Chap, a o. An Expofition upanthe Book of J O E. Verf j g, be prepared for his cowing into the world, was poured out its milk,atad crudled as cheefe. Let not man be high minded, whole beginningwas fo low and homely. Learn fecondly, Our natural conception is fromGod. Nihi!(legenito- Men (in a t}ric1 fenfe -) arecalled, thefathers of ourlefh, and r,bus our feori Cod the father of cur f iritsjHeb.a 2.9.)Yet God hath the chieftitl: ribur nlfcitnr, to the father-hoodof our le(ia, as well as the foie title to the fa- I e.: nonoperem the-rhood ofour (pirits, Thou haft poured me tut as milk, and thou rut Peur. bat crudled me like chcere ; here is nomention of hisfather, noneof duis" his mother, but as if the Lord had brought all by an immediate power, he aferibes the whole aka to him.Thou haft pouredme out as milk, &c. We are alfó his offering, as the Apoftle tells the Athenians out oftheir ownPoets, 411s 1.. 28. Thirdly, This givescaution to all whom the Lord path called, or Tall call to the ftatc of marriage, to be holy in that eflate. Marriage is honourable (Heb. 13. q..) and the bedundefiled, but anhoremotgers and adulterers (led will judge ; no wonder if God hate a refpeétfull eye to the undefiled in that relation, and a re- vengefull eye upon thedefilersof it ; feeing as his own authority inflituted it, fo hi, own power as fo eminently in it. Our con- ception, our formation, our birth and production are all afcribcd to, yea affumed by God hitnfelf. Of which fecond aft the next verfegives us a noble and an elegant proof. Veda a. Thou haft cloatbedme with si',nann ,andfencedme tvitb bones andfinews. .7oh proceeds like a great Philofopler about the productionof Semen inarero man. For when by that former work. of nature, the matter is muliarit.prtuìa poured out and crudled. God by nature makes a further pro- Joñglobom,r grefs, and prepares for another work , the forming and fafhio coogulanrr, ruingof that unthapen lump into the parts and lineaments of an fig; ad eapren -, organical body. Some Naturalifts undertake to tell ús exaEtly QamJiguQm what is wrought in the firtf (even dayes, and what the next, when rdoneum, the brain, heart and liver are formed, and when the Vieth, the Gel* bones and Gtiews. The ancient and learned Phytitians have di- h1inguifhed this whole work ofGod in perfecting manki-de into Cal t. 7, de four periods. The firtl is, while the matter or principles out of fom.exdn&ino which man is made being mingled together, retain their own hrppocrxit. form. The fecond is,. vnien thofe principles are groff:d into a rude fiefhy mafTe. Thefe two periods job hath taught us long U u u before
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