542 Ver{ 15. Expo,.dt.on upon the Book of J o B. Chap4- 37, from or upon the Cloud, caufeth that Meteor, whicwc call the Rainbow;and therefore its emphatically expcet1 by this circumlo- cution,the (Fining of the light of his Cloud. Toe (läining light of the Riiñbow hach in it a great appearance of Go',for the h.lp,; alva- tion,and deliverance of his people,'tis a token of the gooti-wiii of God to man.And that we fhould rather expound this place of the Rainbow, than either of the Lightning, or the Sun-ibine s I flail briefly give thefe foure Reaf©ns, upon which I ground the Expo- fition. Fìrfì, Elihta had fpoken of the Lightning andof the Sun- (!dine inthe former parts of his difcourfe, and therefore it is not pro- bable that he Mould return to either 16 loon. Secondly, In this whole philofophical Leaure of E'liLu, wherein he enters inro the treafures of rhefe lower Heaven,, there is no mention at all of the Rainbow, unlefs we fix it ui'on this place ; therefore feeing he had fpoken of the Ligh_ning and of the Sun- thine, in the former parts of his diicourfe, and (peaks not at all afterward of the Rainbow, it is moll probable that he intendsit here. Thirdly, He is fpeaking of the wonders of God in the Clouds; and furely his difcourfe would have been imperfe&, if he had ' 4Y;irablliuns omitted this, which as foe exprefs ir, is the croft wonderful! of sniraóiÌ- wonderful! thingsamong the Cle ;ssdr, andone of the great fecrets worn Nature in Nature ; I fay he fhould have omitted a great part of that mown. . which belongs to the do&rine ofthe Meteors ( all Meteorological Greci votant Writers-particularly handling this Dujrine of the Rainbow') if dnrinnidem Thou- it be not found here. tths lUJtO ,,,,,ta e; We may take a fourth Rearon of this ixpoítion, becaufe this abadoiratione, light is laid to Thine in his Cloud t° true, all Clouds are his, rum admirabi- that is,Gods Clouds ; but the Cloud inwhich the Rainbow Both tomfigural in at anytime appear;isin a ray of pcculiarity and higher fignifr :acre a ,primat. cancy called theCloud of God,or G.ds Cloud. All the Clouds areas Gods Bow, out:of which he +,oes hi; Arrows andBoite ;They are all() called the Seat ofq xr hr_ fitterh as upon his Throne, Again;they 'are called h:r ( har.ot, b them he rideth in his Major. flv;bur the Rairb) v- cloucd,is,a, ir were,the Royal Robs or Diadem, of God, the ("pedal Clothing of God. The Lord faith at the i 3th werfe of the 9th of Genel c where we have the firth mention of the Rainbow . I dofee my Bow in the Cloud'; the Bow is Gods, and the
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