3' 6 Chap. 28: an Expifltion upon the Book,, of) o B..Verf. zs. raïgory, bath made decrees and ttxcutes concerning man,the chief of all tarthly creatures, both as co his end and alithotc meaner which lead r hereunto ; fo he bath made a decree concerning all other creatures, even the mean_(t creatures, by which they are regulated in all heir motions towal d man; and among the tell, he bath made a decree for the rain by name. Hence Note ; Natural rain is under a divine lam. The rain is formed and falls from heaven upon the earth by flame, even by the flarure of the great God of heaven and earth. The rain is under ader ee in a fourfold refpec3.Fìrfl,for the time, when it (hall begin to rain, (Gen. 7. I.) Secondly, for the con- tinuance,low long it (hall rain (gen. 7. 12 ) Thirdly, for the quantity, inwhat meafureanddegree it null rain, (I Icings 18, 45.) Fourthly,for the places andper forts, where and upon whom it (hall rain, (Amos 4. 7. ) 1 carifed it to rain upon one City, and caafedit not to rain Hpon another City. The Scripture is ex= reeding plentiful and frequent ingivingGod the Glory of this de- cree. Eliah (peaks as it the rain had been in his power (a Icings z7.1.) a a the Lord GOd of Ifraellrveth, before whom Ifland, there fhallbe neither dew nor rain theft yeares, but according to my word;, But that word was not his own,but the word of God. As if he had laid ; There !hall be no rain bur as I have declared, or as God (hall declare by his word in my Minifiry. Thus David tangs the pratfes Of God (Pfd. 65.9, 10.) Thanvrfitefl the earth (fc. wich rain when it is as it were rick (of a fever through aboundance of heat ) and rhirfiy, fo it follows) and waterefl it : thangreatly inrichefi it with the river of God which is fall of water. But .rain water is not river water, why then doth he (peak here of a ri- ver ? I anfwer, rain is a 'river above, as a river is rain below. Rain from the cicudes fireárrre`s like`a river, and Beth the lervice of a river to the earth.And'ris called nor barely a river, but The river of gaol.- Which may be expounded :either by that common Hrbraifine,`a great and wonderful river. Or rain is called the'ri- ver of God, because it comes more immediately (at leaf/ to ap- pearance) fromGod, and is of. a di f}erenc'rife and original from con tron,rivers, with this river faith' David, thoa''crrichefl the earth.) And as it follows in the fame P;àlm) Thou prrpareft them
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