Verf. t. Chap, 37. an Expoj/tion sipon the Book, of .1-0 B. - rians from a word (vehewentia) noting the vehement or forcible motion of it, or as others( a veniendo) from aword fgnifying to come, bec:fe it comes this way and that way,at times'every way;, or as our bleffed Saviour expreffeth it ('iohn 3. li. ) 7he wind bloweth where it lfleth, and then hearefl thefound thereof, but cnnfb' not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth. The fupream or fupernatural caufe, both making and modera- ting or governing the wind, is God himfelf:For though that text in the Holy Gofpel laa mentioned faith, The wind bloweth where itlifleth, yet is tobe underiloodonly in reference to man; it bloweth where it lifleth,for all man, man can neither dire& ir, nor cont; oule or check it. But as to God, the wind bloweth where he lilterh, notwhere lt felflifieth ; 'tis he whogathereth the wind in hisfills( Pro. 3o. 4..) ' Tis he who bringeth them out ofhis treafisres (Dial. 13 5.7. ) The natural remote caufe of thewind , is the powerof the Sun and S.arrs(as Philofophers well agreeing with reafon terll us) drawing up thole exhalations,and attenuating them into a ñtnefs for that purpofe. i fie natural, neere, or next caufe (fay they):of the winds,is the coldnefsof the mied Region, which will not fufter the afpiring exhalation ro ife higher,but thrufis it back, and fo it moves hi- ther or thì.ther,fine -n, ife,or along this lower Region of the air to- wards the Earth, doing thole fervices, and fomtimes firange ex- ployts, with whichexperience acquaints us Gaily. By this Meteor, the wind, the life of man is in a great meafure maintained. For though it be a truth, than no man can live (as we fay) by the air yet it is as true, that no nun can live "without the air : Did twit the Lungs infpire and expire, draw in and fend out freffa air, man would footle be fufi;ocated and dye ; and 'Lis moil certain, that the he, and blood, and whsle body of man, are very much af..&ed, according to the nature of the wind or ai-,ìn which they breath.Plinie cells uyhat man may live.vrirhov..t' food fevendnyes,but no man can live one hou°e,b ink rrholy inter - cluded fromwind and air. And hence the Latine word ( anima) which fignihies the foul, not only as to the fubtlince of it-, ( which is immortal ) but as to ; he fubfifience of it -in the by>dy (in which refpe& 't is mortal, being no,nsore than life, this -vo d lay in the Latine ) is fuppofed to come from that Greek word (dvouos which 599
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