55 Verf. 27, an Erpofxtion ut ß lan the Book o f J o B. Chap 37 I have deg a about higher and greater tear will now put a queenon to thee which is mote familiar, Caro thou tell mehow thygarments arewarm ? Surely if thuu arc not ¡bit; to give me a clear reafon about that, how arc thou able to enter rmo the more referved fecrets of God ? cell me, it thou catlt, Host thy Garments are warm ? The word which we tranflate garments, hath a very confider- Perftd a f_ able fgnificancy in ir, coming from a root rcndied deceit, fa1C- sas,mendacium, hood, and a lie. The garments which we wear a;:e both a cegu- itemvefiis,fer-, ment or covering ofour nakednefs, and a teerimonyof our per- tequod veil& fidtoufnefs and falienefs with the great God. - Before man finned mentumfir pri- he wore no garments, nor had he need towear áuy, innocency was mihominireon- his cloathing nor was the natural man ever fo gto;iottfly adorned* Ueóper- deckt and drat as when he had no ga ments betides his innocen- dtæ tezucren rum l tefli- cy. When man prevaricated and dealt falfly with God, whenhe ,noniu,o. Brix. finned and broke the commandment (his nakednefs appearing and his ihanme) he thengot a Pimple còvering, fuch ashe could make for himfelf of fig-leaves, till God provided him a coveting of skins. Garments began with our fin, till then (faith c ores, gen, 2.) the man and the woman were both naked,arsd werenot afhamed; but when once man had finned, then flume came into the world, and then bothGod and Nature provided garments to cover his (hame, All this thewordimporrs, that we, through fin, having loft our natural garments, our robe of created innocency and in- tegrity, we are conffrainedby fame to take up there artificial garments er coverings to hideour nakednefs.It isnot unprofitable for us to remember,that the Spirit of God in the Orginal language InatePt á1 bath expreffed our garments by fuch a word,as leads us to the ori- dur flit; ¡rag; ginal of them, our dealing fairly with Godand finning againfl him. Chaminumen, `)oft thou know hew thy garments v?1a calore,vel anigredinefa Yewarm ? uvi N-gJe The word which fignifieth to hear, or make warm ( I note ut videtttr ins t, tumine, cum that by the wayalfa) was the name ofone of the Eons of Noah; quaChame he had three, calledSem, Ham, and 3apheth. Ham or Cham was contingit that fon who fan, his fathers nakednefs, and told his two brethren ,4phrica `nrnro' without not grtevtngl but deridin©1 which brought acurie u diedæflular. on him. ThisChain had his name from heat and thatportionand -rut. Bochart. ; part
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