Chap. 34. _ Ao Expofition upon the Book, of Jo s. Verf.iS. rits, and live ; that is, &hall we not rather be fubje&to God then to.man? Father of fpirits is an Attribute or Title too high and honourable for any but God. One of the Ancients in his gracious breathing after God, brake out into this holy Paillon ; My foul (0.God) canoefrom thee, andmyheart is unquiet or ref lefr until it return to thee again ; God is our center, and our ref : He gather- eth to himfelt mans fpirit; and when he doth fo, what then? what's the iffue of it ? Elihu teils uswhat in the next verfe, Verf. i s. Allfléfh fha!l perifh together, and man¡hallturn again ro his duff. As if he had Paid; As loon as ever the fpirit is gathered, the flesh is confumed, or, as we render, perifheth. All flefh, may be taken in the largefc fence, not only for all men that live, but for all living creatures : Thus largely Mofes extendeth it, (Gen. 6. t.7.) Behold, faith theLord, Iwill Mug a floodof water to defry all flefh; that is, all the Beafis of the earth, and Fowls of the ayre; together with Mankinde, except .a fewof each in the Ark : fo (Pral. r 36. z5.) who giveth food t. allflefh, (that is, toman and beau) for his mercy enaureth for e- ver. Yet force underhand this firepart more narrowly, for all líefh except man; becaufe he addeth in the latter part ,of the verfe, andmanfhall return again to his dut : But I.conceive we are to take allflefhhere for all men, andonly fo- men, it being usual in Scripture to put the fame thing twice,under ditierent ex- preflioñs. So then All that is, every man, be hewho hewill, fhall perifh. Thus as-allflefh is reurained to man,fo it extendeth over all men, yea over all things of man(Ifa. 40. 6.) Allflefh is graft, andall rhegoodlinefs thereofas theflower of thefield ; that is, all men are periihing, and all that inan.hath, meerly asa man, is as fading and pertfhtng as himfelfis. Some take notice,that man was not called flefh till after his fall ; It's findbefore, whenGod fet him up inthat primitive pu- rity of his Creation., Man became alivingfoul: He was nOt fpo - ken of at fire asfiefh, but as a living foul, (Gen. 2..7.) but as loon as man had finned, hewas calledflefh , as ifhe had no foul.There may twoother reafons begivenwhy man iscalled fletfí, both fol- lowing from the,former. Pith, Becaufe man lince his fall cloth Gggg 2 moll 595
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