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

The word which signifieth to heat, or make warm (I note that by the way also) was the name of one of the sons of Noah; he had three, called Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham or Ham was that son who saw his fathers nakedness, and told his two brethren without, not g•ievingly, but deridingly, which brought a curse upon him. This Ham had his name from heat; and that portion and ⟨p. 559⟩part of the world which, according to the opinion of the learned, was assigned to the posterity of Ham, is one of the hottest climates in the world; the inhabitants of those Countries by reason of the extreme heat of the Sun, being black, are called Blackmores. ¹And all Africa was called Ammonia, either because the Idol of the Sun was worshipped there, or because the Sun-beams are always hot and fie•y upon it. Yet as the word notes that extreme heat which causeth blackness, so any moderate heat; Dist thou know how thy garments are warm?

The word which signifieth to heat, or make warm (I note that by the way also) was the name of one of the sons of Noah; he had three, called Sem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham or Cham was that son who saw his fathers naked•ess, and told his two brethren without, not g•ievingly, but deridingly, which brought a curse upon him. This Cham had his name from heat; and that portion and ⟨p. 559⟩part of the world which, according to the opinion of the learned, was assigned to the posterity of Cham, is one of the hottest climates in the world; the inhabitants of those Countries by reason of the extream heat of the Sun, being black, are called Blackmores. ¹And all Affrica was called Ammonia, either because the Idol of the Sun was wo•shipped there, or because the Sun-beams are alwayes hot and fie•y upon it. Yet as the word notes that extream heat which causeth blackness, so any moderate heat; Dist thou know how thy garments are warm?