Ghap,iq. An Expofition upon the Book, of O 13. VerG7, 465 The fame word is ufed ( Gen. 6. 5.) The thoughts of the imaginations of mans heart ( that is, the figments or features create in ea of things which zre formed up there) are evil, and only evil WI, umbra continually : We put,All my thoughts, in the Margin of our petunia Mali} Tranflation : As if he had Paid. My mind is fo enfeebledthat I membra, àlii canfcarce think orframe any folid notion; mymind isfounfet- cogiaationes tied that I know not how to makeup my thoughts, or bring them volunt.Rab. to a rational iffue about any poynt. Sorrowweakens the intel- Let'l 'calve part,as well as the fenfitive:As if hehad faid,My mind lud quadrat in which heretofore was apt to conceive, and to bring., forth illanmuia qut the exatloJl- Ideas andplatformes oftruth ; I whocoulcjk ape and exrernafigura- faJhion excellent meditations,am now fo weak loeaded,that I can aut interna co. fcarce put two thoughts together, and all 1 do is but a Jhadow gitatiane eflî; to what 1 havebeen able to do. ; mukilegunt This is afair fenfe, yet confidering the context, I rather cogirationes underftand it ofthe membersof his body, which were fo de- Pbantafrar. cayed andpoor,that he looked like a Skeleton, or ( as we PagnReg, fay offuch)an Anatomy,nothing being left but skin and bone vatabl. nothing but a pack of bones; fo that he was rather the [ha- dowand appearance of a man, then a man. Hence obferve. The forrows ofthe mind break the body, as well as the mind. This effect offorrowhath.been met with in other places, and particularly (Chap 16. 16.) I (hall only add, that al- though godly forrow (as was-there (hewed) may work deeply to the expenceof bodily ftrength, yet there is a very gracious promife (Ifa. 58. t r.) that God will make the bones offuchfat, that is, fill them with marrow, which is the ftrength of the whole outward man. And they whoare weakned by the continual exercifesofgodly forrow, here, are in preparation to an eftate, where they (hall forrow no more:There will,be no dimrne eyes in heaven,nor members like:a fhtdow: Our vilë.body (hall be fafhioned like unto his glo- rious body,and all tears and mourning (hall flee away. Per- fed happinefs is inconfillent -with a blubbered eye. And though in Heaven a Saint may be called Adam (becaufe his body, for the fub(iance ofit, (hall be the fame as it was here on earth, though extreamly refined and fublimated, yea, fpiritttalliz'dt yet earth (till, now I fay, though a Saint in 0oo Heal
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