426 Verf. 3 3. qqn E.rpoftion upon the fool of J ©B. Chap. 36. bath alwayes (hewed men there fhowres were coming ; and vs, hetta people growweary. of tneir warnings, when they grow more prophane and wicked under them, this is a fute f gn, a fatal prognofiick, that God is coming with-a f:ow,wre of wrath, and is rea.ty to pour do,vn a form of ven_eance upon them. And lure - ly Chef warnings, both with reCpeet to natural changes in the Air,and civil changes in the affairs ofthis Wo Id, argti_ the won- derful goodneff of God,that he would have us prepare fo all dif- peo a :ions : i-Í:ß will no: fend a iho.^vre of rain, bu would have us prepared ro. it ; and when he is about to fend chofe great fliowrs of Judgm-nt upon the áorld,He would have his people ready and prepared, andthe e fore by f,onemeans or other he tells them'be- fore hand That is at hind yzc,y Tnus,rne noyfe thereof fneweth conce ning ic,or telleth us the form is coming. But is there nothing elfe that fore-tels this ? Yes, it followeth, The cartel-alf e cencereing.th e vispsur. The very beafi of the field give nótice of the vapour.The He- brew is that which goeth up,fo we read in the margin. The rain cornes down, and the vapours go up ; and the going up of the va- pour is an argument of rh.-`doming down of the rain. As the noire or thunder in the Couds fore-f leweth af}ond fo the cattel con- cerning the vapour, they tell us'the rain is coining down 'by their apprehenfion of the vapour which goeth up. Some render, not vapour,but plants or herbs,trees or áafs,thefe goup pr aCcend out of the earth,as J.rell asvapours O ar trñn arron is plain. The cartel afo, the very (1 -cep and o en,yea the fowles of the air will tell when we (hall have foul wei her ; before filch formes come ufually they run to father, hiding and (ifting for thernfelves aswell a, they t'an, again he form. Cattel prefage Plinius, lib. rain. Pliny in his Narùral Hif#o °y + >eaks much of the natural raga- as. c. 35. Na- city that is in beafis,r.. ine , !e_ n and o er:,whereby they perceive aural Hrf pry. change of weather. The Foo gil altovealas largely and acu- Virg 1íu, ri rarely of chefe things; reporting how husbandrnen that keep cartel B will gather by what they fee in the cartel what the weather will be. The cattel alfo Concerning the vapour. Hence
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