s06 Chap. 38. an Expofätión upon the Book of J o "a. Vert*, Z6. In the two next vertes the Lord Ihewes the reafon,why he thus divides a water-courfe for the over -flowing of waters, and a way for the Lightning ofThunder ; it is, Ve: f. 26. To eaufe it to rain ce the earth where no man is, on the Wild ernef; where there is no man. Rain is the -ufual concomitant or fpeedy fubrequenc of Light- ning and "Fancier ; there give warning that rain is at hand. Thunder and Lightning break the Cloud, and fo caufe it, that is, the cloud, to rain Opon the earth where noman is, &c. TheLotd (peaks here of a fptcial place, to which he deigns the'Rain : where fhould that be ? Surely the paliures, and tül'd grounds, gardens, and vineyards, places cultivated and inhabited by men ; the Lord bath Rain for them, yet not all for them, or not for them all . -Here theCargo or lading of the clouds is con- figned to places uninhabited by man ; He caufeth it to rain on the earth where no man is. Some Parts of the earth are full ofmen, well inhabited ; there areother parts of the earth which are and inhabited, or where no man is. This Text tells us, there is an earth where no man is. Travellers and Navigators have found fome Parts of the earth which were counted uninhabitable, not only habitable, buta&ually inhabited by many people. Yet there may be fome Parts of the earth habitable in their own nature, whereinno mandwells, or in which (as the Text (peaks ) noman is. Yea poflïbly there are Tome Parts of the earth uninhabitable, or wherein no man can dwel. Now is it not ftrange that the Lord flould carry his rain to fuch parts of the earth, to places where no man is ? where there are neither Cities, nor Towns, nor Vil- lages, no nor the rtneanefl Cottages, nor a man breathing on the face of that earth ? er that, as the latter part of the verte fpeaks, ( whichis but an explication of the fame thing ) be fhould cattle it to rain on the Wildernefs, where there is no man ? If we would know what the Lord intends by earth where no man is, the Text anfwers, The Wildernefa where there is neman, or, where none of Adam dwelletb, as Mr. Broughton tranflates. So then this latter claufe of the verte is but a repetition of the fame thing, yet a re- petition made not only for variety and elegancy, but alto ro fig- -ruc`it7
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