The property is two-fold, abominable, even as a carcass is abominable that hath lost the soul which did animate it, so is man being made carnal and natural, having lost the Spirit of God and his image; Abominable, that denoteth such loathsomeness that we cannot endure to behold or come near the object loathed, that we cannot endure the sight of it; such a thing is man naturally in the eyes of God, the Hebrew word for man is the strongest man, or the most famous and best of men naturally; and indeed this is to be applied even to regenerate men also, so far as original corruption hath still any vigorous actings in them, (for so some think,) Job was not sensible enough, though otherwise godly, of the contaminating power of original sin in him, whereby his best duties had some impurity, and so God might justly bring all that evil upon him he did; Thus man is abominable and loathsome in the eyes of God, and he ought to be so in his own eyes, to his own self, a natural man should not be able to bear or endure himself, because of that loathsome sinfulness that doth adhere to him: how much are Pelagian-Doctrines that cry up a purity in mans nature, contrary to this Text? Oh that God would mercifully do that to such corrupt Doctors, which God threatens in anger to the profane secure sinner, Psal 50. 21. I will reprove thee, and set in order before thy eyes, the original doth not name what, the translator addeth his sins, some add thy own self, which cometh all to one, I will set thy self before thy self, and all thy sins, in the several kinds and grievous aggravations of then; The Hebrew word is military and taken from setting a battle in array against another; Thus God said he would do, and what a mercy is it to a man, when all our self-love, self-flattery, and self-fullness shall be removed, and God shall set our selves in all our loathsomeness and deformity before our selves; What burdens would we be to our own selves? but this is Gods work, humane speculations and moral instructions have no efficacy herein. The second property attributed to man is filthy: The Hebrew word is only used here, and Psal. 14. 3. and Psal. 53. 3. concerning the root of it, there is no certainty, only it is generally translated that which is putrid rotten and stinking, and because rotten and putrefying things are unuseful and unprofitable: Hence it is that, Rom. 3. 12.
The property is two-fold, abominable, even as a carkass is abominable that hath lost the soul which did animate it, so is man being made carnal and natural, having lost the Spirit of God and his image; Abhominable, that denoteth such loathsomeness that we cannot endure to behold or come near the object loathed, that we cannot endure the sight of it; such a thing is man naturally in the eyes of God, the Hebrew word for man is the strongest man, or the most famous and best of men naturally; and indeed this is to be applyed even to regenerate men also, so farre as original corruption hath still any vigorous actings in them, (for so some think,) Job was not sensible enough, though otherwise godly, of the contaminating power of original sinne in him, whereby his best duties had some impurity, and so God might justly bring all that evil upon him he did; Thus man is abominable and loathsome in the eyes of God, and he ought to be so in his own eyes, to his own self, a natural man should not be able to bear or endure himself, because of that loathsome sinfulness that doth adhere to him: how much are Pelagian-Doctrines that cry up a purity in mans nature, contrary to this Text? Oh that God would mercifully do that to such corrupt Doctors, which God threatens in anger to the prophane secure sinner, Psal 50. 21. I will reprove thee, and set in order before thy eyes, the original doth not name what, the translator addeth his sinnes, some adde thy own self, which cometh all to one, I will set thy self before thy self, and all thy sinnes, in the several kinds and grievous aggravations of then; The Hebrew word is military and taken from setting a battell in aray against another; Thus God said he would do, and what a mercy is it to a man, when all our self-love, self-flattery, and self-fullness shall be removed, and God shall set our selves in all our loathsomeness and deformity before our selves; What burdens would we be to our own selves? but this is Gods work, humane speculations and moral instructions have no efficacy herein. The second propercy attributed to man is filthy: The Hebrew word is only used here, and Psal. 14. 3. and Psal. 53. 3. concerning the root of it, there is no certainty, only it is generally translated that which is putrid rotten and stinking, and because rotten and putrifying things are unusefull and unprofitable: Hence it is that, Rom. 3. 12.
