Chap. 14. An Expofitionupon the Booko fJo s,, Verf. q,.. 5;67 Thirdly, Whocanbringa clean thing out of an unclean ? May note thechange of the fame perfon from his moral uncleannefs into moral cleannefs, who I can make a perfon clean who was born unclean ? The Hebrew particle (Adios) rendred , out of, m origins bath a double ufe, fometimes it notes the Original of a thing, e muta,irA That which isOriginated is like its Original. Again k notes alfo nis note change and mutation, Who can bring a clean out of unclean ? That Is, Who can change unclean into clean ? Sefides the word whichwe render bring, lignifies tomake a change, Ifa. 5 r. iz. Who Tru dare art thouthat art afraiaof the Son of man, who fag be made as the efficereufur grafs ? TheHebrew is, who (hall be given, that is, changed as pater. thegrafs. Thuswe have a threefold interpretation of the words. The ,irft refpecting the extraftion of one perfon from another. All perfons are unclean , becaufe they come from an unclean root. A fecond referring to the actions of the fame perfon. That which isdone byman cannot but be unclean, becaufe man him- felf is uncleanwhoBoth it. A third refpeé ing the changeof the perfon himfelf fromwhat . he was. Who can make anunclean perfori clean ? thisis a work . too hard for any Creature, anor Angel< Man cannot by his own power make a natural man , much leffe a fpiritual man , he cannot give any man a beeing, much leffe a holy beeing. Firft, Obferve from the connection, Yob having defcribedmans life, Fewof dayes andfull oftroubles, like afhadow, and like aflower cut down and withered : He nowdefcendsto mans uncleanneffe, as if hewould leadus to the Spring-head, and raufe of all our forrows : This is the method anddependanc.e of Yobs difcourfe,, which teacheth us, ' That the lengthof our troubles, and fbortnefs of our lives, are coifedby the corruption and uncleannefsof our Natures. Are our lives troublefome ? Is the flean of our actions in_. tangled ? Sin hath done it. Is the threadof life cut off? Have webut a fewdayes ? Sin hath procured this. We are unclean, therefore we are dying, fading, withering. Inall, whether per fonal or publike troubles, we may anfwer our felveswith this, we have that we deferve, the root of our miferies is within us, we may thank our own evil difpofitiens that our condition is
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