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

He can give meat in scarcity, as well as meat in abundance; he can give cleanness of teeth as well as fullness of bread: And as he can strengthen the staff of bread, so break it, and cause us to eat bread by weight and with care, and to drink water by measure and with astonishment (Ezek. 4.16.) To eat by weight and drink by measure, is to eat and drink in the want of bread and water, as is expressed (vers. 17.) And as these changes of our natural, so of our spiritual food are from the Lord (Amos 8.11.) I will send a famine (What famine?) not of bread, but of hearing the word of the Lord. 'Tis the Lord who sends plenty and scarcity of bread, whether for the soul or for the body.

He can give meat in scarcity, as well as meat in abundance; he can give cleanness of teeth as well as fulness of bread: And as he can strengthen the staff of bread, so break it, and cause us to eat bread by weight and with care, and to drink water by measure and with astonishment (Ezek. 4.16.) To eat by weight and drink by measure, is to eat and drink in the want of bread and water, as is expressed (vers. 17.) And as these changes of our natural, so of our spiritual food are from the Lord (Amos 8.11.) I will send a famine (What famine?) not of bread, but of hearing the word of the Lord. 'Tis the Lord who sends plenty and scarcity of bread, whether for the soul or for the body.

Fourthly, In that he saith, by them he giveth meat in abundance,