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…

First, An allusion to the art of a potter, who formeth and fashioneth earthen vessels, turning them often about and about upon his wheel. Or it may be an allusion to a Statuary, or to a painter, who having a curious costly piece in hand, goes about it, and views it round on every side: That if any thing suit not his eye, his fancy, or the rule of art, he may correct it.

First, An allusion to the art of a potter, who formeth and fashioneth earthen vessels, turning them often about and about upon his wheel. Or it may be an allusion to a Statuary, or to a painter, vvho having a curious costly piece in hand, goes about it, and views it round on every side: That if any thing sute not his eye, his fancy, or the rule of art, he may correct it.

Secondly,^a Others conceive that this round about, is only a circumlocution for the body, because the body encompasseth the soul round about, as a garment doth the body, or a house the inhabitant.

1. aDicit in circuitu, quod corpus videtur animae esse in circuitu, sicut vestimentum vest ito, aut sicut domu habitatori Aquin.

Thirdly,^b Together round about, is (as was touched before) me in every part, or all me. When some took offence at Christs healing of a sick man upon the Sabbath-day, he answers, Are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day? (Joh. 7.23.) or that I have made the whole man whole, not leaving any unsound limb about him? There is a like phrase (