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

I answer, though Elihu's question hath a negation in it, yet not a total negation, […] doth not exclude the understanding of men wholly out of […] clouds; he only denieth man a full understanding of all thin• […] •ch concern either the nature or motion of the clouds. Wh• […] understand much about the spreading of the clouds, but they cannot understand all. The best of godly men understand not much, or see but a little way into spiritual things: And the wisest of worldly men do not, cannot, see all in natural ⟨p. 400⟩things. Can any understand The spreading of the Clouds?

I answer, though Elihu's question hath a negation in it, yet not a total negation, 〈…〉 doth not exclude the understanding of men wholly out of 〈…〉 cl•uds; he only denieth man a full understanding of all thin• 〈…〉 •ch concern either the nature or motion of the clouds. Wh• 〈…〉 understand much about the spreading of the clouds, but they cannot understand all. The best of godly men unde•stand not much, or see but a little way into spiritual things: And the wisest of worldly men do not, cannot, see all in natural ⟨p. 400⟩things. Can any understand The spreading of the Clouds?

¹Here are, First, the Clouds; Secondly, the spreading of them. The word which we translate, spreading, hath a two-fold signification: First, (with the alteration only of a point upon one letter) it signifieth The difference of things in any kind: And then the Text is read, Can any understand the difference of the Clouds, that is, the variety that is among the clouds. The clouds are not all of a likeness, nor all of a bigness; there are clouds of many sorts and sizes: there are clouds which breed snow, and clouds which breed hail, clouds which breed rain, and clouds which breed thunder and lightning. Some clouds are empty, called clouds without rain or water, (