An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Some have quarrelled with the wisdom and goodness of God, for turning man altogether naked and unarmed into the world. This Scripture is enough to confute the unreasonableness of that quarrel. Job thankfully acknowledgeth, That he was both clothed and armed, though not in the sense of these complainers. It is more honourable for man to make himself artificial clothing and arms, then to have had none but natural; God hath given man ⟨p. 517⟩reason to invent, hands to prepare, and a tongue to call for those things which by a Law of nature are imposed upon other creatures; the power of reason, and the skill of the hand are a better safeguard to man then any the beasts have, and can provide whatsoever man wants to secure him either from cold or danger. And though the body, as now it stands, be but (as it were) the sepulchre of that which God at first created, though we lie open to so many diseases and deaths, that the soul may well be said to inhabit an unwalled, and an unfortified City, yet man hath great cause for ever to extol the bounty of God in those still continued ennoblements of this earthly mansion, his mortal body. Yea, The noble structure and symmetry of our bodies, invites our souls not only to thankfulness, but to admiration. One of the Ancients stileth man a great miracle. Another, The miracle of miracles: A third, The measure of all things: A fourth, The pattern of the universe, the worlds epitome, The world in a small volume, or a little world. They also have distinguished the whole frame of the body into three stories, in allusion to a like frame observable in the world. First, The superior, which they call intellectual or angelical, because they conceived it to be the habitation of Angels or Intelligences. The second or middle part they call celestial or heavenly, the seat of the Sun and stars. The third, Elementary, in which all corporeal creatures are procreated and nourished. This division of the world is eminent in man, for he also is a building of three stories. The head which is the seat of reason, the mansion, the tower of wisdom and understanding is placed highest: the breast or middle venture is the celestial part, wherein the heart, like the Sun is predominant; some have called the Sun, The heart of the world;

Some have quarrelled with the wisdom and goodnesse of God, for turning man altogether naked and unarmed into the world. This Scripture is enough to confute the unreasonablenesse of that quarrel. Job thankfully acknowledgeth, That he was both clothed and armed, though not in the sense of these complainers. It is more honourable for man to make himself artificiall clothing and arms, then to have had none but naturall; God hath given man