Thirdly, It is sown in weakness] weakness indeed! What more impotent than Man while yet alive, Vanity it self, Psal. 39.5. Yea, hear that Text out, and you will say he is vanity indeed; for first it is every man, Kings as well as Beggars; 1Giants as well as Pygmies; every man, take where ye will: And secondly, as it is every man, so it is Every vanity, or, *altogether vanity: Every man is the Centre of every vanity; he is not only mixed vanity, partly something and partly nothing; some solidity and some froth; but vanity throughout; vanity, and nothing else! And then (again) it is every man in his *best Estate; or, according to the Heb. *Standing: Ye need not stay till he is down, when he is languishing (suppose) in his sick bed: but, take him standing in his most erect posture, when he is most himself, ⟨p. 92⟩in his bravery; 5or, as it is Isa. 40.6. take him in his goodliness, Gallantry; in his freshest colours and excellencies; and yet then, even then, he is vanity; every man is every vanity: 6and, that you may not doubt of it, the Holy Ghost hath set a double seal to it; one in the front, Verily, and another in the heel of the Text, Selah; Verily, every man in his best Estate is altogether Vanity, Selah; such a piece of vanity that he is not able at his best to free himself of, or fence himself against, the injuries of the most contemptible creature that ever God made; Frogs, and Flies, & Lice, and Worms, have courage enough to encounter, and strength enough to conquer the proudest, potentest Tyrant; as we see in Pharaoh, Herod, &c.
Thirdly, It is sowen in weakness] weakness indeed! What more impotent than Man while yet alive, Vanity it self, Psal. 39.5. Yea, hear that Text out, and you will say he is vanity indeed; for first it is every man, Kings as well as Beggars; 1Giants as well as Pygmies; every man, take where ye will: And secondly, as it is every man, so it is Every vanity, or, *altogether vanity: Every man is the Center of every vanity; he is not only mixt vanity, partly somthing and partly nothing; some solidity and some froth; but vanity throughout; vanity, and nothing else! And then (again) it is every man in his *best Estate; or, according to the Heb. *Standing: Yee need not stay till he is down, when he is languishing (suppose) in his sick bed: but, take him standing in his most erect posture, when he is most himself, ⟨p. 92⟩in his bravery; 5or, as it is Isa. 40.6. take him in his goodliness, Gallantry; in his freshest colours and excellencies; and yet then, even then, he is vanity; every man is every vanity: 6and, that you may not doubt of it, the Holy Ghost hath set a double seal to it; one in the front, Verily, and another in the heel of the Text, Selah; Verily, every man in his best Estate is altogether Vanity, Selah; such a piece of vanity that he is not able at his best to free himself of, or fence himself against, the injuries of the most contemptible creature that ever God made; Frogs, and Flies, & Lice, and Worms, have courage enough to encounter, and strength enough to conquer the proudest, potentest Tyrant; as we see in Pharaoh, Herod, &c.
- 1C•l Adam.
- *Col-Hebel Universa Vanitas.Col-Hebel Ʋniversa Vanitas.
- *Nitztzab.
- *Nitztzab.
- 5Heb. Chasde.
- 6Ach. Utique.Ach. Ʋtique.
