Chap. 28. an Expofition upon the Book of J o 2. Vcrf. 25. 313 -- j the earth, or poynt of the heaven. M that, which üenclines or ?J Tatum eff 7tr turner mans mind this or that way, to this or that thing, is right- a omnium- ly called the weight of it, (wince both Moralifls andDivines five tevium ,¡r fay, that Love it the weight of thefoxle,'becaufe love is that which vegrJviurrin inclines us to this or that thing ; which way foever our affçtáions clinario ad na goe, the mindgoes andanion follows) fo that which carryeth the pondumf7eúra wind any way is the weight ache wind. And usually the inclina- tion of all things, whether they be light or heavy to their natural Corpus pordere or proper place; is called the weight of them. Thus when job Put animus a- fpeakesof the weight of the wind,we are not to under (}and it li- more cerrar poi terally, as if the windes were formally weighed, but the weight Augutte.71. rr. of thewindes is that bent which through the power and appoynt- de civi: del ment of God the windes have to blow from or to any corner of cap. sS. the world, fomecimes with greater fomecimes with (O'er force Pondur vento. and violence. The Scripture (peaks but of four windes , Ea(l, p pea fir! Weft North and South. Thefe the ancients called Cardinal feranlurquo del winds; After ages di(iingui(hed them into eight , others into But our modern Navigatorshave difiinguifhed them in vit.Fecit vem- thirty-two,iccordirg to fo many pointsin the Sea-card or Corn- ns ppnc'tu pats ; every one of which bath itsweight, that is, a secret pro- dedr't em incti. ratiorent 17101112 penfion or impulfion, carrying it fortis its own way. Toe Latine utfc:movean- Etymologi(ls, derive the word which lignifies wind from a word rur quandoq; signifyingforce, (or whichbeing joyned, with the former dock ad ban, parten more fully declare the nature of it) from a word which lign;,fes 4uandoq', ad,t, to come; because the windcometh forcibly r with an imperu- tam, ny 'r,: f Y Í/'u77111 aYtt?C ous vehemence. The material cause of the winds (as Philoic- rs eo ua quodfa phers teach) isa hot and dry exhalation arifing'not only out of agirario tiehe_ the earth, but out of &he waters, out ofitheSeas and Snows, which menr ; vol re- being fo thin that it cannot be condensed into a cloud , quickly iu a 1'/me bacometh wind. This light wandring an uncon(labt creatu a -the indetienìorczr- Lord cloth Co regulate, as if all its motions were not only boun- njaper}anc. ded, but counterpoyfcdand weighed. To this text its lob form! G.ircx. 71_te. conceive that paffage hath relation mentioned is the bo k of otri g: FYifdom (which though it be Apocryphal, yet is rioted with nia- ny excellent truths) Got bath ordered all things in ns=mber,weight, andmeafrere, (.Vtfifd. 11.r7. ) The Lord maketh aweight for that which bath no weight. He milked) the weight for the inder. 'Hance Obfcrte ; S f The
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