t bap. i o. AnExpofttion upon the Leo ;k tf J O B. will remember it,if any of his fervants are reproached,much more when himfelf is. I Fourthly, The Saints remember Godof their own frailty,and that two -fold. Firft, Natural. Secondly, Spiritual. Remember bow port my time is, wherefore haft thou made all men invain ? PfA. 89.47. Man is a frail fhort-liv'd creature, and it is forne comfort to him,that God knows he isfo. That which Job puts the Lord in remembrance of, is his natural frailty ; fome underfland it alfa of his fpiritual, Remember, I befetch thee, That thou haft made me as the clay. én snradr¡ai The LXX reads it,Thou haft made me clay.The word fignifies cc- 77utanssept tient or morter,which are mixt of earth and water. Thou hat} ''" made me as tempered clay. When the original of man is defcrib- propri!ftgni; cd, it is Paid, The Lordformedman duff out of the ground, or, of cat rementust, the duff of the ground,Gen.2.7. here Job faith, Thou haft made me as vet terra, s- the clay,or,Thou haft made me of the clay,the fenfe is near the fame, et whetht r we take clay for the matter out ofwhichman was made, or for the fimilitude according to which man was made.jab fpeaks to ariam of himfelf with refped tocreation : for,accordiag to the ordina- revora,ut meé ry courfe of generation, man is not made of clay. The firtt lutopimtm,i.e man was made ofclay,and of him all men are. We derive our Priam brad- pedigree from the dirt, and are a kin to clay. Job might fay, Qteri f rmorti and Lbmay any man, Thon haft made me of the clay. However tuli mace; Job was, and man now is made as the clay; that is, frail, brittle bier; and weak. We are cornpofed of materials, which will quickly crack and break. When the holy Ghofi would dcfcribe how eatily Chrifl can (batter to pieces all the oppofites of his King. dom, it is raid, He (hall dafh them in pieces like aposter: veffel A potters veffel will not bear blows, efpecially not the blows of fuch an infiniment, as is there fpokenof, an Iron rod : He fball break themwith a rodoflron(Pfal. 2r-9.1wemay break a potters veffel with a little wand, or a weak reed, how thenMould it en- dure theweight and hardnefs ofan Iron rod ? The Spirit of God feems todelight in this allul©n, and therefore takes it up often, Read, Ifa. 45.9. Ifa.64.S. Rom. 9. 21. We have theBate ofthe Jews, defcribed under this notion (Jer. IS. 4.) The Lord bids Jeremy go down to the Potters honk, he obeys, and found the potter working a work on the wheel, And.theVeffelthat be made ofclay, rear marredin ¡be bandef the potter,fe be made it again awl- ._ Verf. 9. 5o3
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