754 2..6. finBxpolitionupan thelook cf j OB. Verf. 7. N }ra:w,arri, or theNorthern heavens, Again, the North maybe taken for the ,aì le heavensby a Synechdoche: asel 7 b might !peak ofthe North becaufe the North pote was neereft the cli- mise where he dwelt, He ffrrrchetb out the North, cr the:aerthern heavers, that is, the whole heavens, both theNorth and South! Eait and Weil. He fireteheth out the North cuir the empty place. What is this empty pace ? Firft, By the empty place, force underfiand the molt remote and uninhabited places Of the earth : He over_fpreects them with heavens, and difpofeth things there as well as here,he (preach the' heavens over thofe parts where there is no Haan,& fo may b cal- lcd,Empty places, becaufe uninhabited, or not fiït'd with men. God caufetlo it-to raine on the earth where no »tan tc,©n the Wilder - nefs,where there it no manas he fpeaketh of himfelf to 74 in the 38. Chapter ofthis book, ver. z6,) Now as God raineth upon thc>fe (in this fence) empty prices, fo he ifretcheth out the hea- vens over thefe er pty places, that is, he takes care of them as well as of thoftechat are pe }pled or inhabited. Secondly, Rather, by the empty flute, we are to underfland the ayre, for in the.natural di`pofirion or fyifeame ofthe world, the earth is Iowei?, the water neat, the ayre is the third, and the fire fourth, over which God ttr:tchethout the heavens And be- caule nothing is vifi'.hle to ur, up garde on this tille heaven but the arye, therefore it may wel b laid, that he firetcheth out the ea-. veni immediately over the ayre, or the empty place. Super inane, But is the ayre or that place which we rail the ayre empty. ? quod juxra tom' no, the ayre is not empty, there is no vacuity, no em ty place in e" e,; nä °: nature ; and nature will put it fettle into arcing: courfes to avoid cet. Vulgo enim a vacuity ; water will afcend to avoid vacuity,and it will not der- titan fparïum a tend to avoid vacuity but though the ayre he not empty or terra ufque ad void :, taking emptineffe ffrietly and philofophically (for every pleaur,JcTe its a filling b called an enipoy slate; wh largely we oine vulgarly, a plenum aee y y ',tri l p , fir. roome where there is no artificial furniture, we fay it is an ernp. ty roorne : fo the (pace between us and the heavens in a vulgar fence it an empty place. The Scripture fpeakes often ofthings ac- cording to the vulgar acceptation anduuderftanding,Mr.Brougÿ- to,v
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