392. . An E..~pofition, with Notes Verfe I 5. Thu Wifdom defcendeth not from above; but is earthly,[aljual, Jevilijh. _ · To right the 'truth, agail'lfi whofe glory they bad Iyed, he addetb · thefe words, whtrein he Ll1eweth, chat though they had a pretence· ·of zeal and wifaom, yet it was not heavenly wifdom, but fuch as come.th from theDevil, or the corrupt heart of man: There is a great deal of d1fference between cunning and holy wifdom. Th.u 'Wifdom dejce1'f.dethnot from abov.e,] Fromabove; that • is, from God , as Cap. I. 17. whomwe worfhip as D~btnn, becau!e k v,,., dicit his Glory chiefly thnethf~rth in th~ ~av~ns; true wifdom is of £ • 1 cu- fcd that defceot: .k Some ob !e:~e a Cnttct(mm the word x.a,1sn£1ru, . x.~f; ~1ct.t dtfcend(th, ~t p~optrly figmht th r:eturneth; y;e_ lofi it in 4~am, .£l a/,~- Dt;no· an? w.e r..:cetve tt ~g~m from flbove ; . the fence IS then, -thts IS no fthenem& Ari- ~~~dom _ of Gods g1vmg. ~ilt you wlll fay,All common knowledg ·flottlem, AnnB· IS from God, evm rhac wh1ch-1s employed about earthly matters. t~t ~ Budteo I anfwer, The Apo.ftle fpea~eth nor of skill,qut carnal wifdom, and · d1 ~1~ur . llieweth 'cis not fuch as the Holy Gho,fi giveth, but is infpired it:l. ~rxs c:7cu, by the Spirit ofdarkne:fs. , · qrn rcalt e:xul hi J H ·h h IL L · • f flu p f/.timi i' Butt& cart ') , ere ecomet to wew tue properttes o car- 'redit. ~roch~~ nal wifdom; he reckoneth up three, fuiring with the three forts of · in loc• l lutl:s mentioned, I Joh.2.I6. as anon more fully. Earthly 'tiscall.. ed,bi:caufe it fuircrh with earthly minds,'cis employed abo.nt earth– ly things, to a carnal or earthly purpofe: ·So Paul fpeaketh of , \ fame that are IJ'oq;ol;;. dtf:v, T~1(<), only wife for this world, 1 Cor. 3· 18· ' . . Scn[ufll,] The word in the original is .fux.tx.~, the Vulgar ren- . dereth ~tnim.'llis, animal; 'cis dfewhere rendered n~~.mral, as 1 Cor. 2. I 4.. d. vGf(<)71'&- .ftix_Jx.@-, the n~ttural man, one guided by carnal re~fon; for he is oppofed to -;rriuf.J-d.TtH-@-, the Jpiritu~tl man, verfo 1 5. one that is furnitbed with divme illumination: ' ·ns again ufed, ' 7 Hde 19. ·.fvx.tx.ot 71'1/Svf.l-11, p.n ¥x.ov1s~, and craoilaced as here,f'cnfual men, not having the Spint: The word. properly fignifi~th thofe rhat have aSoul, or arifing from the Soul; and"'cis ufually oppof<ld eo the ltght and faving workof the Spitit,, "Tis' good to know up- · on what grounds 'us tranflated fenjual: I fuppofe the reafon is, . partly from that place of the Apofile, 1 The[. 5. 2 3. where he difiin- . gui£}-l~ch of Body,Soul~a.<-~d Spirit~ as the three parts and fubjeds of. the.
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