Verf: a7. an Expo.frtion upan the Roo of Jo B. Chap. slí, Forma duali, frgntftcantur aqueduplices. Of water. The word is of the Deal. Number in the Hetbrew, and fo it lignifies both fórts of water ; the waters of heaven, and the wa- ters of,the earth, the upper and the nether waters, the upper wa- ters in the Clouds,and the nether waters in the Springs.- We find them fpoken-of together in the firt of Genebs: at the 7th verte ; God divided the waters which were under the firmaments from the waters which were above the firmament. We find the upper wa- ters fpoken of Tingly ( Pfd. l o +. 3.) who layefi the beams of the chambers in the raters ; Chambersare above. And in the fftrfi of Generis at the 9th verte, we find the-lower watersalone ; Let the Fta$!í Felo. waters begathered together render the heavens. Under-heaven Wa- exponir , ters are the lower waters. One of the Rabbies renders the words VR -v, thus; He multiplietbthe draps of rain; and the reafon of it is muiri }itar,guia (which falls-in with ourtranflacton) becaufe the lets anyone thing cá;rmiraSutra- is made, the more is the generalmais, out of which it is made, umaqux deci- multiplied. dent multipli- From the words thus far opened, we may note fomewhat for camer. Mere. our inhruaion. Taking the former fignification of the words, He draweth up the drops of water, Pluvia efl va por cal idus hur,tiduT ex a- yetis das locis hu- midir viYtute Solis & 5telfa- rum,tfyueàd - median aeris -regiorsemelev,i- tus, yibipro- pte-'lotirlblr- carom in nubem costdenfttua, dye. Gárc, de Meteorol.pact çap.sÿ. Obferve ; The ordinary rain which watereth the earth, isfirfi fetched from the earth. God taifeth vapours from the earth, and then watereth the earth with them. Aline rainwhich falls upon the earthwas rail- ed from the earth. If I were to anfwer that queflion in nature, what is Rain ? I might refolve it thus; Rain is them'otfitireofthe earth, drawnup by theheat of the Sun, into the middle Regionn of the Air,wbich being there condenfedinto clouds, is afterwards at thewill of God, di¡folved, anddropt dawn again ist ¡bowers. The Clouds, at the command of God, hold fall, and at his command they break and let out their waters upon the earth. This is, as was tauche be- fore, a very ordinary, yet a very admirable work of God. As in . fpirituals, all thofe aas of grace in faith, and love, and joy, &c. by-whichottr hearts and (óuls a -e carried up to heaven, come flirt from heaven ; fo that rain which comesdown upon us from hea- yen
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