Chap 19 . .4n Expofition upon the Book of J O B. '. Verf.9. 199 off, even as the skinof a beaft is flaine off, he bath left me not onely without cloathes, but without a skin. When aman hath all taken from him to his skin, thenwe may fay his skin is to k?u off too. And that's the meaning oldie Prophet Micah, when he faith, They flay their Skin from cffthem. Not that they did formally exercife that aft of inhumanitie to flay off the skin. He that fleepes ( as we fay ) in a whole skin, may yet n: this fence have his skin flayed off. A man is then Said to have his skin flayed off, when he. is !tripped to his skin, and ail is ta- ken offfrom him. Cloathes and other outward conveniences, are to man as the skin his to a heart i. therefore, they are !aid to flay a man, or to [trip off his skin, who take away loch con- veniences. Thus to (trip a man to his fhirt,is to flay off his skin, much more doe they flay off his skin, who take (hirt and all. ob fe.mes here to bemoane the loffe, not of meane things, or ofpure neceffaries, without which he could not live, but of great things, the honours and ornaments of this life. He hatb flript me of A'!jglorie. ]The word fignifies that which is weightie, or "Ian gravttac ponderous ; glory and honour are weightie, and they make 1 0m;tnbtara the man weightie in the efteeme, or ballance of the world, vom reddit who hath them. The Apoftle calls it, Aweight ofMary, 2Cor. ponderofum. 4. 16. They that have no glory, nor honour, either in them, or upon them, are light perlons, and they are lightly e- fleemed. But what was this glory, ofwhich he was ftript ? Thereare three forts of glory. Firft, There is fpirituall glory. Secondly, There is heavenly or eternal! glory. Thirdly, There is earthly or temporali glory. Firft, We cannot underftand it of the former. Spiritu- all glory, is the grace of the Spirit wrought in us. Grace is fp.rituali glory. Hence the Kings daughter, typifying the Church, is Paid to beall glorious within, even here in the (late of grace, ( ?/al. 45. 13. ) God will not (trip his meaneft ferveant of this glory, and all the powers of earth or hell cannot. lob was cloathed with this glory when he was naked, and cryedout, Hehathtript me ofmyglory. Secondly,
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=