Chap. 7.. An Expofrtion upontheBookofJ O B. VerC. 7. 6o3 well Lord,put mycondition into the ballance,obfervewhat aweak creature I am,how thort my life is:thereore deal withme,as with a weak fhort-lived creature;Thou needefi not lay any great firers upon me,thou needetl not trouble thyElfmuch to makean end of me, my life is but wind, 'tis but a puff, which quickly paflès away: v remember that my life is wind. This is a proverbial fpeech venuu, like that before, ofa weaversfhuttle. The word translated wind E!egart pro fignifics the boly Ghojt, the third Perton in the bleffed Trinity : As verbialc< aitb a Spirit in general. And becauf the wind is ofa fpiritual na- ture, invifible ,fwift,powerful,thereforeit is applied to that ac,rial or elementary fpirit; And the operation of the holy Gho(t,is fha- dowed by wind or breath, Ghriff breathedupon his dijsiples, fry ing, receive the holy Ghoft, yam20. 22. and the holy Ghoft came as a mighty rufhing wind, Ad's 2. 2. When job faith, remember that my life is wind, he meanest my Safi "1m., life is like the wind ;It is a fimilitude, not an affertion. The life Yargltre. of man is like the wind in two things ; Firti, the wind patleth, away fpeedily, fo dothmans life : Secondly, the wind when it is pat},returns no more;-as you cannot flop the wind,or change its courfe,So all the power in the world,is not powerful enough to rep call or divert the wind; which way the wind goes it will goe,and when it goes 'tis gone, Pf. 74.34..He remembred that they were beet fiefh,windthatpafjeth away : inthis fence Jobcaileth his life a wind, r it paffeth away, and fhail not return, by any law or conttitution Flare. 77144 a mvt Spiri of nature, or by any efficacy ofnatural caufes: trsr o ftirando; Yet here obferve, job faith not, Hi/ fast was a wind, but bit life Animuru quaff was a wind. Somehave philofopbiz'd the foul into a wind, a blatt ays,ur quidaae or a breath; and tell us, that.it goes,as the foul ofabeaft,that life di9+srney and the foul are but the fame thing;when the fifes gone out ofthe mane. rec, p body, the foule'sgone from its beingcThey acknowledg a rettó- fpiGrarianro efeu ring of it again with thebody at the refurref ion,but deny it any fpirúuperil exiftence when feparate from the body. How dithonourable this ducirur acci- is to the noble conftitution ofman, and how ditl'onant to Scr ip- quad vítono- ture, is proved in mentioning it; we acknowiedg, that life ethiehr/lra refr.rarie- is the union ofCoule and body, is a wind and paffeth away ; In all 'neindigeat; the learned Ianguages, Hebrew,Greek, Latine, the * word which feccundoquad (signifies fpirit or life, hath its original, from refpirïng ; and when fbru videarur we fay, my windwas gone, or my wind was almott beaten out el vino trey body, our meanie ism Life was almott gone. In the rnprimae" r my origine s4 a. H h h h creation rid.
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