394 Verf. 27. ..in Expojtion upon the Bock: of J o B. Chap. 36. .] hoctgh Phiiotophers have attempted to find out and alligne a reafon in Nature, about this falling of the rain in drops, yet they have not fully attained the reafon why, nor the Manner how,Gód doth this; we mull afcribe itchiefly to thepower, wifdome, and goodnefs ofGod; in ordering it for the benefit of man, yea ofall plane adnira. living creatures.And furelyElikaleads us to confider the wonders bilera et ire- of those things which are common and naturali, to convince us, tene?aim in la that forafmuch as we cannot_ dearly fee the reafon of Chore letter et her ilia fete things we fl. ould take heed of prying into greater and remoter eccñbet dc,N, , i y a 1l:exc: fecrets ;,and he would have job particularly know, that.feeing he could nor find out the way of God in thefe natural things , much kfs'could he find out the way and whole defigne of God in thole his providential dealings With him : He maketh fosàll the drops of water ; and then as it followeth in this verfe, They poordown rain according to the vapour thereof. Though the water be made into drops, yet he doth not fay, they drop down,, but theypour down rain ; that is, the drops fall plentifully ; that frequent expreffion, in Scripture, ofpouring down, every where impiyeth plenty or abundance. The promire ljt fitndit, of pouring out the Spirit to the latter days, notes the abundance of fundenda put- the Spirit that_fhall then be given. The word fignifes alto to gavit a£li e ítempercolatut ft ratite, implying that the rain 1s con.'ained in the Clouds, as it excolatu±, da were in a lineen cloath, which being preffed, diflills the water in fecatui fury. fmal1(lieanis or drops, as it were through a Rrainer. They pour lmber, nimbus down pluvia. Rain. pluvia, There are three words in the Latine, the fîrfI of which notes a -,; t fhowre or gentle rain; the fecond, a Hurray or fierce rain; th oerbiún Iran,fi- third, rain ingeneraíl.Rain, in this place, may be taken in all ór amura in Hi either of thefenotions for at one time or other the Clouds pour plil ftgnif:car, down drops into ali forts of rain. Rain( as 1,faid) is made of va- fe Ot it kluere,quo cerre innuitur pours drawn up, and herehe faith, They par down rain team eO2 du- tharem According to the vapour thereof. plut. !~agius'in There are two forts of vapours;there are dry vapours,and t loiPc Gens vapours; dry vapours ( fay Naturaiifls) are the matter of the wind), and the montl are the matter of the rain ;Now faith elih,e, the
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