chap. 37. .anE.tpofttion up the l3ook of f o a. Verf. 4. 457 founded long, and waxed louder andlouder. Thereare different de grees in the loudnefs of the voice whenGod fpeaks to his people. ire fhould take warning by the light that fhineth, we fhòuld,hearr the fnallefi voice, the firfi whifperings of God, and not put him to his roaring voice. God is faid toroar out ofZion. (fuel 3. 16.) yea,many times he roareth uponZión, besaufe of the difobedience and negligence of the Citizens of Zaon. After it a-voice roareth, the wordsthat folio* 'fpeak the fame thing, He thundereth with the voiceof his excellency. This is the firfltime that we have the word Thunder exprefi,in ú Ton ynlionx the text, though the fence of the whole place Cfeakes thunder. it,commot-us - . The word which fignifieth Thunder, fignifieth any great noireor fuitpr<indig- dreadful cry ( Ezell 27.3S.) -(Pfal.96. i t.) it fignifieth al- nation. fo the voiceof any one that complaineth or bemoatiethhis or her Tediru èf1fra. condition or that is troubled or fretted at the crofnefs of relati- ons lc is Paid of Peninnah, floe provoked her (thatis, Hannah) rumigniwn e fore (or, as the Margin reads it, angred her) for to make herfret, nube erumpen- becaufe the Lord had fhút up her womb : The word' is that of the titan. Plin. . text, to make her thunder, or to carafe a tumultuation in her fpirit, like thatin the Clouds,when heat and cold contend for the matie- Tonitru oft ryes horrendusfo Thunder, is fo unquiet and tumultuous, that any thingwhich is nur in nube fo, may bya figure be called Thunder. The text fpeaks of proper fP halatio ''r9ah e Thunder;and if we enquire amongPhifofophers about the nature neca&. andgeneration of Thunder,fome tell us briefly,Th ander is a cralh. do ¢, ,Teen, ing or cracking noife made by the firoke of enclofed fires breaking cocluftinrra,. through the Clouds. O: thus, Thunder is a dread*. found ina nubem, que thick Cloud, castled by the hot and dry exhalation (hut up to the cumfie'nuu - bowels' of it, which reeking' paffage out makes its own way with F(uerens exi rum, inasna vi- mightÿ violence. olentr eu i io But tlwugh thematter here treatedupon byEíihnbe philofophi- c'r w,u'iquom,- cal, yet Imull remember that mine is a Divinity, no: a P:iilotophy beearre.hutit. Le9ure, and therefore it may fuf'iïce ine to touch there things, :nd prolog. ex leave the Reader, who deliresto know more of them, or ofother Ariaot.lib. 2. tnyfieties in Nature, ttì leek his fatisfaelion io thole learned Au- Meteor. c. y,. thorswho profeffedly handle this fuhjed of Thunder; and (hall here only take notice that Elihu doth not only fay, He thundereth, but He thruedereth N n n rrh
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