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

Fourthly, When he saith, Knowest thou how thy garments are warm?

Note; Man cannot give a full account or reason of common things, or of his daily comforts and enjoyments.

Note; Man cannot give a full account or reason of common things, or of his dayly comforts and enjoyments.

What's more common than for a man to wear garments? what then to find his garments warm upon him, or himself warm in his garments? and why a mans clothes warm him we need not go to enquire of a great Philosopher, any man, any common man can give or assign a cause of it. Yet there is some-what in it beyond natural causes, which few take any notice of, and none can sufficiently or fully apprehend. Second causes produce their effects, the temperature of the air is a cause of warmth, and the garments we wear, warm us by exciting and drawing out the congenial warmth within us; yet Elihu puts on the question further than that,¹ Knowest thou how thy garments are warm, When he quieteth the earth with the South Wind?

What's more common than for a man to wear garments? what then to find his garments warm upon him, or himself warm in his garments? and why a mans cloaths warm him we need not go to enquire of a great Philosopher, any man, any common man can give or assign a cause of it. Yet there is some-what in it beyond natural causes, which few take any notice of, and none can sufficiently or fully apprehend. Second causes produce their effects, the temperature of the air is a cause of warmth, and the garments we wear, warm us by exciting and drawing out the congenial warmth within us; yet Elihu puts on the question further than that,