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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 28-30
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.
We heard of the Dew at the 19th verse of the 29th Chapter, where Job (to set forth the prosperity of his former condition) said, The Dew lay all night upon my branches. Vapours drawn up from the earth in the day by the heat of the Sun, are returned in Dew by the moderate coolness and stillness of the night. The remote efficient cause of Dew is the heat of Heaven raising vapours from the earth. The next efficient cause of Dew is the temperate coolness and quietness of the night; for if the night be windy the Dew falls not; and if the night be very cold, the vapours are congealed and hardened into a frost. 'Tis only in temperate seasons, that we find those drops of Dew hanging like so many Orient Pearls upon the grass, leaves and Flowers, at once adorning and refreshing them.1 We may take notice of two things in the falling of the Dew.
We heard of the Dew at the 19th verse of the 29th Chapter, where Job (to set forth the prosperity of his former condition) said, The Dew lay all night upon my branches. Vapours drawn up from the earth in the day by the heat of the Sun, are returned in Dew by the moderate coolness and stilness of the night. The remote efficient cause of Dew is the heat of Heaven raising vapours from the earth. The next efficient cause of Dew is the temperate coolness and quietness of the night; for if the night be windy the Dew falls not; and if the night be very cold, the vapours are congealed and hardned into a frost. 'Tis only in temperate seasons, that we find those d•ops of Dew hanging like so many Orient Pearls upon the grass, leaves and Flowers, at once adorning and refreshing them.1 We may take notice of two things in the falling of the Dew.
- 1Vapours sereno tempore medium aeris regionem ascendentes resolvuntur frigore in guttas tenues. Arist. l. de mund. c. 1. Plin. l. 2. c. 60.Vapores sereno tempore medium aeris regionem ascendentes resolvuntur frigore in guttas tenues. Arist. l. de mund. c. 1. Plin. l. 2. c. 60.