Chap. 22. An Expoftion upen the Boc(rf J OB. Verf i z. 117 5.) Looke now towards Heaven, and tell the Starresif those be able to number them ; andhe fetid santo him, To fhall thyfeed be.'Tis mat ter of wonder that God fhould make fo many of thole emi- nent Lights, that he fhould let up fo many flaming torches in heaven for man to fee his way, and work byon earth. That God who hath fpread this Canopie over our heads, fhould alto em- broyder it with fuch a multitude of Golden fpangles, which render it as much our delight, as it is our duty, to behold them. Secondly,Behold the Starres in their order;they move by rule, they keep their rankes, none of themgoe out of their place, at forfake their Ration. They who are skilled in the motion ofthe Starres, know where to have them a hundred years hence. In the 5th of judges, it is faid,The Starres in their courfes fought agairf Sifrara. Thirdly, We fhould confider the Starres in their magnitude; what vaft bothes they are ; Some of them are bigger then the wholebody ofthe earth (as Philofophy teacheth us) though, to appearance not bigger then the blafeofa candle,nor broader then the palme of a hand, Fourthly, Confider alto the difference of the Starres in their greatneffe, and magnitude, they are all great, but not all ofa greatnaffe, not all of one fire. Afironorners divide the Starres into fix magnitudes. We fhould likewife ohferve, and wonder at their light, which is their glory : the light of the Starres is the glory of the Staates, and fo the more light any Starre hath, the more glory it bath. Thus one Starrediffereth from another Starre inglory (i Cor. 15. 41.)But I (hall not flay upon thefe things, having fomewhat largely upon them at the 9th Chapter, v. 9. Whether 1 referre the Reader. Onely note here, that as theStarres ofheaven are of feverall degrees ; God bath not !evell'd them, either in light or magnitude fo he bath diverfly diftributed the light ofparts, and gifts; ofuri derftanding, and knowledge, of ettate and power, to and a- mong the childrenof men here on earth. 'Tis good for alla that all are not alike ;. The univerfe could not be either fo beautifull,or fo orderly, if every particular had the fame beau- ty, or were ofthe fameorder. And he that cannot be content to have letTe, and ro be leffer then another, is altogether urfir, not
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