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

And as fatness is used in Scripture to express the best of spiritual things, so fatness expresseth the best of natural and outward good things, (Psal. 65.11.) Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness; that is, plenty, and plenty of the best things, which grow out of the earth by the blessing and benign influences of Heaven. I conceive spiritual good things, the best of them, are also shadowed under those expressions of Temporal.

And as fatness is used in Scripture to express the best of spiritual things, so fatness expresseth the best of natural and outward good things, (Psal. 65.11.) Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness; that is, plenty, and plenty of the best things, which grow out of the earth by the blessing and benigne influences of Heaven. I conceive spiritual good things, the best of them, are also shadowed under those expressions of Temporal.

Further, Elihu doth not only say, That which shall be set upon thy Table shall be fat, ¹but, full of fatness; which implieth thus much. Thou shalt have whatsoever may make thy life comfortable, and happy; for as by bread, our daily bread, we are to understand all the necessaries of this life (though bread be the meanest •a•t of our sustenance, yet it it is called the staff of life, because the m•st necessary part of it) so by fatness, we are to understand all things ⟨p. 287⟩delicate and delicious; and those things which are most delicate and delicious, are said to be full of fatness.