Chap 36. e/ir Eapofition upare the Book of J o E. Verf. 7. 3957 they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof; that is, look in Movie. quaff' what proportion the Sun draweth the vapeurs into the Aire, in ware 0Itîdoz that proportion doth the rain fall upon the Earth or, in the ramie p uæ fununc proportion that the vapour is drawn up, in that proportion is the IA, t rt fig rain let down. neliula:n u+. Some render the word which we tranflate vapour, a c?oud,that Pile: is, after the water is drawn up into a Clou:', it pours down rain 1 Jgmiicat proportionably. Another tranflation renders it, fl.èdi /n or trou- bRn:Yer, ficue ble , and give the whole verfe thus ; Flo draweta up thedrops of erieatr calimti- water,wbicb poured down rain to their Calamity. This the learned intern; bine. Author. applyeth pattïcularly to the Flood in Nah; rinse ; but I ' erf4 stn ver- íhall not Ray upon that. Our reading is clear ; ?hey pour down trz z.J },fl s.a° rain according to the vapour thereof ; that is, in the tame prorort - quarum, qua on that vapours come up, the rain falls down. f:ndebani plu Fir(}, In that, as the rain is made of the vapour, fo according yearn ad cala. to the vapour, or in proportion to the vapour, fuch are the mitstem ejur. íliowres of rain ; Note ; Jun: according to what is naturally received, return! are natural- ly made. And if the Clouds of Heaven return to man naturally accord- ing to that they receive from the Earth ; how is man on earth bound morally,or in duty,ro return according to what he receives from Heaven. Let us mind our aecordi'gs and proportions to the dealings anddifpenfadons of God. The Clouds of the aire will condemn us, at least witnefs againil us, if we receive much, and return little. I pafiè this. Only here we may take notice of fix things in Concatination one with another : First, vapours are drawn up from the Earth : Secondly, they are made into watery Clouds: "Thirdly, from thence they are lent back to moifien the Earth : Fourthly, the rain fent down is proportionable to the va- pour that went up: Fifthly, according to that proportion, the Earth is made more or 'elk fruitfull ; plentiful! rains caufe or produce "plentiful! fruits ordinarily from the Earth, and little rains little fruits : Sixthly, and laftly, man is nourished and bath his outward Comforts encreafed or leflened in proportion to the fruitswhich the Earth bringeth forth, or to the fruitfulnefsof the Earth. 'All there things attend and depend upon one another. They poordown according to the vapour thereof, and God drawsup E e e z in
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