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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
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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 houses and dwellings built on the earth, are a clothing to the earth; and they appear to be so, by the coming forth and appearance of the light; that shows the beauty and figure of the earth, the trimmings and adornings of it: Those things are to the earth, as a rich embroidered garment, and light manifests them to be so.
Thirdly, Artificial things, as well as natural, are also the earths garment. All those fair buildings, Towns and Cities, all those goodly Edifices and Pallaces 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 houses and dwellings built on the earth, are a clothing to the earth; and they appear to be so, by the coming forth and appearance of the light; that shews the beauty and figure of the earth, the trimings and adornings of it: Those things are to the earth, as a rich embroidered garment, and light manifests them to be so.
- 1Ut ea mutata sicut argilla sigillari, sisterentur (illi) vel•• indumento (obducto) Jun. i. e. ut cohiberentur improbi à pergendo & sceleribus suis promovendis, tanquam si obvolverentur panno vultus aut pedes ipsorum ut sequns versus amplius explicat. Jun. Ut mutetur ea sicut lutum cui sigilluxi imprimitur; & sistentur (illi) tanquam (velati) indumento. Ut moris erat velari sontes. Pisc.