Chap, .. , AnExpofitionupon theBookofJ OB. 'iterf. 5. -595 mong the people. To be cloathed with humility,to be cloathed with the Spirtt,to be cloathed withChrifl,are phrafès ofthe fame importance. So on the other=hand tobe cloathed with pride,with fhame, with difhonour, Let mixe enemies ( faith David ) be cloathed withfhame, Pfal. 109.29. Let him be cloathedwith dif honour, Pfal. 35.26. that is,let them be afhamed and difhonour'd all over, or exceedingly athamed or difhonoured. And fo a great defolation is called a cloathing with defolation, Ezekiel 7. 27. That whichJtripps a man naked is in this fence called his eolatbing, cloathed with defolation. Thus we are to underhand Job, when he faith, That his flefh n'ascloatbedaith wormes his meaning is, he, had many wormer crawling upon his flcih, or lying within his fleth, and fo were as a lining to his upper garment of nature.Thefe wormes fpread them- felves all over him, as a filthy and loathfome garment covering his whole body. And betides this figure,job fpake properly, while he was thus full of fores and botches, and boy les,to fay,he was cloathed with wormes ; wormes are proper to fores many fores, breed wormes., and wormes are adifeafe in the fíeth,as well as within the bowels, and fuchdifeafes are accounted the fouleft andElthieft difeafes of all other: Such wasfobs, his Cores and boilescorrupted and bred wormes, whichmade him an abhorring to himlelf. Putrefae3ien is thefoyleout ofwhichworms grow. Rotten Beth breeds wormes, and a rotten confeience breeds a worm, Ifa. 66.24. 7heir worm' Jhal1 not die;why doth the holyGhat} fayof thole men who were never wafhed nor healed oftheir fin-fores of their foul-ficknef fes and pollutions, that when they die, they have a worme, that dieth not. It is an allufion to this, bccaufe, as a corrupt body, or corrupt putrid Beth, breeds noifome wormes, fo a corrupt confci- ence, a foule full of fllthinets and uncleannefs, which was never wathed or healed in the fountain of the blond ofChriti, this foul., thisconfcie nce breeds wormes,even that gnawing worme,which fhall live with it, feed upon it, and cloath it for ever. Both the natural and the fpiritual worme, arife from rottennefs, and derive their pedigree from fores,Geknef 'es, and putrífaf ion. Andclods ofduff. Warmes and clods of did. Here are firange materials, source ftuffor Jobs cloathing, clodsof duff. Some conceive that yob G g g g fact
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