A godly and learned exposition or commentary upon the three first chapters of the…A godly and learned exposition or commentarie vpon the three first chapters of the…

The third part of their misery, is Nakedness. Nakedness is two-fold; To the eye of man, & to God. Nakedness to the eye of man is bodily, & that is also two-fold: either that which was before the fall in the bodies of our first parents, whereby their bodies being uncovered, appeared very glorious without shame: or that which is after the fall; whereby the body being naked & bare appears full of shame, which is so excessive, by reason of mans sin, that if necessity would permit, the whole body both face & hands should all be covered. Nakedness before God, is when any man lies before God, a deformed sinner. In this case Moses saw the Israelites ^awhen they had made a golden Calf ▪ For thereby they deprived themselves of Gods Image, and were guilty of that most grievous sin of Idolatry. This is a misery of all miseries; & the greatest nakedness that can be: And this is the nakedness of this Church in this place. Qu. Why doth Christ call them naked? Ans. To move them, and in their persons all professors to have care not to fly from God, ^band to hide their sins with Adam, but to bring themselves into his presence, and there lay open their sins, that they may obtain a covering for them by Christ. It is the practise of the world, to hide their sins from men, but never to care how bare & naked they be in the sight of God, who yet seeth them all as plainly as we see the sores of any poor lazar that shows the same to move our pity towards him: which if we could see, we should be ashamed not to seek to cover our sins before ⟨p. 207⟩God. We must therefore labour in our own consciences to see the nakedness of our souls before God; and seek to be touched and humbled for the same, that so we may earnestly entreat for the righteousness of Christ, to be a covering to clothe our souls. This was Davids practise, for when he saith: Blessed are they whose sins are covered, Psal. 32.1; he would give us to understand, that he used to uncover his sins, and lay them open before God; that at his hands in Christ, he might get a cover for them.

The third part of their misery, is Nakednes. Nakednes is two-fold; To the eie of man, & to God. Nakednes to the eie of man is bodily, & that is also two-fold: either that which was before the fall in the bodies of our first parents, whereby their bodies being vncouered, appeared very glorious without shame: or that which is after the fall; wherby the bodie being naked & bare appears full of shame, which is so excessiue, by reason of mans sin, that if necessity would permit, the whole body both face & hands should all be couered. Nakednes before God, is when any man lies before God, a deformed sinner. In this case Moses sawe the Israelites