Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 6:30

30 Wherefore if God so cloth the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more cloth you, O ye of little faith?

From Sensitive Creatures, our Lord proceedeth to▪ Vegetables, an order of Creatures which have more then meer being, they have also Life, tho no Sense, but yet 2 Degrees beneath Man, wanting not only Reason but Sense. He shews us from an instance in these, that we have no more reason to be troubled and anxious about Clothing, then about Meat, or Drink. Clothing is of no other use, then for Warmth or Ornament, for such Clothing as will serve us for Warmth, a little care will serve the Turn, Sudamus ad Supervacanea, our Sweating thoughts are mostly for Superfluities in Clothing, if God see them fit for us, he will also give us them, without so many thoughts about them. Look upon the Lilies (whether he means what we call Tulips, or other Flowers called Lilies, which probably those Countries had in greater Variety and Beauty, is not worth the arguing) God designing to glorify himself in those Creatures, tho of meanest orders, hath given them a greater Beauty, then Solomon had in all his rich Array. To let us know that Art must not contend with Nature, and that Beauty and Glory in Apparel is no more then is to be found in Creatures much inferiour to our order, which made Solon (tho an Heathen) prefer the sight of a Peacock, to that of Croesus; and therefore this is a thing not worthy of any Anxious thoughts, for if God seeth such things good for us, he that so Clotheth the Grass of the Field, which is but of a few days Continuance, will much more Cloth us, and if we distrust him for such Provision, we shew our selves Persons of little Faith.