S7© Verf. a 8. fvfnENpofition upon the-Book of J o a. Chap. 37. without drynefs ; 'tis cornp*, yet without moynnefs ;'tis dia- phanous andpellucid, yet without pores, or thole fmall and un- fenfible holes, whereby fweat and vapours Pars out of the body. So then the Scripture calls Heaven grongor firme , nor as gloffe , bodyes are called firme and nrong, but becanfe of its perpetual continency and ( as to nature ) indiffolubility ; which doth the more highly advance and commend the powerof God, who bath given it a ftreno:,th and flannel's, beyond that of Rocks and Ada- rnants : For how fluid and moveable foever the Heavens are to view, yet they are the mat tfrong and durable part of the whole Creation. Haft thouwith himfpread out the Sky which is firong, .dn'tl at a molten 'Looking-Glorffe, Some read there words as an entire renrence , Which isfirong- eu a moltenLoebing-Glafe, So Mr Broughronfotddli thou make a Firmament withhimof theAir,fetled at Glaffe molten ? We pur it ditii-elly in twoparts, which isfirms, and as a m /ten Looking- ?ova, veteres Glaff e. Some of the old Poets tiled a like Epithete concerning Xotrtfoi, ?Tx- Heaven, they called it , The Brazen Heaven. What the Lord acfc, appeib- threatens as a judicial ,ffl ction ( Dealt. 28.23.) The Heaven runt. tkat is over thine head(hall be Braffe , that Heaven refembles in its natural Contliitt. ion, 'fis like B affe, or like a moltenLooking- Claire, by reafon of it fhining brightnefs. That which we com- monlycall Glafs,or a Looking- Glats is molten :of which we read ( Ex 11 38. ) (..911fet made the Brazen Laver of the Laskin . Globs oftheWomen. The godlywomen among the jewel made a better ure of their Loolcing-Glarreq, than to drefs themfelves by, they offered them to the fervice 01 Gd in the Tabernacle. ritt, One of the Jewiflr Do&ors warns us ro confider that the word dere;inde vifus which we render a Look'ng-Glab may he taken for a look, or for fPcculum- the appearance ofa thing : As if ne had laid, The Heavens are not tkaly: only Wong, but cleare, lookino like or being look , G on, e a ju Lb: rad: o thing that is molten. ,Glaffe is a diaphanous fplen,fid body, we may fee through ir, or fee the reprefentation if obje&s in it. Thus the Heavensare arong as tieeleAnd cleareas amolten Look. ing-Glaffe. HefIce obr-rve ; Firft , The Heaven: are ¿arable, they are firon7, Secondly,
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