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

Lastly, Whereas, when Elihu to the question, Knowest thou how thy garments are warm, puts this addition, when he quieteth the earth with the South wind? Job might say, that's an answer to the question. If you ask me, how my garments are warm? I answer, By Gods quieting the earth with the South wind. But here is something more intended; though this be a cause of warmth, yet not all the cause. It is possible for the weather to be warm, and our garments not warm. It was showed before, that God is able to suspend the working or effects of nature; as, through his power a man may be in the fire and yet the fire not burn him (it was so with the Three Children in Daniel) so a man may be in the Sunshine, and his clothes not warm him. God can stay or stop the influences and effects of the Sun. The shining of the Sun and the quietness of the Air are true reasons of the warmth we feel in our garments, yet not all the reason. And therefore Elihu would convince Job by this question, that if he could no• give the whole reason of Naturals, much less could he of providentials. And as he convinceth him of his insufficiency, and incompetency to deal and debate wi•h God, by his ignorance ab•ut the warmth of his garments that cove•ed him; So in the next verse, he convinceth him of weakness and inability, by calling him to consider the mighty power and self sufficiency of God, who alone, without any of his or of any mans assistance, made and spread out the mighty garment, the Sky, which enwraps and covers all men and all things on earth. That's the general import of the following question.

Lastly, Whereas, when Elihu to the question, Knowest thou how thy garments are warm, puts this addition, when he quieteth the earth with the South wind? Job might say, that's an answer to the question. If you ask me, how my garments are warm? I answer, By Gods quieting the earth with the South wind. But here is something more intended; though this be a cause of warmth, yet not all the cause. It is possible for the weather to be warm, and our garments not warm. It was shewed before, that God is able to suspend the working or effects of nature; as, through his power a man may be in the fire and yet the fire not burn him (it was so with the Three Children in Daniel) so a man may be in the Sunshine, and his clothes not warm him. God can stay or stop the influences and effects of the Sun. The shining of the Sun and the quietness of the Air are true reasons of the warmth we feel in our garments, yet not all the reason. And therefore Elihu would convince Job by this question, that if he could no give the whole reason of Naturals, much less could he of providentials. And as he convinceth him of his insufficiency, and incompetency to deal and debate wih God, by his ignorance abut the warmth of his garments that coveed him; So in the next verse, he convinceth him of weakness and inability, by calling him to consider the mighty power and self suffiiency of God, who alone, without any of his or of any mans assistance, made and spread out the mighty garment, the Skie, which enwraps and covers all men and all things on earth. That's the general import of the following question.