A35537:1731
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 37 › Verses 6-8
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But not to go further from the Text in hand; we see that Snow and rain have the same original, both being formed out of vapours. As in mans body (who is a little world) from the Stomach there ri•e up vapours to the Head, which by the coldness of the brain are changed into, and sent back again in Rheums and Catarrhs: So vapours drawn up from the Earth into the Air, are sent back in Snow and Rain. Solomon describing the infirmities of old age, alludes to this, while he warns the young man, that thus the Clouds will return after the Rain (Eccl. 12.2.) which may be understood either more generally of that succession of troubles to which old age is subject, or more particularly of Rheum and Flegm wherewith old age is molested; the defluxion of the Rheum being as the Rain, and the gathering of new matter, which continually distilleth from the Head upon the Lungs, being as the returning of the Clouds after the Rain. He saith to the Snow Be thou on the earth.
But not to go further from the Text in hand; we see that Snow and rain have the same original, both being formed out of vapours. As in mans body (who is a little world) from the Stomack there ri•e up vapours to the Head, which by the coldness of the brain are changed into, and sent back again in Rheumes and Catarrs: So vapours drawn up from the Earth into the Air, are sent back in Snow and Rain. Solomon desc•ibing the infirmities of old age, alludes to this, while he warnes the young man, that thus the Cl•uds will return after the Rain (Eccl. 12.2.) which may be understood either more generally of that succession of troubles to which old age is subject, or more particularly of Rheum and Flegm wherewith old age is molested; the defluxion of the Rheum being as the Rain, and the gathering of new matter, which continually distilleth from the Head upon the Lungs, being as the returning of the Clouds after the Rain. He saith to the Snow Be thou on the earth.