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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.
If any would know more distinctly, what the clothing, apparel, or garment of the earth is? I answer,
First, That may be called the earths garment, which grows out of it; the grass, corn, herbs, flowers, trees, all these vegetables are as a garment upon the earth.
Secondly, Not only vegetables, but animals, the beasts of the earth, are as a garment to the earth (Psal. 65.13.) The pastures are clothed with flocks, the valleys also are covered with corn. Corn is to the valleys, what flocks are to the pastures, their clothing.
Thirdly, Artificial things, as well as natural, are also the earths garment. All those fair buildings, Towns and Cities, all those goodly Edifices and Palaces any where raised upon the earth, are they not as a garment to the earth? so then fruits and flowers growing out of the earth, flocks and herds living upon the earth,1