Chap.3 t An expofitiose upon the Book of J oB. Vert. 3 3. 663 tg,) In the 'multitude of words there reantetb not /iinne; Thai is, there is ulually flore of fin in flore of wors; yet we know a flip of the"tongue(for wecannot probably interpret that Scriptureof meditated evil! fpeaking, a flip cf the tongue I fay ) is not`recko- ned among great fins,though no fin confidered in it fd(e be lit le. Sohere I conceave Tub intends that he did not cover any fin,whe- ther great or lisle, when he faith, If1covered my tran,!$rrfons as Adam. There's the reftri&ion or modificationof the ad denyed. Yet this word Adammay be taken two wages ; Fiat, more narrowly as a proper narne.The first man was called Adam from Adamah, red earth, out of which the Lord made or created him,, ( Gen. z. 7.) eilnd the Lord Godformedman of the dull cf the ground, and breathed into his nofirills the breath of life. As Adam was formed out of the daft of the earth, fo from that he tooke his name. And this lutes elegantly with lobs purpofe ; and is alfo an argil!, ment thatlob was wet, acquainted with, and intlruded about, thofe rieceffary principles of religion, the Rate Ofthe firft man in his innocency, as allo with his fall from that ftate,and the fad cf,, felts and confequents of it. e.4d,ánr having finned,imployed that title wit or vaine fubtlety he had left to cover his fin; and hide it fromGod, as I (hall have occafion to (hew more particularly, hi the profecution ofthis scripture. Therefore, faith yeb, IfI cove- red my tranfgreJon as Adam, the firft man Adam, Whether afofes had written his five bookes before lobs time is a query of a difficult,if at all ofa poffìble,refolution ; yet however,God was not wanting to his Church, but eyther by tradition from Gnarl to man, or by immediate revelation from himfelfe; continued the doctrine ofthe 'creation and fall of man,with the neceffary truths depending thereupon among his people from Adam to Mies, which might give lob light enough to fay even with relped to that perfonal ad ofAdam,, IfI have covered my tranfgreons ás LidarrL., Secondly We may take the word Adam more largely, that is,"Appcilatirely, or as a common name applicable to all men'; for every raan,fince the firft man Adam, is an Adam. There are three words by which.man is expreffed in Scripture. First , Ifh, which figoifieth man in his higheft excellency', and dig,.
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