44 Chap. r 3." AnExpofition upon the Bock of Jos Verf. ra. which may give force light to this(i Cor. 3, i 2.) where he com - pares found dóé}rine togold, filver, precious ffones, but cor- rupt do&trine, to wood, hay,Hubble. Thirdly, We tranflate. Tour bodies, fo the word figmifies by a Trope, becaufe the body ofmanElands upright, and is lifted up.: Man goeth not groveling upon or toward theground, as a beaft goeth, but he hathno ereíl figure and form, thereforehis body Et corpora ve- is called Gab, that is, .lifted, or raifed up. Others render it by a ftra corpor.bns part ofthe body, theback,,or the neck: So the Vulgar, Tour necks uteoi,1. eís. whichare lofted up, (hall be brought down to theclay. But I rather Redigencur in keep to our rendring of theword, by the whole body, then by boon cervices apart or member of it; As ifJob had faid, Tour bodies, which in vejiri. Vulg. regardof thefigure and frame ofthem are liftedup, as if they did ,corn the earth, are yet but pieces of earth and clods of clay you trample upon.earth andclay,as things belowyou, yet youare no better than the things you trample upon, evenearth and clay : and to them thefe bodies o fyours mufffhortly be reduced and refolved into as their firffprinciple., though now you look big upon me, and carry it high. Hence'Obferve, irít, Thebody ofman, bowfirong,how beautifulfoever,isbut a piece of earth and clay. 1 Firft, It is clay, in regard of the bafenefs and meannefs of it ; earth is the meaneft of the elements, the loweft and worft of all, fo is the bodythe meaneft part of man, Secondly; It is clay, in regard of the brittlenefs of it, it breaks quickly like a Potters veffel. But it may be faid, why doth ,hod fpeak thus to his friends ? Why dothhe tellthem thattheir bodies are bodies ofclay? Did not t hey know that before ? Need any man be told that his body is formed out of the earth, and that it turneth to the earth again ? Efpecially, needed thefe friends of job, who weremen of fuch knowledge and wifdom, yea, of holinels too, needed they to be taught that their bodies werebodies ofclay ? I anfwer, Wemay know many things which we are not affe.i Eked with. There is a two-fold knowledge of things : There is a knowing of things in the notion, or a fpeculative knowledge, and there is a knowing of things in the application, or a praQi- cal knowledgeofthem: Doubtlefs they knew this fpeculatively, butJob thought they did not knot it practically. They would never
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