An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…

Flesh and bones are the two eminent materials of this fair and most regular building, The Body of man. The Bones of a healthy and strong man, are not seen because they are covered with flesh; they are only felt or perceived through their clothing, skin, and flesh. God hath put these very comely and beautiful garments as a covering upon our bones: but sickness pulls away these coverings, it pulls away the clothes from our bones, and makes them appear, as it were, naked. When the fat is dripped away, and the flesh is spent, the bones seem to start out. We commonly say of a man that hath been consumed by a lingering sickness, He is a very Skeleton, he looks like an Anatomy, which is nothing else but a pack of bones, the flesh is gone. Thus David mourned (Psal: 31.10.) My life is spent with grief, my years with sighing, my strength faileth because of mine iniquity: and my bones are consumed. The sin-sickness of a sensible soul consumes the bones, more then any bodily sickness. This was not only the consuming but the breaking of Davids bones (Psal: 51.8.) And as his sorrow for his own transgressions, so his sorrow for the afflictions of Zion, had the like effect in him (Psal: 102.3, 4, 5.) My days are consumed like smoke or into smoke (they vanish like smoke) and my bones are burnt as a hearth. My heart is smitten, and withereth like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread; By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin.

Flesh and bones are the two eminent materialls of this faire and most regular building, The Body of man. The Bones of a healthy and strong man, are not seene because they are covered with flesh; they are only felt or perceived through their clothing, skin, and flesh. God hath put these very comely and beautifull garments as a covering upon our bones: but sickness pulls away these coverings, it pulls away the cloaths from our bones, and makes them appeare, as it were, naked. When the fat is dript away, and the flesh is spent, the bones seeme to start out. We commonly say of a man that hath been consumed by a lingring sickness, He is a very Skelleton, he lookes like an Anatomy, which is nothing else but a pack of bones, the flesh is gone. Thus David mourned (Psal: 31.10.) My life is spent with griefe, my yeares with sighing, my strength faileth because of mine iniquity: and my bones are consumed. The sin-sickness of a sencible soule consumes the bones, more then any bodyly sickness. This was not only the consuming but the breaking of Davids bones (Psal: 51.8.) And as his sorrow for his owne transgressions, so his sorrow for the afflictions of Sion, had the like effect in him (Psal: 102.3, 4, 5.) My dayes are consumed like smoake or into smoake (they vanish like smoake) and my bones are burnt as a hearth. My heart is smitten, and withereth like grasse; so that I forget to eate my bread; By reason of the voyce of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin.