Chap. 3 I. An Expofftion upon the Gook of j oa. Vert 3 a. 639, ¡corne to lay hands on Mordecai alone, but fought to deftroy all the ?ewer that were throughout the whole kingdome of Aka/uertes, even the people ofMordecai.' As ifhe had fayd in the phrafc ofthis text, O that1 had their fiefh, er I will leave the fle/h of them all, I cannot elfe be fatihfied. Ifthe men ofmy Tabernacle ¡aid not ( faith lob ) O that wee had of hisflojh ! Secondly,What meant there men -by flefh ?For anfwcr to that querie, we may take notice, that fl fh is taken foure weyes rte Scripture. Firft, Strictly, inoppofition to the bones of the body (Gen.z. 23.) This if ftfhofmy fiefs, and bone ofmy bone,fayd Adam when God prefented the woman to him for a wife. Secondly , Flefh is put for the whole body , oppofed to the foule (Gen. 2.21.. )They two /hall beone fltfh, that is, one body, (peaking ofhusband `and wife. Thirdly, Flefh is pit in general! for every creature of the earth, having a fenfitive life. (Gen. 7.21. ) Allflefh aiéa that mo- ved upon the earth, both of fovule, and of cartel, andofbeaff, and of everycreeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, andevery atan. Every living thing is ah flcfh. Fourthly, Flefh is put for the whole man, both foule and bò= dy, while we continue in this (fate offrailty and mortalits (Dent. 5.26.) For who is thereofanyfirfh, whobath beard thevoyce of the living God ffteaking cut ofthe midli of the fire as wee have heard ? That is, who ofall mankinde, or what nation among all the na- tionsof the earth, bath had this priviledge to heare the immedi- atevoyce of God,but weof this nation ? We have had an unpor. ralel'd favour. The Prophet makes Proclamationat the command of the Lord( fu. 4,:x 5, 6.) At7firJh iegraffe ; that is, mancon. fittingof foule and body, whole man is a fading creature tic ,Ni. thers q,ticklyas to his prelent Condition,he is but graffe : fcienes fades his beauty, and then death comes and mowes him his body returnes to the duct from whence it came, and his fp rit returnes toGod that give it. When ?oh, hou(heid friends ur fervants, the men ofhis Tabernacle deli red the fl-111 Of 'hisene- mies, wee are not tounderhand it of the A,. ib which they had in their grounds, their bealts andcatteil : ¡ter flrie`tlyof the ffc(h c.f their bodyes oppofed tobone; nor of r'.p bodyopoofco to the foule:but the meaning is, O thatthe men who hate j^;b c :.
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