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

These treasures of hail are of the same nature with those of snow, and so to be understood as the former; but there is a difference in the form of snow and hail, though not in the matter out of which snow and hail are formed. Hail (say Naturalists) is a hot vapour, drawn up to the middle region of the air, whence falling, it is frozen in passage into lesser or greater stones or grains of ice. These hail-stones are sometimes poured down so great in quantity, and often in such great quantities, that it may well be said, there are treasures of them. And when the Lord puts this question to Job, Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail? he seems to allude to those who inspect the public treasure of any Kingdom or Common-wealth, receiving in and issuing out the revenues of it, as occasion requires, and as they are required. As if the Lord had said, Hast thou, O Job, like some great Lord Treasurer, taken a view of these stores? I know thou wilt confess thou hast not seen them with thy bodily eyes; I know also thou hast not reached them clearly with the eye of thy mind or understanding; even those treasures are greater than thou canst imagine. All that which thou hast any way seen, is less than the least part of that which thou hast not seen. Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail?

These treasures of hail are of the same nature with those of snow, and so to be understood as the former; but there is a difference in the form of snow and hail, though not in the matter out of which snow and hail are formed. Hail (say Naturalists) is a hot vapour, drawn up to the middle region of the air, whence falling, it is frozen in passage into lesser or greater stones or grains of ice. These hail-stones are sometimes powred down so great in quantity, and often in such great quantities, that it may well be said, there are treasures of them. And when the Lord puts this question to Job, Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail? he seems to allude to those who inspect the publick treasure of any Kingdom or Common-wealth, receiving in and issuing out the revenues of it, as occasion requires, and as they are required. As if the Lord had said, Hast thou, O Job, like some great Lord Treasurer, taken a view of these stores? I know thou wilt confess thou hast not seen them with thy bodily eyes; I know also thou hast not reacht them clearly with the eye of thy mind or understanding; even those treasures are greater than thou canst imagin. All that which thou hast any way seen, is less than the least part of that which thou hast not seen. Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail?