$ Chap. 24. An Expofition ssp>n the Booi¿of J B. Verf. 8. off the skin from their flefh, and the flsíh from off their bones. But, to the words ofthe text ; They have ne Covering in the cold. This bath in it a double Inhumanity ; Ertl, to expofe them to extreame paine, and then to extreame fharne. Not co have a co- vering is to be expofed to flame, not to have a covering in the cold is to be expofed to paine. But what becomes of the pore when they are naked, and have no covering is the coid.Thenext yule informes us about that. Verf. 8, Theyare wet with tGe flbowers of the mountains, and embrace the rockfor want ofa ¡helter. Here'sthe thift therepoor hearts are put to, they are wet with the ¡bowersof themountains ; that word which we render wet, is onely found in this place in the old Teftament; it notes not onely to be dafht with raine, but to be foakt thorough with it. We ufe to fay of thole who are very wet,that they are wet to the skin, but there being naked had nothing to wet but their skin,and their skin was (ifit might be) (baked through with the wet, or they were thorough-wet with theAnvers of the mountains, that is, with chofe (havers which they meet with upon the moon- taines ; (bowers gather about high mountaines,thcre theClouds engender raine, and there the fhowers are bred. Travellers ob- E,i mom qWa ferve by the eye; how Clouds gather about the tops ofmoon. lector, nudita= mines, and that the raine broods there. This is a further addition lis remedinm to the Crueltyofoppreffors, and the mifery ofthe oppreffed ; ji itte áuí veni they took away their Cloaths,and turned them out of their hou- fes naked into the open ayre, and left them to contend with cold rimenrHrrr non P } lia6er, faltern andhunger, with all varieties ofweather and danger among the operímento de, mountains. It is force help to a man, if he have noCloaths to mt+a non costar. cover him, yet to have a houfe to cover him ; but to have neither body- cloaths, nor bed-cìoa.hs, nor houle, nor harbour, how fad is this ! And being thus helpleffe, the next words (hew us what a poore fhift they made. They embrace the reek for want of a ¡helter. When he faith, Theyembrace ähe reek, his meaning isàhey make
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