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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…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
All flesh, that is, every man, be he who he will, shall perish. Thus as all flesh is restrained to man, so it extendeth over all men, yea over all things of man (Isa. 40.6.) All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field; that is, all men are perishing, and all that man hath, merely as a man, is as fading and perishing as himself is.
All flesh, that is, every man, be he who he will, shall perish. Thus as all flesh is restrained to man, so it extendeth over all men, yea over all things of man (Isa. 40.6.) All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field; that is, all men are perishing, and all that man hath, meerly as a man, is as fading and perishing as himself is.
Some take notice, that man was not called flesh till after his fall; It's said before, when God set him up in that primitive purity of his Creation, Man became a living soul. He was not spoken of at first as flesh, but as a living soul, (Gen. 2.7.) but as soon as man had sinned, he was called flesh, as if he had no soul. There may two other reasons be given why man is called flesh, both following from the former. First, Because man since his fall doth ⟨p. 596⟩most for his flesh, and neglects his soul altogether, till being planted into the second Adam, he is brought out of that wretched condition into which he fell by and with the first Adam. Secondly, He is called flesh, because, since the fall man is become weak and frail, both as to Naturals and Morals, (Gen. 6.3.) My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: As if the Lord had said, Now man declareth himself to be flesh indeed, he acts like an impotent sorry creature, he acts as if he scarce had a soul in him, as if he were no more then the beasts of the earth: My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh; and therefore (v. 30.) God told Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; that is, Man, and all his worldly glory, shall all be swept away with a deluge of water, as here, All flesh shall perish together.