54 6 Chap. to . An Expofition upon the $ookof J O B. nerf. r>t could not batter down that hedge, it was, cannon -proof. As the tiate, fo the body of Job was fenced : if we look upon the skclleton of a man, we fhall fee the proportion ofan arrour,brefit and back formed up with banes andfines.. rims/ Bones are for firength, and frnews for motion, bones being t1(%a d "b"e firmand fluff in themtèlvcs are moveable by the frnews. There afumirate are other parts of the body which concur to the makingup of this armour, grifiles, mufcics, ligaments, membranes, all which ferve for motion, fatining,anddefence,as well as bones and fnews but thefe being the principal and moll known are here expreffed for all the rest. our Bonesgive the body liability, t}raightnefs and form. They are qu as the carcafe of a Ship, whereto the reli ofthe parts arc fanned, a ,,,26%rc,G and by which they are futiained. They are as the potis,piliars, tiifpocr. beams and rafters of a houle, bywhole knittings and contigua- tions the whole building is both proportioned and supported. And though the bones are for number very many, and la their forms exceeding various, fore thick, tome thin, fore plaun,tome hollow, tome ofa greater, othersof a leffer bore, yet are they fo conneCed and fitted together by articulation or by coalition, by contiguity or continuity has the Anatomitls fpeak) that they ail appear as one bone, or pack of bones. Simms or nerves derive their pedigree from the brain, and are the organs by which the animal tpirits are conveyed, and flow into the whole body, and with them both fente and motion. Si- news have fo much of firength in them, that the farm,: word. is put to lignifie both flrengthand (news; and todo a thing firong-- ly and vigouroufly, is todo it (nervosè) lìnewoully, It is won- derful which. Naturalilis write of the conjugations and ufes of the tinews, to thofe labours I refer the fludious Reader for fur- ther.latisfation. I have given enough to thew, what this Text calls me to, That God bath indeed cloathed man with'skinand ,lefh, and fencedhim with bones anrlfrnews. Some have quarrelled with the wifdom and goodness of God, for turning.man altogether naked and unarmed into the world.. This Scripture is enough to confute the unreafonablenefs of that quarrel. Job thankfully. acknowledgeth,That he was both clotbed and armed, thong.h not in the fence of thefe complainers. It is moréhonourable for man to make himfclfartificial clothing and Arrnts, then to have had; none but natural ;. God .hath.given man rcafon
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