SONG LXXIII. Queft. 4. Concerning the Springs of the Sea. Ver. SAY, Halt thou div'd in lower things, Hid paffages and fecret fprings, Haft thou the ocean fearch'd around, SONG LXXIV. Queft. 5. About the Gates of Death. Job xxxviii 17. 17 HATH death to thee op'd and disclos'd Her gloomy gates and rooms? Or hell its difmal fhades expos'd And horrid longæve homes? Tell then how fouls by death at last, From bodies are unty'd, And launch'd into the ocean vast, Of an abyfs untry'd? Queft. 6. Concerning the Breadth of the Earth. AST thou about the earth, O Job, 18 HAS E'er drawn thy compass round, And of this whole terraqueous globe, If not, fince earth is but a point, To the vaft univerfe, How fhall thy art and science joint * As applied to bell, it signifies everlafting. SONG LXXVI. Queft. 7. About the Place and Path of Light and Ver. KNOW'ST thou the magazines on high, 19 And bright materials, to fupply 20 My fair etherial mines from whence As to the most profufe expence The fun and ftars can wafte? 21 Canft thou, for age and skill, explain 24 Couldst thou at firft, commanding light, The path, for day, to chafe the night; Queft 8. Concerning the Treasures of Snow and Hail. Job xxxviii. 22, 23, 22 TELL, haft thou been where hail and fnow, My martial treasures are, Which I referve, for times and woe, And for the day of war? 23 Haft thou these airy realms furvey'd, SONG LXXVIII. Queft. 9. Concerning the daily Changes of the Morning and Evening. Job xxxviii. 24. 24 TELL how the parts of light through clouds Ev'n as the eaft-wind fcatters clouds, Ver. Discover plain, how doth the light [Each morning makes a mighty change Each ev'ning too feems equal strange, Yet man, who still the change expect Thefe daily miracles neglect, Queft. 10. Concerning Thunder and Lightning, Clouds and Rain; by what facred Counfels they are directed, and by whofe Order emitted. 25 A Job xxxvii. 25, 26, 27. 34, 35. GAIN, canft thou declare what way The heav'nly Architect His cloudy forges up did lay, And in the air erect? And how the mighty pond'rous mass Aloft was thither brought, From which, foon as his light'nings pafs, Who raises vapours from the ground, Fall down in fhow'rs, thro' which around, How are the heav'nly aqueducts, And water-pipes contriv'd, Whence floods are to the thirsty flocks, 26 Who doth the water-courfe divide, By drops, or violent fhow'rs, provide 3. Ver. Discharg'd again to overflow, As once the earth and hills; Each drop does, by direction, go Yet by the fhow'rs that fill the brooks, Refresh'd does in its chearful looks In places where no man refides, 27 Like healing balm diftilling rains Then rifing fap that round does glide, 34 Say, to thy voice or orders will And when thou bids them rain diftill, 35 Will ready light'nings fudden fly, SONG LXXX. Quelt. 11. Concerning the Dew, the Ice, and boar 28 IF thou canft fecret things explain, And hidden caufes fhew, Where dwells the Father of the rain? How are the hov'ring mists, so foft, Arrested in their flight; Then harden'd in the air aloft, And whiten'd in the night? Ver. Canft thou the nature of the ice, 30 The billows of the fea congeal'd, The ocean's wat'ry face conceal'd Fierce is the froft; what womb did then So fell a tamer breed, SONG LXXXI. Queft. 12. About directing of the Stars and their 31 WEAK man, canft thou in spring restrain, And bind the influence, Which with the kindly fertile rain, Canft thou in winter loofe the chains, 32 Canft thou with conftellations clothe And, in his turn, make Mazzaroth, Or, canst thou guide Ar&turus' pace, And bid his bright attending race, 33 Know'st thou the fix'd celeftial laws Canft thou on earth their influence caufe |