5y6 Chap. ? r. `fn ÉxN1itian upan the" Beak! of J o I. Verl.z6, alw.iyes in the day, vet wedoe nor alxaS es fee it thine, becaure fornetimes theclouds cover it , and fornetimes the Moone tha doweth it,.as.in the Eclipfe, So that; though the Sun fhineth a4- wayes, yet we cannot alwayes behold the fhining of it. The Slime is a lamp that never goeth out, it lath burned evcrl ilirg. ly from the creation to this d iy, yet to this or that place, at this or that time it doth not (Hine. lj 1 beheld the Sunne when it flamed, Or the Monewalking in.brightnrfe,. The word rendred,b.rightnrffe,Ggtrftes precious (tech,14 6, ) afind ie(bull come to paffe in that day that the light /hat: not he cleare nor darke ; we put in the Margin, preciota nor thicknefie. "F pretiefurn Thus'M'. B.7ughtou trarflates here, The Mime walking .precï, fea lQfn "t esta, and adds-thisGloffe, The newMoone; cfwhichyet foolsfay, ßla!ihneinftgai 9,4lave her. Ir feemeth hehad obferved fuch a vaine falutation . given the newMoone by ignorant or fuperflirious perlons. And as he expounds it by the newMow, fo others by the full Moone, becaufe the Moone when the is at the full bathher greateli corn- mpnicarions oflight from the Sunne; fo chat, ifat any time thee infnare the heartOf mar. with her beautiful counrenance,'tismoti probably at the full. The Moone at fall walkes in the precious light of the Sun, and the Moone in her wane, walkes from the precious light of the Sun. IfI beheld the Moons walking in brightneffs. Walking is the proper motionofa man ; the Moone is fa;d` to walke becaufe the moves and keepes onwith a conftant pace. TheMooneat full is fayd towalke in brightnefs,becaufe then the walks, a; it were, in flare, or in a kind of triumph, the then thews her fairell face, to attract the eyes ofall beholders, and to entice the hearts ofthe fuperftitious, to adore and worfhip her. Some read the whole verfe disjóyntly, or without anycopula, si v;di folem, ti've in three parts, repeating the verbe, If I beheld, in all three,, lunam, j IfIbeheld the Sun, If beheld the , Mlione, IfI beheld that preciosas vrdi pretio,`um thing, which doth encompafe all, thatis, The wholeframeof heaven amb ens i e to with all its hell, moving about us. As if yob had fayd , 1 nev,er be tans earn roe. helde tber or all of the a goodly creatures fo with'm eyes, that m forum mo`ii. y .¢ % . y f y y, y n401 c Merl, heart oathbeen entired:olive them any veneration.. Thus:
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