Chap. 4 r . t/9n Expofitionupon the Book.of f a. Vet. t 8, 741 the greateff outward prosperity, in care they kept a true Faa, faith, Then (hall thy light break. forthas the morning. And when the Prophet Amos defcribes God, making the morning darknefr (Chap. 4. 13. ) As alto, turning the fhadow ofdeath into the morning (Chap. 5.8.) his meaning is,that the Lord can eafily,and at plea[ure, change a (late of greatefR profperity, into adverfity; and a Hate of deepen adverfity, into cleare(l or higheff prof-pe- rky. But force may fay, if the Lord intended to let forth the ex- ceeding clearnefs of Leviathans eyes, it might feem more proper to have compared them to the light at noon-day, than to the morning light. I antwer, Though the light at noon-day is clearer than that in the morning, confidered in it fell ; yet confdering the morning light, with refpe& to its neernefs or neighbourhood to the fore- going darknefs, fo we are more fenfible of that than of the light at noon-day. Contraries placed neer together, illufirate each other. For, as loon as the morning appears, light conveysit felt all over the Hemifphear, and makes a wonderful change in the Air. The morning light coming fuddenly, and immediately af- ter dilmal darknefs, affes us more than the light at noon-day, ftrdenrer ocu. though greater and clearer. Leviathans eyes aline bright, even lof fi+f ,Ebb like the eye-lids or eyes, that is, the light of the morning. The fanguine Q Ancients give report , that Dragons and Serpents have (laming igne. Virg. eyes. t. This (faithBochartus) is very true of the Crocodile, whole Exj11t in fit" eyes are fo bright, that the Egyptians ufed to paint a Crocodiles cum an. eye, when they would liignifie themorning light ; whereas great torquet. Virg, Authors write, that the eyes of the Whale are even covered i.3.Georg. with the weight of their eye- brows, or with far, and are little bigger than the eyes of famefort of bullocks ; whence it comes topats, that the Whale lofog his guide, daiheth againif rocks and Oral na 7u co. Sea-ffhállows. Thus he. Towhich I (hall only oppofe the tefli- ú0,,,;n,en pony of no incon(iderable Writer, who affirms of the Whales rummodo;rro- in the Seas of Norway , that their eyes in the night-time rul enim v f d aline like a huge flame , fo that the fifher-men, who àre Aifcaróribur, abroad at Sea, judge them to be great fires. And to what Braude peutan. Bochartur faith of the Whale, that he is fo dim- lighted when rur4Olaus deep in the Sea, that he cannot find his way without a guide, I tib.21, c.5. may
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