Chap. 36. an txpoftron upon theBoo of Jos. Verf. 29. J O B, Chap. 36. Verf. 29, 30, 3 T. 29. Afo,can any underhand thefpreadings of the Clouds, or the noife ofhis Tabernacle ? 30. Behold, hefpreadethhis light upon it, and co- vereth the bottomof the fea. 31. For by them hejudgeth thepeople he giveth meat in abundance. Lrhu having fpoken of the wonderfull work of God in form- ing and fending rain in the two former verles, fpeaks next of the Clouds, which are as veffels containing the rain , and in which the rain is carried and conveighed úp and down the world . for the tire of man, or for chofe fervices ,to which God bath ap- poynred it. He begins with a denying Queltion: Verf. 29. Alfo,can anyunder(and the (reading of the Clouds? As if he had laid, To what I Paid before, I adde this, Here is another fecret innature, Can any underfla»d the fpreadind of the Clouds ? He doth not fay, can vulgar ignorant and unlearned per- Eons underhand, but can any ? Can the wilefl ? can the Hoff learn- ed ? Can the beh tludied Philofophers urderfland the fpreading of the Clouds ? Can they underfiand ? That is, they cannot under - Rand. But have nor men, elpecially learned men, underhanding e- nough to afcend the clouds, and difcover the nature of them ? Surely their undetflandings are very mean,or very much cloud- ed, who underhand not what the Breading of the clouds mean- eth. I I anfwer, though Ehh/s's queflion bath a negation in ir,.yer nor a total negation, h.dorh not exclude the underflanding of men wholly out of the clouds ; he only denieth man a full underhand- ing of all things which concern either the nature or motion or rho clouds. Wife men underhand much about the leadingof the clouds, but they cannot underhand all. The bell of godly men undo hand not much, or lee but a little way into fpirirual things,; And the wifea of worldly men do nor,, cannor, fee all in natural things., 399
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