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Show ------- a 90 The firjt Booke of the frit part ‘J % & ; -_-- -o_ Cur. 9.6.6 >= , : ¥ " aRe EE ding to the rules urc, accor of Moylt and -epiri Ladi on>Sea. ; the Ladie idn Petrns Gensf i vpon Aliace e "Lthie ong : the Ateoneywhichisthe ereof Alia de ns -de 0 -_ t t Heric: e ay ; var 7 ae : ence, ? experi . on comm and nomies Alfo de concor- of Afftro i. revelat diuine by oud nowthis x7 ], : er e ° Sat). 14 Theo i Ajivelog. Gengit, - e ea a V . e g,that "although ‘Nea Jhec firmin confirmeth,a cau nd of the ant be ign ot OO: : Scr e e an _ amsie arorp being ON,yet(this. coniuaction : ee - "a ea notonelyfignes,buat oo,e if g atb thofe. were for f: thereo tyEn. ER a atiarali( : ‘ "a ier, th _s-atarr chis God himfel: fe:an he caufe,whi firt fromt nide tacn th ;ys enee ction pe coniun this watrie cant this great and uen ) Mof Mo/es meant ofHea res of Heaucn) theLe Windo Wwindor V-nt d(.Cata properlyeerie warepp ) es y figni= nracie fiethan place glifhe word ligniiying flowing downe orcomming downe. Nc aith ?.ded, yeHe n, by llatio ns4fuch ,a confte Heaue ofthe courfe eby.the oy Lortab a to ordain r ee ts os J/4c) it pleafed God 1 : of ftorp?s* "7" forfake reby andthe ds, towar tion deftru their n theforceof whichvall men might behold therei . gainftwhich in they walked,andcallynto Godfor mercy wicked wayes where - pho the ing waterbe naturally ite sss Cah wank ici ‘ mder q words aeyeddown- Of this iudgement was Gul, Parifienfis, whovnderftood, thatthe words Catarraie Catarrad e Cuar.7.§.7. Toconclude,I find noother myfteriein thé word Catarradte Geli,thanthat the clouds 1° weremeant thereby : Mofes vfing the word windores ofHeanes (if that bethe fenfe of the word)toexpreffé the violenceofthe Kayne nd Ipowring downe of Waters. For whofoeuethath feenethofe fallings ofwater, which fometimes happen -in the Judies, whicharé called the Spowts,(where clouds do not breake into drops, but fall witha refiftleffe violencein one body) may properly vfethat manner offpeech which afo/es hat the Windores or Floud-gates of Heauen opened: (which is)That watersfell contrarie to cuftome,and that ordet. which 20 los )he witheholdeth the waters, and they drie vor better in Latine, Et omniaficcautur: Aired all things are dryed up ) but vohen hefendeth them out, they defirey the Earth: And in out tr i¢ Bonds Godloofed at the 26. Chapter: Hebindeth the waters in the Clouds. Riy that timeofthe generall Floud,& called vp the Waters whichfleptin the great Deepe; and thefeioyning together,coueredthe Earth, till they had performed the worke of his will: which done,hethen commandedthemto returneintotheir darke and vaft Canes, ¢ and the teft(bya winde)rarified againeinto ayre,formerly condenfedinto drops. king retention from the Clouds,and condenfing ayreinto water by the miniftericof his Angels,or howfoeuerelfe beft pleafed his All-powerfulneffe. the confequent/whichis.) that the World had wantofwaterto ouer-couer the hight Motthtaines, T take that conceit to be vnlearned and foolith : foritis written, that " Fountaines ofthe great Deepe were broker vp ( that is )the waters forfooke the very bo-, wels ofthe Earth;and all whatfoeuer was difperft therein,pierced & brake throt sh the! face thereof. Thenlet vs confider,that the Earth had aboue one and twentie thoufand miles,the Diameter of the Earth,accordingto thatcircle,feuen thoufandmile, andthe fiomthe Superficies to the Center fome three thoufand fiue hundredmiles. Take thentht higheft Mountaiue ofthe World;Ceucefas,T;aurus,Olympas, or Atlassthe Mountains 0! Armenia ox Seythiaorthat(ofall other the highelt) in Teexerif, and Tdoe notfind that he that looketh highett, ftretchethraboue thirtiemiles vpright. Itis not then i posibleantwering reafon with reafon, thatall thofe waters mixed: within the Es three thoufand fiue hundyed miles deepe; fhould not well helpeto couer the fpace 0! thirtie miles in height, this thirtie miles vpright being found in the depths ofthe Eatt}} one hundredandfixteene times: forrha Fountaines of the great Deepe were broken h and the waters drawne out ofthe bowels of the Earth, Secondly, ifwe confider wm proportion the Earth bearethto the extenfion ofthe Ayte ouer and aboucit, wee the! finde the difference exceeding great,Ifthenit pleafediGod to condenfel fomuch a fe this Ayre,as eucry wherecompaffeth and embraceth the Earth,which conden{at conuerfion of Ayre into VVater,a change familiarin thofe Elements': it will not! firange to men of iudgement,yea but of ordinarie vnderftanding,thatthe Harth(GO"" pictting was coucred ouerwith Waters,without any new: Creation Lally call naturall. Godthen loofened the powerretentiue in the vppermoft ayse,and'the watersfellin abundance: Behold (Layth ob ¢.120.253 doresdoenot gguatica, vs Caacer,eoc. as aforefaid. As yet ( faith he )I perceiue not what the of Heauen ) valef presiae the Hebrewes meancth by thofé words(Catgrracie Cali, ox Windores propotition,whether Godhath fo reftrayned himfelfc,orno,I will not difpute; but for Or there could not be any fuclconiunétion at that time. words arethele : Nondum intelligo Prophetam Hebraorwm Catarracias Celi vocd/fe, nif allido,or quale [unt figns (eeeWin. partes illas Cali,que gencratinefunt Pluuiarum & Inundationum Aquarum Prophet if §. VI. That there was nonced of any ner Creation ofMatter to make the wii uerfall loud: And what are Catarracie Celi, t GEN.7.. VERS. If. Owif it be obiected,that God dothnotcreate any thing of new;(for. God relt eth the feuenth day: (that is)he didnot thenafter create any new/pecies)swhich granted iemay feemethatthenall the Earth and Ayre had not waters f{uficict! td ‘couier the habitable World fifteene Cubits aboue the higheft Mountaines. Of ths = Laftly,forthe opinions of Gulielmm Parifienfis, and' Aliatenfis, ‘to-which may adde Berofus and others,hat fuch a coniunction there was, fore-thewing that deftruction by Waters whichfollowed ;andthavby the word Gaterrafzcel/, or Windoresof Hex uen,was meant this coniundtion ‘there needes no other "anifwerthan' that obfertation of Ludonicws Vines,whoafirmeth, That by the graueft 4/frolegian it was obferucd;that inthe yeere. 1524. there: fhould'happen che' like coniun@ion as. at Woahs Floud- thar which ( faith he)there was neuer a more fairesdrie,and feafonable yeeré:the like deftrution was prophecied of the yeere1 588. "But Picws Earle of Mirandyla proueth, that on. or forthefe wards,dath- Ce¢/7, or Windores of Heauen,were to be taken forthe former coniun@i Adar s Venus Plants, the of and Orion; d =i or watrie Signes} Cancer,Piftes,Pleiades, Hyades,an His owne ns. Inundatio greateft the of e canfes theforcibl axe which Mooze: andthe ue he thereby understanding thofe Celeftiallpowers, by whofe influences are engendred the Raine, wordhah beenexpoun- syd tyundations ofWattrs,fuch as ave the watrie Signes ofCanccr,erc. r ded (indores) But in a word,asit might pleafe God, that in the courfe of his ynfearchable Wifdom for Barres or Bloud-gates. this coniun@tion fhould at fuich time be. ? fo did he/(as aforefaid Jadde vigorand faculty, and gaue to cuery operation encreafe ofvertues,violent eruptionstoSprings & Fouttaines,commanding themto caft out the wholetreafure and heape of their waters ; t- of the Hiftory of theWorld, §. VII. Offome remainder ofthe memoric of Noau among the Heathen O Ax, commanded by God, beforethe fall ofthofe Waters, entred the Arke which hehad built,with his own Wife,and his Sonnes,and his Sonnes Wites, taking with themofeliery Creature which tookelifeby generation, feuen of thecleane,& ofthe vncleane,two.Woah, according to Philo, fignifieth quietneffe: after others,andaccordi i i Lammech, ceflation ; to whom aitertimes gaue n es,an{wering his antiquitic,zeale;yertue,and otherqualities:.as, The firft Ogy az Ogzoes there was alfoa great Floud.of Achata; Saturnetheycalled him, becaufe he was the Father of NationS: Others gaue him the NameofPremethexs,whowas faidto ftcale away Zupitersfire; firein that place being taken andvnderftoodfor thekhowled God. and heauenly things. Others , thinke,that he was fo called forhis excellent wifedome and forefight, He had alfo the Name of feaus,(idef?) vinofus, becanfeIain' fignificth Wine in the Hebrew. And fo Tertullian findes him writtenin Lib?is Ritualibus, in the Bookes ofCeremonies, preceding both Satarne,Pranus,and Jove: which three' cnioyed an elder time than all the other ancienteft fayned gods.And this Name /ai#is taken fromthe Hebrew andSyrian, and not from the Latine: forit was in vfe before ther as any Latine Nation,or any King- dome by that Nameknowne.Ofthe antiquitic ofJanus, Fabins Pictor giueth this teftiionic: Ian | etate nullz erat Monarch ; ovtasibus. heélanil 4 tia OFT ; jDECLOF ALLOHS IONS LOWAKIN haferat vlle iditas, rc, Vinum c& F lus docuit anys ad facrificia: primus YPomariaC [acra docuit ; in Tanvs ({aith he) there was a0 Mabe defire of rule had not thenf [elfe about the bearts of mea. IANS Wine and Meales he firft fet vp.ltars, inflituted Gare nihey vfeato pray; withother holy Rites and Ceremonits. found amongthe Heathen, whichin all whileft Woah flourifhed,there was: not hattookeon him foueraigne authority. planted the Vine,and became, a Hul- Gev.9,20. ; of both (to wit ) Wineand Meale, tered facrifice to God,athankfgiuin for |