An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

The word rendered Influences, signifies Delights, or delicacies,¹ or delicate fruits; and therefore that Garden full of sinless pleasures, which God himself planted for man in his state of primitive innocency and felicity, is called from this word, the Garden of Eden, (Gen. 2.15.) that is, a place of delight, commonly known by the name of Paradise; and hence we well translate sweet Influences: the Hebrew is Delights.² Mr. Broughton translates Delicacies; and the interlineal, Canst thou bind the delicate fruits that Pleiades brings forth? That is, the green herbs, the flowers, with other delicacies and delights which accompany the Spring: canst thou hinder their budding or appearing at Spring-time? When the deformity & dirt of Winter depart or pass away, then there is a new face of things, then every bush flourisheth, then the trees and fields put on their ornaments, then the singing of birds fills the Air, and makes it resound with their harmony and melodious music. The word is rendered Dainties (Gen. 49.20.) and an adverb coming from this, is used (Lam. 4.5.) They that did fare delicately, are desolate in the streets. As also (1 Sam. 15.32.) Agag came unto him delicately. Canst thou bind the sweet Influences Of Pleiades?

The word rendred Influences, signifies Delights, or delicacies,¹ or delicate fruits; and therefore that Garden full of sinless pleasures, which God himself planted for man in his state of primitive innocency and felicity, is called from this word, the Garden of Eden, (Gen. 2.15.) that is, a place of delight, commonly known by the name of Paradice; and hence we well translate sweet Influences: the Hebrew is Delights.²