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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
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.
First, By contusion or beating with hammers, as a mass of gold or silver, &c. is spread into thin plates and leaves.
First, By contusion or beating with hammers, as a masse of gold or silver, &c. is spread into thin plates and leaves.
Secondly, By way of rarefaction or attenuation; water is rarefied by fire, and so are metals, when they are melted or caused to run with extreme heat. In allusion to which, Elihu speaks in his challenge to Job (Chap. 37.18.) Hast thou with him spread out the ⟨p. 201⟩sky which is strong, and as a molten looking-glass. The sky is of a weak, sleight matter, not hard, massive, or elemental, yet it is strong; the nature of it being incorruptible, the figure of it round and indissoluble. And it is compared to a looking-glass, for the clearness of it; those instruments were made, some of glass, some of steel or brass, molten and polished for that purpose.
Secondly, By way of rarefaction or attenuation; water is rarefied by fire, and so are metals, when they are melted or caused to runne with extreme heat. In allusion to which, Elihu speaks in his challenge to Job (Chap. 37.18.) Hast thou with him spread out the ⟨p. 201⟩skie which is strong, and as a molten looking-glasse. The skie is of a weak, sleight matter, not hard, massie, or elementall, yet it is strong; the nature of it being incorruptible, the figure of it round and indissoluble. And it is compared to a looking-glasse, for the clearnesse of it; those instruments were made, some of glasse, some of steel or brasse, molten and polisht for that purpose.