Chap.. 37; an Exporitien earn the úool`of! o 2. Vert. 3. 444 plain, by what followeth in the latter -part of the verfe, where the Lightning is exprefly rnentionec, that he meanes the Thunder or the Thunder-bolr, for the Clouds are, in that cafe; charged with bolts : we have had many dreadful infiances, as well in arcLnc Hiftories, as in our own rime, Of Thunder -bolts like Bullets f1LGt from the Clouds. As.if Elihuhad faid, Whither- foevcr the-Thun der-bolt goeth, to what quarter of the world foever'Lis d.efigned, it receives commii ion and direEtion fromGrid, what to do, and where to fall, whom it (1 all finite, or what nark it tliaïl hit ; He direElefb it under the whole heaven, And his Lightning to the ends ofthe earth. Nàturalifls define or defcribe Lightning thu ; 'i is a bright Fu /Burfeu co- sinin (waled by exhalations fired in and violentl brea in oat c rsfclan e1 the Clouds. The Hebrew is, his light. The Sun is the fountainof doab enlsata- Lîght, nd that is eminently Gods Light ; but the Light here ipo_ tioniiu*ac en- ken of, is not the ordinary Light in the Air, by the- rifing f`' è nubii- of the Sun ; this Light is Ligh ning , which is a fudden flailing, oentF- or breaking forth oflight from the Clouds ; as when a gun i; fired Aria. z. ^A or difcharged, a light fiafheth from it; fuch is that which Authors teor, cal, 9. of all fo;ts call Lightning , and here the Scripture ca:ls his.Light- ning, At the 3d Verle the Thunder was called his Voice, the Voice of God ; and" in this, the Lightning is called his Lightning ; Llihu appropriates it unto God himfelf, his L:ghtninç. This Lightning hath more than light in it, it bath heat and fire in it ; though we do not-alwayes feel ir,yet many have ,the effeOts of heat and fire appearing fadly upon them. And this is fuch a fire as wa- tercannot quench ; and therefo e we of en read in Scripture, of k al n1ui Lightning joyned with the R iin ( Pfal. a 3 S, 7, fer, I o. I 'y r.a in cavtiire a fer. 5I. 16.) which may be remark't as one of the wonders o> it. fú'51t;&rnr- There is a fecond, that the Ligh-ring is laid to fall froit heaven. "l tíI<Prrst- When the difciples brought a repo: t back toCh: id what g-e.,t b things they had done,whatconquefls they hadgot over evil fpìrirs, çsrite ,t i i Ch rt anfwered ( Lake I o.I A.) I fast/ Satan like L ghtnin f.4ll nerdrate, qua from heaven. Lightning falls from heiven ; for tho;igh Lightning excitttna;nthd of its own nature (being fiery ) (hnuld afcend, yet it defcen.?s " °9ue d brire- through the power of God. Naturalifts obterve it as a wonder, Lnquatur, quMt dìvrta eíii vir- that the Lightning (hould de'cend : Seneca demon`t-ates, it could tu: tRft, se- osot be, unlefs there were a div;ne power in it, that the Lightning new... Mmm fhould
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