___ __ TJ_h·a_t_G_o_n_· _il_. ----~---~~-- into the Sea;~thec}ay follmves the nighr,~&c. the winds ru.nne in their compatfes, and they have. done fo continually, and there is \}O alteration; therefore they doubt whether there bee fuch a God,tbat_bath given a beginning to thefe things, and lball give an end? Foranfiver to this; confider that thofe~odies of ours, which we carry about with us, which weknow hathabeginning and fuall haveanend, th~t there is fomething in them, that is as con- . fiant as anyofthe former; as the beating ofthe pulfe,the breathisg of the lungs,and .the motion ofthe heart, and yet the hodyhad a begianing, and fhallhave an end : Now what is the difference betweene tbefe two ? ·It is but fmall, .this continueth on~ly for fome tjthes ofyeeres, but the world for thoufands; .the d-ifference is not great; and therefore why iliould younot thinke it had abeginning,as well as your body-,and likewife·iliall have an ending. ·..t'': ,rj ., Seewhat the Apotl:le faith' in this place,though all things continue alike ; yet there are two rea~ fans, whereby hee proves that God- ;made the world,and that the world iliall have an end : . , . I The fir!l: is laid downe in verf. ) • For this Verfe'· 5·' thry a.rc willingly_ ignorant of i that by the Word ·of · GoD the heavens ·were of old,' and 'the· earth flandtng out of the water.r, And in the waters: that ,is, naturally the waters wouldcover the earth~ as ir did at the beginning: for the natural place ofrhc "waters is above tile earth; even as of the .aire above thewaters.: Nowwho is it that hathdrawn thefe I J ,, r ' 1 '·
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