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3'66 Chap. 19. An Expoftioss upon the Boost of J OB. Vert 26. Firft, He faith, Illy fie,/b, that is my owne flefh, In oppofLi- on to another flefh, whether fpecificall or perfonall, as was inti- mated before, Secondly My flat, as poynting to his prefent effete, My flefb, this flefh ofmine which is now fo miferably worne, and will (hortly beworm- eaten, this my fleth, which is now unmeet for the pretence ofany man, much more fof the prefence of the great God ; even this flefh of mine, this difeafed and defpifed flefh ¡hall be fitted for the prefence of God, the great and glori- ous God ; I, in my flefh, in this my íiefh (hall fee God. Shallfee God. rofee, is often ufed in Scripture to note a divine and fuper- natural! at ; hence propheticall revelations are called vifions, and the Prophets Seers. There is a twofold feeing; Firft, teeing with the eye of the body ; Secondly, feeing with the eye of the minde : a corporal! and an intelleiluail fight : both which may here be underftood, according to the twofold acceptation ofthe word,God. Ifhall fee God. The word god, may be taken, eyther, firft, effentially for the divine nature, and then we muff expound the word fee in the latter fence, I (hall fee him with llludquod ail the eye of my minde, or intelleftu ally. Secondly the word job, in came god, may be takenperfonally for Jefus Chrift the Mediator, who mea vadebo de- having two natures, the divine, and humane, united in his per- um,rejurreEFio- fon, or having affumed the humane nature into the divine, nemqurdldbi p.ee<cldubá which is the perfon, himfelfe is often called God : So that, I nú propbetavrt non shall fee God is this alto, I (hall fee Jefus Chrift, God-man, tamendixir par who being glorified in the body, (hall be feene with bodily earnemmeam eyes. And fo 7o6 affures himfelfe that he (hall fee God in the yod qurdem îe dixtjfet pct e firft fenfe, with theeye of the body ; As if he had faid ; I(hall deaf inteitigr, have aglorified eye to tee a glorified Saviour with.. From or in my quiper ca,nem flefh I ¡hall feeGod. Thus oneof the Ancients gives the inter_ in came videbi- pretation of this Text. Whereas ( faith he) 7 ob fayth, in my fle17o fur; n nc veto fhall fee God, he without doubt prophecied the refurrcllion of his poteff 6. (c ac cipi, in carne fefh :yet he did notfeoy,By myflefh, while if he had fayd, the Text mea ere, can notwithfanding might be expounded of god, who being in thefrfl.Z videbo deem, full befeene by the flefi;yet we may underftand it only theta, Ifaa116e A:rg:4. 21. to in the fl.efh, r+'hrn 1fee Cjod, Civ: 1. c.. 24, Hence F

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