John Trapp on Psalms 139:15

Verſ. 15 My ſubſtance was not hid from mee] Oſſati[illegible: 1 letter] mea, id eſt oſſium [illegible: 1 word] tuum compages, [illegible: 1 letter]embles miſ [illegible: 1 letter]hief of ignor. the ſtructure of my bones and joynts. But was not hee a wiſe man (and yet wiſe enough otherwiſe) who being asked upon his death-bed what his ſoul was? ſeriouſly anſwered; that hee knew not well; but hee thought it was a great bone in the middle of his body?

Was not hid from thee] For thou haſt both the names and number of every part, to a nerve or an artery; Aquinas ſaith, that at the Reſurrection, the bodies of the Saints ſhall bee ſo clear and tranſparent, that all the veins, humours, nerves, and bowels ſhall bee ſeen, as in a glaſs. Tis ſure, that they are ſo to God, when firſt formed in the womb.

When I was made in ſecret] That is, in the womb of my Mother. As curious workmen, [illegible: 2 letters]de Lactant. [illegible: 2 letters] Dei opificio [illegible: 1 letter]alen. de uſu [illegible: 1 letter]rt. Cic. 2. de [illegible: 2 letters]t. dear. when they have ſome choice peece in hand, they perfect it in private; and then bring it forth to light, for men to gaze at: ſo here.

And curiouſly wrought] Variegatus, & quaſi acu pictus, Embroidered and wrought as with the needle; whence man is called a Microcoſm, or little World. Bodine obſerveth, that there are three regions within mans body (beſides all that is ſeen without) anſwerable to thoſe three regions of the World Elementary, Etherial, and Celeſtial. His entrails and whatſoever is under his heart reſemble the Elementary region, wherin only there is Generation and Corruption; [illegible: 1 word]. N[illegible: 2 letters]. [illegible: 3 letters] The heart and vitals that are divided from thoſe entrails by the Diaphragma, reſemble the Ethereall Region: as the brain doth the heavenly, which conſiſteth of intelligible creatures.

In the loweſt parts of the earth] That is, in my Mothers womb, as before. See Ep[illegible: 1 letter]eſ. 4.9. The Syriack interpreteth it (but not ſo well) when I ſhall dye, and be buried, and my bones turned to aſhes, yet thou ſhalt know them.