726 Chap.l4o, An Expofition capon the Book. o f Jo a; Verf. ; 3.' Debalenafcri- Thirdly,Others who interpret this garment, the skin, yet con- bitur quad ceive it fpoken, not of the skin of his whole body, but the skin vif uperi1óß.a- about his face, and which hangeth over his eyes, which no man is yampondere fohardy (unlefs he be fool- hardy) as toopen and take away, operiumar & Fourthly, Some take thefe words as a proverbial fpeech, who prominencia il. can take away a piece of his skin, or touch hisskin ? As we corn- unta ,nem q- manly fay of a proud and wrathful man, who dares touch him, or audet corium pull off fomuch as a fingle hair from his beard 8 illud,quodfa. ì (hall pitch upon the fecond interpretation, that by the gar- cies indumenti ment of Leviathan ismeant his skin, which is his natural gar- appelíatur at- ment. There are many remarkable things fpoken afterwards in flitábell á this Chapter, about the skin of Leviathan; Here 'cis called his vorandus. garment. Paraph. Whence note ; Ptrentialir lo- cutio ofvi- God bath given every creature fome kind of garment or detur,q. d.quis covering. aude: vet cuti The Whale hash his garment he could not abide the water cutmudettra. without ir. All trees andplants have agarment, the rind or bark; beret ut tie ha- theycould not abide the air without ir. Every bear( and bird bath mine fuperbo a arment the y could not abide either heator cold without it. dry iracundodi- > s ' eimur;nepilum Tis faid of man in the fate of innocency, that he was naked guidon barbee (Gen. 2. 18.) And the man and the woman were bothnaked, and auderei extra- were not afhamed : yet theywere not quite naked, they had a na- here. Bold. turai garment, though not an artificial one, their skin ; yea, they had a better natural garment than their skin, their innocency, and that was the reafon, why they were not afhamed. Since the Fall, mans natural garment is not enough tokeep him from either cold or (hame, he mull have an artificial garment over that ; nor is any artificial garment, how thick, or rich, or coffly, or fafhionable fo- ever, enough to keep him from {name, he muff have a fpiritual one ; he milli (as the Apoffle exhorts, Rom. 13. 54.) Pat on the Lord ,fefras Chrtfi ; he mull pat on the newman, which after God is created in righteonfnefsand trtae holinefr (Eph. 4. 24.) elfe he bath reafon to be a(hamed. All are naked, till they put on this garment, Chri(t and his Graces. And they that have pur on this garment, (hall be cloathed with the garment of joy and glory. Being cloathed thus, we (hall not be found naked,as the Apofiles word is (z Cor, 5.3.) The Lord bath bellowed a garment upon every
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