8'4 Chap. 26. An Espojitionupon The Book4 JOB Vert, i 3, rarro men difindly,or by name,as the Agent in the original confli;ution of f+mplium m.- all things.And the Hebrew word(rendred inour tranflhtionme . ti- m denotat ved,the Spirit of G,dmavedupon the face ofthe watert)by which fed qualem co- han the Agency of the Spirit in that Great work is expreff,d, carry. ba pt,frcit rumnzu ad ex- eth in it a very accurate fignifcancy ofthat formative verrue or f1adendwm pu/ power which theSpirit Fut forth about it. For is is a metaphor los 'rabat taken from birds who tic upon their eggs to hatch and bring. nab: Selom: forth th: it young ones; and fo ìmporteth the ell-dual( working vebn"n ran- flu ++m aó av of the Spirit, whereby that confuted mafì°e or heap was drawn i ou: and formed up into thofe feverall creatures f ecifyed by M- b4.4 Ibrre Ju.a P P anc;,bantrbtte, ¡et in the Hiftory of the Creation; Among which we find the Jun: garnifhing ofthe heaven', fpoken ofhere k 7cb, is reported by Mi es for the worke of the fourth day.Fu;ther,we may confider the heavens : firll, in their matter and king, fecondiy, in their beauty and ornam nts 7th ipeaksof the'latter. B, his Spirit he hashgarriAt'd theheavens. r1ï7J t` God hath not onely created, but pollifhed, and (as it were)' navet, decors- painted or embroydered the heavens. The on l, inali word imply_ r,pk>chrè. the eye; this is the Lords work.And therefore as the whole world eth the makingof them beauti ul, contentfull,and pleafant-unio sir.. becaufe ofthe excellent order and beauty of it is exprefl in the Nó,ltof. Greek by a word that lignifies bectrtiful, .fo fotne partsof tt.e world have a (petal beauty and lu;lre put upon them beyond the refl. The heavens are not like-a plain garment (as we lay)with out weltand g yard: but they are laced and trimmed,they areena- meled and fpar+gled..they Offer and fparkle in our eys with rayes and beams of light. By bk Spirit he loathgarn;îhrdthe heaven', If it beasked,wiat is tbisgarnifhing of the beaver'? Pantwer, the feeling or p:achlg in ofthoreexcellent lights, Su ne, Moon and Starnes in the heavers, are the garnifhing of them Light is beaurifull, and the more light,any thing he.th,the more beauty it bath. Precious "(tones have much light in tbem;thofe lights the Starres are as lomany Ito :":es of beauty and glory fee or movtrng in the heap ens.Light as diffu+eel and flied abroad in the a ris cx- ceedi, g'ie'ighcfull and beautiful!, but light as it iscomrade(' and drawn together into the Sunne,Moone and Starres, is fare more beautiful light in the ayre pleafeth the eve,bet light in the Sun conquers and. daazei's the eye by the cxeaive beauty and bright*
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