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

Canst thou give an account of that sudden change, whence it is that the South wind ceasing to raise storms in the earth, there should presently succeed such fervent heat, that thou art not able to bear thy own ordinary clothes? The text is, that, or how it cometh to pass, that thy garments are warm. As if Elihu had said, ⟨p. 558⟩I have dealt with thee about higher and greater ma•ters; I will now put a question to thee which is more familiar, Canst thou tell me how thy garments are warm? Su•ely it thou ar• not able to give me a clear reason about that, how art thou able to enter n•o the more reserved secrets of God? tell me, if thou canst, How thy Garments are warm?

Canst thou give an account of that sudden change, whence it is that the South wind ceasing to raise stormes in the earth, there should presently succeed such fervent heat, that thou art not able to bear thy own ordinary clothes? The text is, that, or how it cometh to pass, that thy garments are warm. As if Elihu had said, ⟨p. 558⟩I have dealt with thee about higher and greater ma•ters; I will now put a question to thee which is more familiar, Canst thou tell me how thy garments are warm? Su•ely it thou ar• not able to give me a clear reason about that, how art thou able to enter n•o the more reserved secrets of God? tell me, if thou canst, How thy Garments are warm?

¹The wo•d which we translate garments, hath a very considerable significancy in it, coming f om a root rendered deci, al hood, and a lie. The garments which we wear ae boh a tegumen o covering of our nakedness, and a testimony of our perficiusness and falseness with the great God. Be oe man sinned he wore no garments, nor had he need to wear any, innocency was his clothing; nor was the natural man ever so gloriously adorned, decks and dressed, as when he had no garments besides his innocency. When man prevaricated and dealt falsely with God, when he snne and broke the commandment (his nakedness appeaing and his shame) he then got a simple coveing, such as he could make for himself of fig-leaves, till God provided him a covering of skins. Garments began with our sin, till then (saith Moses,