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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 12-15
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
They stand; Who stand as a garment? The things of the earth, they stand to look on as a garment. All thing• present themselves before us in a goodly hue, when the Sun riseth; then they appear in their beauty, the whole body of the earth is then clothed to the eye of every beholder.1 As light it self is like a golden robe, which the earth puts off every night, and puts on again every morning; so light shows us all those goodly things, which are the earths robes, or with which the earth is clothed, as with a garment. The earth is, not only as a thing without form, but as a naked thing, as a body without clothing to appearance, till the light appears; but as soon as the light appears, then whatsoever may be called the earths clothing, and apparel, appears also.
They stand; Who stand as a garment? The things of the earth, they stand to look on as a garment. All thing• present themselves before us in a goodly hue, when the Sun riseth; then they appear in their beauty, the whole body of the earth is then clothed to the eye of every beholder.1 As light it self is like a golden robe, which the earth puts off every night, and puts on again every morning; so light shews us all those goodly things, which are the earths robes, or with which the earth is clothed, as with a garment. The earth is, not onely as a thing without form, but as a naked thing, as a body without clothing to appearance, till the light appears; but as soon as the light appears, then whatsoever may be called the earths clothing, and apparel, appears also.
- 1Hoc hemistichium impersonaliter accipio. Sistent sc omnes res tanquam cum vestimento, i. e. ornatissina omnia lucis beneficio apparent, Coc.
If any would know more distinctly, what the clothing, apparel, or garment of the earth is? I answer,