Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

Fourthly, There is a wonderful contexture of parts in both births. Admirable is the structure of man's body, in which there is such a variety of organs: nothing wanting, nothing superfluous. The Psalmist considering his own body, looks on it as a piece of marvellous work: I […] fearfully and wonderfully made, saith he, Psal. cxxxix. 14. and curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth, ver. 15. That is, in the womb, where I know not how the bones do grow, more than I know what is a-doing in the lowest parts of the earth. In natural generation, we are curiously wrought, as a piece of needle-work; as the word imports: even so it is in regeneration, Psal. xlv. 14. She shall be brought unto the King, in raiment of needle-work, raiment curiously wrought. It is the same word in both texts. And what that raiment is, the Apostle tells us, Eph. iv. 24. It is the new man, which, after God, is created in righteousness and true holiness. That is the raiment, he saith, in the same place, we must put on; not excluding the imputed righteousness of Christ. Both are curiously wrought, as master-pieces of the manifold wisdom of God. O the wonderful contexture of graces in the new creature! O glorious creature, new-made, after the image of God! It is grace for grace in Christ, which makes up the new man, John i 16. Even as in bodily generation, the child has member for member in the parent; has every member the parent has, in a certain proportion.

Fourthly, There is a wonderful contexture of parts in both births. Admirable is the structure of man's body, in which there is such a variety of organs: nothing wanting, nothing superfluous. The Psalmist considering his own body, looks on it as a piece of marvellous work: I 〈…〉 fearfully and wonderfully made, saith he, Psal. cxxxix. 14. and curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth, ver. 15. That is, in the womb, where I know not how the bones do grow, more than I know what is a-doing in the lowest parts of the earth. In natural generation, we are curiously wrought, as a piece of needle-work; as the word imports: even so it is in regeneration, Psal. xlv. 14. She shall be brought unto the King, in raiment of needle-work, raiment curiously wrought. It is the same word in both texts. And what that raiment is, the Apostle tells us,