596 Chap. 7. AnExpofition upon theBook of) p B, Vert 5. fate in the duff, and fo the dull gathered about him as a garment; others,that thefeclods ofdull, were the fcrapings of his fores, for the word fignifies the filings ofany metal, or the fcrapings ofan unclean thing. It is Paid expreffely in the fecond Chapter, that he tooka pot- (heard to(crape himfelf thole clods of filthy duff, or fcales fcrap'd from his putrifying foxes ; thefe, with the crawling wormes bred in them, cover'd his whole body like a garment,and therefore he cotnplaines, Iam clothed with worms and clods o duff. f You fee what his garment was, fee now (to carry en thealln.. lion ) his skin,upon which thisgarment was put ? My skin (faith he) is broken, andbecome loathfóme. The skin is the immediate garment of the flab, his ficknefs had worne out his skin, he had many holes and rents in that garment, which needed mending; and it was all over fo filthy, that it needed waffling. MyfeJb broken, and become loathfom. Sores break the skin, and defile the skin; Jobs skin was fo broken and chapt,fo defiled and filthy., that he was loa thfome to all beholders, and to himfelf. This is thepiture ofjob;. A few daies before, you might pit ur'd or drawn him thus, jobcloatbed with filk g have hirgarment fit withprecious oriental /tones, his skin fmooth rand beautiful,hu face cheerful andmanly, his eye quick, and peircing, Iiut nowJob is cloathedwith worms andclods of duff, his sk in is broken andbecome loathfome. We may hence learn, what,our own bodies are.. The Apoflle ( Phil. 3,. ai.) calls the body, a.vilebody..; not that thework of God was vile : The work ofGod was noble and honourable in . all he wrought, efpecially in that matter-peeceofit, the fabrique ofmans body ; but as- the body is come out of the hands of fin, fo it isa vilebody; that is, it isa body fubjea to corruption, and will quickly corrupt, be vile and loathfome, r Cor. t 5. 53. This sorruptible muff put on incorruption. The body of man is but one remove from worms and corruption, Chap. 17. 4.1 have id to corruption, thou art my Father, and to the worme, thou art my mother. We thall quickly bear the image of our parents, worms and corruption. Then be not proud of your bodies,norofyour beauties; They, who arc now the faireft and goodliefl to look upon, may quickly have a broken and a loathfome skin ; A difeafe, one fit of icknefs. willlpoile 411 thy beauty,deface and blecnáth thy excellent feature,. and:
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