154 Chap. q.. Zlín Expofition upon the Booktf 3 0 B. Verf19, , againft you ; I will come againft them without noise, they £hall perish with as little clamour as a garment doth,that is eaten--with moths. And thus the life of man is ordinarily conformed (as it were) by a moth ; 6ckneffes and dileafes enter fecretly, into his houle of clay,they lye in the frame and between the rafters of this houfe,fucking up the fpirits,and walling the flrength,fpending the heat,and drinking up the natural moiflure ofthe body ; we know not how we con fume,but we con fume we know not how we de- cline, but we decline ; we die, we know not how, but we die Is it not then as with a moth, creeping upon us, yea feeding upon us without noise ? Again, Take it by way of fimilitude, not as before at-lively or inlfrumentably, they are crushed ashy a moth, or as a moth crushes; but paffively or fubjetïively ; They are crufhed ai' a moth, that is, they are cruflted as a moth is crushed, alluding to the eafnefs of rufbing a moth ; Amoth is dull as Coon as you crush it, the (calf touch kills it ; Man in his houfe of clay is fo w-eak, that if God dobut touch him, he dies and falls to deft ; the Lord needs cot brings his great Artillery, and make batteries againf the body of man . the body of man is no fuch strong Fort or Bulwarke to Land out a long liege, or endure much aflaulting and oppolition; he is crulbed as a moth between your fingers ; Hence Davidmolt humbly deprecates the ftroake of God which he fawcoming, . or feltas come; becaufe he was notable to bear it, Pfal. 39, ao. Remove thy stroak away fromme, I am confirmed by the bl.m of thine hand,f,Lord if thou ftrike me thus I £hail quickly confume) And leafi you thould think that Davids Help (hebeing a King) was tender and delicate, and fo lets able to bear any hardthip, therefore in the following words, he puts thecafe in general con- cerning man or mankind, Take the man whofe strength is as the ffrength of fones, andhís flesh as brats ; yet this man breaksand vanishes under the hand of God, fo he affirms, ver. a r. under this paslive confideration\of a meth, When thou with rebukes doff eor.. reel manfor iniquity, thou makeft his beauty to confumeaway like a moth ( And then clofes with that common axiome of mans mortality) feorely every man is vanity; Selah. Further, Man may well be faid to be crufhed or die even as a moth;for as the garment breeds the moth, and then the moth cates the garment; fo (betides that power of God, or the out- ward ftroak of his hand) of which David fpake) mans own diftcm-
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