33c) Chap. 28. (; n Ex;ofition upon the book, of ] 0 B. Verf. 26 ,Lord as itwere with thunder. And betides, thofe rouzingand awakening Preachers of the Gofpel fames and John the brother of fames were furnamed by CI-trill himfelf ( Mary, 3.17.) Boa- nerges,w hich i s the funs ofthunder. Now if there men of voice were 'called fans of Thunder, :nd the Thundering: Sapcifl a voice, well may Thunder it felt be called a voice.And it is here put plu- rally, the lightning of the Tbunderr or voices, becaufe God doth (as it were dilcharge many of there great Cannons neer toge- ther from the Clouds, and the artillery of heaven goeth off clap after clap. When it lightens we may fay, rod gives fire; and when it Thunders we here the report of it. For though the Thun- der be inorder of nature before or at Ina contemporary with the lightning, yet in order of time we fee the corufcitation or fla(hes of lighning,r before we hear the found or voice of thunder, or the Thunder which is a voice.And the reafon is,becaufe the eye is nimbler at is work then the car ; the eye taking in its ,objets by a dire& line, but .the car by a .gyration. from feveral Angles. D ilyexperience teacheth us, that when any Gun, great or fmall, isdifcharged,we fee the light of the firea diliinec (pace before we hear the found of the report ; efpecially if we are at any confide- rabic diftance ; and fo at every firoak of an ax or hammer, we fee the fall of the faroak, before we beare the found of it. And therefore jobdab rightly put the Lightning before the Thunder, becaufe though that Collifionof the clouds which we call thunder be firlf, yet thatbrightnefs in the cloudeswhich we call lightning is Peen firfi. Naturalif'rs difcourfe largely of there two Meteors,. lightning and thunder The former,is an exhalationwhich byfre- quent motion takes fire like tow orffubble, and breaking the fides of the cloudfla(hcrb with a fsddain brìghtnefs throughout the ayr. The latter is , thatfounder voice in the Styr which that hat and dry ex- Tonirru ater. halation ?rakesby a violent rentingofthe Cloud,whofe thic(enefsand rondopodfo. coldnefs flops its paffage,and binders it from a(cending higb+r.Hence nits epu rerrear it bath its name in Latine either from terrifying, or fromfounding veiarconeretru- nd rtcfhing, we may joy, both derivations together, becaufe eneo,podcuna - rufhin° with an ámafing found through thecloud it cerrifieth magnoónitu s nuL;speYrupo rhore that hear ir. Tnis is a Work in nature, -but To6 .mho was a fistit'sirraat. divine Phi!olopher, calls it berres, The work of God. He makes Ga,& Mere- a way for theliQhtning ofthe thunder, oiolog, Hence Obferve ,Lightning-
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