Chap. 4o. AnExpofttionupon the Bookof j o B. Verf.9. 569 idolatrous Gentiles, Both not fay (as there ) They changed their glory, &c. for the true God was not the glory of the Gentiles in thole dayes , they owned him not as their only God ( having many Idol gods) nor did he own themashis people ; and there- fore the Apofile did not, nor could he in truth fay of the Gen- tiles, They changed their glory, &c. But thus he faith, They changed the glory of the incorruptible God, into an imagemade like to corruptibleman, and to birds,and four-footed beafts, and creeping things. The Gentiles did not change the incorruptible God, their glory into an image, but they changed the gloryof the in- corruptible God into an image, &c. And to that refpea the ido- latry of the Jews (a people knowing the true God, yea, and glo- rying in him) was worfe than the idolatry of the Gentiles, who knewhimnor, nor ever gloried in him, nor accounted him their glory. But to the point inhand, As that is Gods glory which ma- nifelts his glory, So in general, any thing which maketh man Chine forth com- mendably or honourably to others, or gives him a preherninence above manyothers (as neer relation to God fpecially Both) may be called his glory. Whatfoever i3 bell in us, or to us, is our glo- ry. The foul of man is hisglory, becaufe it is his bell part.. The body is apoor thing to the foul ; the body is but a (hell, the fool is the kernel; the body is but the (heath (as the Chalice calls ir, Deut.7. is.) the foul is the (word, though dually wetake more pains for the-body than for the foul, as if we prized it more.When yacob faid(Gen.49.6.)0myfoul,come thou not into their fec,et;unto their affembly, mine honour, be not thouunited. He meant (Come fay) the lame thing by his foul,and by his honour or glory,becaufe the foul is the moli glorious and honourable part in man, and that which men fhould be moli careful of. Thus likewife the tongue 40f man is called his glory (Pfal.57.8.) awakemyglory, that is, my tongue,The tongue being that organ or infirument where- by the wifdom andprudence of man is held forth, and he made glorious in the world, 'tis therefore calledhis glory. The tongue of man is alfo called his glory, becaufe with that he giveth glory to God by praifing him, and confetliog his name, together with his truth, unto falvation. And as glory is the befi of man, fo of any other creature (x Cor, a 5. 61.)There is onegloryof the Sun, andanother of the Moon,and another glory of the Stars for one Star Dddd
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