494 Chap. io. Eln Expofition upon tae soot of j O B. Vert. S° all, of this, that in this man is nothing, Knowye, that the Lord he Pfal ro"). 3. isGod,it is he that bathmade us,andnit we our Jrlves. There may be a great deal of grace aaed in acknowledging God to be the au- thor of Nature: yet I conceive the Pfalinilt leaks there rather of Gods making us in grace then h nature. Secondly,Obterve,3ob recounting what God had done for him, brings in, 7 by hands have made me andfajhirnedme, then, Our maJ ozg andna:Ural con(itut :on are to be reckoned amongfi the great benefits receivedfrom God. Pfal. 139.14.. l stsi / praife thee, for lam fearfully and ivendeifu:':y made. The making of a man is a wonder : though the trceinency of it makes the wonder little obferved, yet the wonder is not (in it fclf) the lets. David, who had ferious and holy thoughts about natural things, confeffeth, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. A Heathen had three reafons for which he ufed efpecially to thank God. One of them was this, becaufe he had made hint a man. If men, who have but the light of nature can fee fo much of God in raature,How much ofGod fhould we fee in naturë,who have the light of grace to fee it by ! Thirdly, From the words put together, Thine hands have made gate and f jhioned nie together roundab,rut, Oa rave, The whole f Jhionand fabrick of man is fromGod. fromwhich general take thcfe confedaries. See more oî I irfi, Then do not undervalue the body, it is the work ofGod, this point be- He bath f rfhioned it round about. We always look upon and va- fore at the lue our bodies too much, when we are proud of them ; but we third verfeof can never look upon or value our bodies too much, while we arc this Chapter. thankful for thern; and that we may be fo, we ought to view Vail. 443. every roomof this houle of clay, from Rory to fiory, from the garret to the cellar, from the crown of the head to the f>le of the foot, that we teeing the wonderful works of God, may have our hearts enlarged in his praifes. Some have put ignoble titles upon the body of roan, calling it a prifon, or a fhacklc. The body is not a prifon, it is a palace; it is not a (hackle, it is an organ,a fit inflrument for the foul to ufe and at} by. If at any time the bo- dy be unnfcful to the foul, that proceeds from finful corruption, not from its natural conilitution. awua zes But the Apollle (Phil. 3. 21.) calleth our body, a vile body,or " ,eás the body of our vilenee. Mans body is not vile, as God made ñ144r, it (fo it is a tiatelYfirudure) but as fin bath Made it. Thé Apoille
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