Chap. 40. . AnExpafztion upon theBosk. cf J o a. Verf Io. light,As all our fpiritual array, deckings and ornaments,arc put on usby God (Ez.ek, 16.1o, I I.)/ cloathed thee with broidered work, Icovered thee with (ilk, l decked thee alfo with ornaments, I put a jewel on thy forehead, etc. So all civil ornaments . are put orr man by God. 1 girded thee (laid God of Cyrus, Ifa. 45.5 ) though thou haft not known me ; that is, I gave thee all thy power and greatnefs, thyhonour anddignity, though thou tookefhno no- tice of mein doing it,nor that I did ir.Thus it is Paid of Solomon(r Chron. a9.25. )TbeLordmagnified Solomon exceedingly in thefight of all Ifrael,and beflowit' upon himfnch royal had not been on any king before him in ifrael. And thus fpake Daniel to Bel- Jhaz,z,ar, concerning his father Nebucbadnezar (Dan.5.19.)And for the majeftl that be (that is, God ) gave bino, all Nations, l'co ple and Languages, trembledand feared before him. All the ma- ray and excellency, all the gloryand beauty of the greatenMo- narchs, is derived fromGod_ Fourthly, Obferve Themajeffy and excellency, the glory and beauty of man,.oe nothing toGods. Chrifl faith (Mat. 6. 29.) Solomon in all his glorywas not arrayed like one of thefe. Solomon was a King in thegreatefi ma- jefiy and excellency, glory and beauty of any that ever was in the. world ; yet faithChrifi, he was not decked like one of thefe Lillies :then how far fhort did his glory fall of theglory of God l how doth all the glory of the world vanifh anddifappear at the ap- pearanceof the gloryofGod,even as the lufire of the moon & ftars doth atthe rilingof the thrice illuarious Sun ! And as mans glory is nothing to Gods, while it lafis or endures,fo it is nothing to his in the lafiingnefs and duration of it. Dominion andmajefy arc Gods, and (hallbe afcribed to God everlaffingly, It is laid of Aba- fàertts (Eftber 1.4. ) that he (hewed the riches of his glorious kingdom, and the honour of his excellent Majefly manydays, . even a hundred and fourfcoredays ; but theLord fhewethhis ex- cellent Majefly for ever and ever, for it abides for ever : and if fo, what is the majefiy of man compared with the Lords (lfa. 40'. 6.) all flefh is grafs, and the goodlinefs of it, at the flower of the field. The majeflyand excellency,the glory and beauty of man, is but the goodlinefs of fejh, or the befi of a flefhly, earth- ly 575
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