An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

These things considered, we may see the strength of the Argument in the 19. verse, How much less on them who dwell in houses of clay, &c. as if he should say; Forasmuch, as Angels cannot stand in competition with God, or approve themselves in his sight, certainly ⟨p. 144⟩much less can man, how great thoughts soever he hath of himself; much less can man be justified in his sight, who comes so many degrees short of Angelical perfections; For, his soul which is within him, though it be a noble and a spiritual substance, and that wherein he is most like to Angels, yet this soul of his, sojourns, dwells and acts, in a body composed of corruptible clay, and hath no better a foundation (in a natural capacity) than the very dust; And, so subject is this man to mortality, thus composed of dust and clay, as, what through the inward distempers of his body, what through outward accidents and casualties, he is as transitory and as subject to death, as the meanest worm, as the poorest creature in the world, he is crushed before the moth.

These things considered, we may see the strength of the Argument in the 19. verse, How much lesse on them who dwell in houses of clay, &c. as if he should say; Forasmuch, as Angels cannot stand in competition with God, or approve themselves in his sight, certainly ⟨p. 144⟩much lesse can man, how great thoughts soever he hath of himselfe; much lesse can man be justified in his sight, who comes so many degrees short of Angelicall perfections; For, his soule which is within him, though it be a noble and a spirituall substance, and that wherein he is most like to Angels, yet this soule of his, sojournes, dwels and acts, in a body composed of corruptible clay, and hath no better a foundation (in a naturall capacitie) than the very dust; And, so subject is this man to mortality, thus composed of dust and clay, as, what through the inward distempers of his body, what through outward accidents and casualties, he is as transitory and as subject to death, as the meanest worme, as the poorest creature in the world, he is crushed before the moth.