An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

But are not all drops small? why then doth he say, He maketh small the drops? The reason is because, though all drops are sm•ll, yet some drops are smaller than others, and we read of great drops in the Gospel History of Christs agony in the Garden, which was an immediate suffering in his soul, from the hand of his Father, pressing him with that weight of wrath, which was due for our sins (Luke 22.44.) He sweat, as it were, great drops of blood. As God made Christ sweat great drops of blood for our sins, so he makes the Clouds to sweat small drops of water for our comfort. He maketh small The drops of rain.¹

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] Guttavit, guttatim fluxit.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Guttavit, guttatim fluxit.

The Verb of this Substantive is used (Joel 3.18.) In those days it shall come to pass, that the mountains shall drop down new wine; by which we are to understand, the plentiful effusion of the Spirit promised in the latter days. David describing the Lords glorious march through the wilderness, saith (Psal. 68.8, 9.) The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of the Lord; thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance when it was weary. Which Scripture principally intends the spiritual rain, which drops down upon believers, and refresheth their wearied souls: And therefore by a Metaphor, this phrase, to drop, signifies, to prophesy or preach the word of God; because that, like rain, falls silently,¹ and as it were in drops upon the hearers, it falls in at the ear, and soaks down to the heart, it soaks quite through, as Moses spake (