe. Secondly, flesh by a figure is put for the Wholenaturali body, conllling of many parts dillimilar to flefh. Thus the Pfalmifl complained in prayer, that, the Lord had given the flefh ofhis Saints, to thebe4fis ofthe earth (Pfal. 79. z.) that is, he had expofed their bodies, through the rage and crueltyof their ene- mies, to the teeth and bowells ofravage and ravenous beatls. Thirdly, {Jell, is alloput for the whole man confifling both of foul and body. (Gen, 6.1 2,1 3 .) The Lordfaw that allflefh had corrupted their wayes. That is, all men ( who are madeup of a bodyand foul) had corrupted their wayes by letting loofe and a ltng their finfull corruptions. Fourthly, flefh is fometimes putfor that which is befl in man, his greatefi r,aturall perfe lions, whatfoever inhim is lefie then grace,whatfoever is highefl inhim,below the fpirit,is called íleih in Scripture. When Peter ( c 2wath. 16. 17.) had made that blefled confeflion which is the rock uponwhich the Church is built ( thou art (,'hrifl the Son of the living God) prefently Chrill tells him fief/2 and blood loath not revealed this unto thee, that is, the higheff, and the moll perfe& piece ofnature bathnot taught thee this leflbn ; the Fvangelifl faith of all true beleevers ( who have received this power (or priviledge) tobecome the foes of God) they areborne not ofblood, nor of thewill oftheflefh ( Joh. 1.13.) that is, the heft of the creature, contributes no- thing to the bringing forth ofnewcreatures,the fops of God. Fifthly, flefh by a figure is put for all that in religion, or in the worfhipof God, which is outward, or open to the eye ; whatfoe- ver comes under any humane obfervation,is but the flefh of Reli, gion,or the flefh of worship. In this fence the Apoflle puts the queflion (Rom. 4. r .) what fhall wefay then, that Abrahamoar father,as pertaining to theflefh,hathfound?What he means by the flefh, he tells us in the next words, he wat not juflified bywork, that ìg, not by anything that did appeare, not by any thingdone tohim or done byhim. He was not luflified by Circumcifion, or by
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