Judges v, 4. dropped water.

Clouds also himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

Job xxvi, 8. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

Job xxxvi, 29, 30, 32. Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the

cloud that cometh betwixt.

Job xxxvii, 11-16. Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud, And it is turned round about by his counsels; that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge.

Job xxxviii, 9, 34, 37. When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven.

Jer. li, 16. . . . . He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends

of the earth.

Matth. xvii, 5. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye

him.

Acts 1, 9. And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

Eccles. xi, 4. He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Isa. xliv, 22. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgres sions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

Isa. lx, 8. Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

ascend and come like a storm; thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with

Ezek. xxxviii, 9. Thou shalt

thee.

Ezra x, 9, 13. Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered salem within three days: it was the themselves together unto Jeruday of the month; and all the nine month, and the twentieth people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain. But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain; and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.

Job v, 10. Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters 1 Cor. x, 1, 2. Moreover, breth-upon the fields. ren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

Job xxii, 14. Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.

Job xxxvi, 27, 28. For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof, Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

Job xxxviii, 26, 27. To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man. To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

Job xxx, 15. Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind; and my welfare passeth Ps. lxv, 9, 10. Thou visitest away as a cloud. the earth, and waterest it: thou Prov. xxv, 14 Whoso boasteth greatly enrichest it with the river

of God, which is full of water: t preparest them corn, when th hast so provided for it. T waterest the ridges thereof ab dantly; thou setilest the furr thereof; thou makest it soft w showers.....

Ps. Ixvili, 9. Thou, O God, d send a plentiful rain, where thou didst confirm thine inte ance, when it was weary.

Ps. lxxxiv, 6. . . . . . The r also filleth the pools.

Ps. civ, 13. He watereth hills from his chambers: the es is satisfied with the fruit of works.

P3. cxlvii. 8. Who covereth heaven with clouds, who pro

eth rain for the earth.....

Eccles. xi, 3. If the clouds full of rain, they empty t selves upon the earth.

Jer. v, 24. Neither say they their heart, Let us now tear LORD our God, that giveth r both the former and the latte:

his season......

left not himself without with Acts xiv, 17. Nevertheles in that he did good, and gav rain from heaven, and tru

seasons.....

kindness: for they kindled a Acts xxviil, 2. And the barous people showed us no l and received us every because of the present rain, because of the cold.

LORD unto Moses, Behold, I Exod. xvi, 4. Then said rain bread from heaven for }

and the people shall go ogt that I may prove them, whet gather a certain rate every they will walk in my law, or

Deut. xxxii, 2. My doctrines drop as the rain, my speech distil as the dew; as the small upon the tender herb, and se showers upon the grass.

Job xxix, 23. And they v for me as for the rain; and & opened their mouth wide, a. the latter rain.

Ps. xi, 6. Upon the wicked shall rain suares, fire and stone, and an horrible tempes

Ps. lxxii, 6. He shall comed like rain upon the mown gr showers that water the earth

Prov. xxvi, 15. A conti dropping in a very rainy day a contentious woman are alike

Isa. Iv, 10. For as the rain eth down, and the show heaven, and returneth not th but watereth the earth, and eth it bring forth and bud, d may give seed to the sower, bread to the eater.

Hosca v1,3. Then shall wel

we follow on to know the LORD: bis going forth is prepared as the morning and he shall come unto as the rain, as the latter and her rain unto the earth. Fatea x, 12...... It is time to seek the LORD, till he come and tae righteousness upon you.

RAIN PROMISED.

Deut. xi, 14.... I will give you rain of your land in his due seathe first rain, and the latter that thou mayest gather in - rn, and thy wine, and thine

1 Kings xvili, 1. And it came to

after many days, that the ⚫rd of the LORD came to Elijah he third year, saying, Go, shew if nato Ahab; and I will send anapon the earth.

r. xiv, 22. Are there any can cause rain? or can the ves give showers? Art not

ng the vanities of the Gentiles

DROUGHT.

O LORD our God? therewe will wait upon thee; for mat made all these things. xxxiv, 26. I will the lower to come down ason; there shall be show-is 4 bewing.

23. Be glad then, ye chilZon, and rejoice in the year God; for he hath given Fo the former rain moderately, d be will cause to come down the rain, the former rain, De latter rain in the first

Jer. xiv, 4. Because the ground chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

Ezek. xxii, 24. Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Joel i, 19. O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the field.

Amos iv, 7, 8. And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. So two or three cities

wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Haggai i, 10. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

DROUGHT THREATENED. Lev. xxvi, 18-20. And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass. And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land

ven that is over thy head shall be Deut. xxviii, 23, 24. And thy heabrass, and the earth that is under

thee shall be iron. The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust.

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1 Kings xvii, 1. And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

Isa. v, 6. And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Hosea xiii, 15. Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east LORD shall come up from the wilwind shall come, the wind of the derness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up. . . . .

Haggai i, 11. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

SEASONS.

Gen. xiii, 22. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

P8. xxxii, 4. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. Ps. lxv, 10. the springing thereof.

Thou blessest

the borders of the earth: thou hast Ps. lxxiv, 17. Thou hast set all made summer and winter.

Cant. ii, 10, 11. My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away: For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.

Ezek. xvii, 9. Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring.

Zech. xiv, 8. And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

Matth. xxiv, 32, 33. Now learn a

parable of the fig-tree; When his branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Mark xlll, 18. And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

2 Tim. iv, 21. Do thy diligence to come before winter, Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the

brethren.

PROGNOSTICS OF WEATHER.

And

1 Kings xviii, 41, 43-45. Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. And [Elijah] said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain.

Job xxxvi, 33. The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

Job xxxvii, 22. And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds; but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. Fair weather cometh out of the north.

Prov. xxv, 23. The north wind driveth away rain; so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

Matth. xvi, 2, 3. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red: And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day; for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Luke xii, 54-57. And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower, and so it is. And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? Yea, and why even of yourselves Judge ye not what is right?

DEW.

Gen. 1, 5, 6. And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

Gen. xxvii, 39. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be

the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.

Num. xi, 9. And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

Job xxxviii, 28. Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

Prov. ill, 20. By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

My head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Daniel iv, 15. Nevertheless, leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

1 Sam. xii, 17. Is it not when harvest to-day? I will call unt the LORD, and he shall send tha der and rain......

2 Sam. xxii, 14. The LORD thur dered from heaven, and the mo High uttered his voice.

Job xxxvii, 4, 5. After it a vol roareth: he thundereth with th voice of his excellency: and he w not stay them when his voice heard. God thundereth marve lously with his voice....

Ps. lxxvii,18. The voice of thunder was in the heaver: lightnings lightened the wor the earth trembled and shook

Ps. civ, 7. At thy rebuke th fled; at the voice of thy thun they hasted away.

Isa. xxix, 6. Thou shall be r ted of the LORD of hosts thunder...

John xii, 29. The people the fore that stood by, and heard said that it thundered; others An angel spake to him.

Rev. iv, 5. And out of the th proceeded lightnings, and th derings, and voices.....

LIGHTNING.

2 Sam. xxii, 15. And he sent arrows, and scattered them; li ning, and discomfited them.

Job i, 16. While he as speaking, there came also anot and said, The fire of God is from heaven, and hath burd the sheep, and the servants, i consumed them; and I only am caped alone to tell thee.

Job xxxvill, 35. Canst then lightnings, that they may g! say unto thee, Here we ard

Ps. xviii, 14. Yea, he sent his arrows, and scattered th and he shot out lightnings,

discomfited them.

Ps. xxix, 7. The voice of LORD divideth the flames of t Ps. xcvil, 4. His lightnings lightened the world: the saw, and trembled.

Ps. cxliv, 6. Cast forth lightn and scatter them: shoot out thi arrows, and destroy them. Jer. x, 13. He mu lightnings with rain, and bring forth the wind out of his treasu

Matth. xxiv, 27. For as the g ning cometh out of the east, shineth even unto the West shall also the coming of the B man be.

THUNDER AND LIGHTNIN

Exod. xix, 16. And It Ca pass on the third day, in morning, that there were th and lightnings, and a thick d upon the mount, and the vit the trumpet exceeding lev

at all the people that was in the trembled.

xx, 18. And all the people the thunderings, and the nings, and the noise of the pet, and the mountain smokand, when the people saw it, 7 removed, and stood afar off. xxxvi, 1, 3, 4. At this also heart trembleth, and is moved of his place. He directeth it r the whole heaven, and his tung unto the ends of the

Joshua x, 11. And it came to pass, as they filed from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hail-stones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

their vines with hail, and their Ps. lxxviii, 47, 48. He destroyed sycamore trees with frost.

He

entered into the treasures of the snow; or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

P3. li, 7. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Ps. lxviii, 14. When the Alwas white as snow in Salmon. mighty scattered kings in it, it

Ps. cxlvii, 16. He giveth snow

dereth with the voice of Excellency...... 4 xxxviii, 25. Who hath bia watercourse for the

hail.

Isa. xxviii, 2, 17. Behold, the Lord hath a mightyand strong one, which, as a tempest of hail, and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall

towing of waters, or a way be lightning of thunder. cast down to the earth with the Iviil, 12, 13. At the bright-hand. Judgment also will I lay to that was before him his thick the line, and righteousness to the 3s passed, hailstones and plummet; and the hail shall sweep sof fire. The LORD also thun- away the refuge of lies, and the la the heavens, and the waters shall overflow the hidingbest gave his voice; hail-stones place. eaths of fire.

vill, 5. And the angel took er, and filled it with fire estar, and cast it into the and there were voices, and , and lightnings, and earthquake.

A DESCRIPTION OF A THUNDERSTORM.

Isa. xxxii, 19. When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

Ezek. xiii, 13. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury, to consume it.

Ezek. xxxviii, 22. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and

brimstone.

, 1-11. Give unto the Oye mighty, give unto the glory and strength. Give The Load the glory due unto he worship the LORD in the ty of holiness. The voice of for is upon the waters: the f glory thundereth; the LORD many waters. The voice e LORD is powerful; the voice Haggat ii, 17. I smote you with LORD is full of majesty. The blasting, and with mildew, and of the LORD breaketh the with hail, in all the labours of yea, the LORD breaketh your hands; yet ye turned not to dars of Lebanon. He mak-me, saith the LORD. hem also to skip like a calf; Don and Sirion like a young

The voice of the LORD th the flames of fire. The of the LORD shaketh the hes the LORD shaketh the reas of Kadesh. The voice * Lono maketh the hinds to , and discovereth the forests: a his temple doth every one of his glory. The LORD sitpon the flood; yea, the LORD King for ever. The LORD give strength unto his people; OD will bless his people with

HAIL

d. ix, 18. Behold, to-morrow this time, I will cause it to a very grievous hail, such as not been in Egypt since the slation thereof even until

Rev. viii, 7. The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Rev. xvi, 21. And there fell up on men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

SNOW.

Job ix, 30. If I wash myself with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean.

Job xxxvii, 6. For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Job xxxviii, 22, 23. Hast thou

frost like ashes.

Isa. lv, 10.

The rain

cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth.

Jer. xviii, 14. Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

Matth. xxviii, 3. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow.

CHANGES OF TEMPERA-
TURE.

Gen. viii, 22. While the earth remaineth, . .... cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Exod. xvi, 14. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar-frost, on the ground.

warm, they vanish: when it is Job vi, 17. What time they wax hot, they are consumed out of

their place.

Job xxxvii, 9, 10, 17. Out of the south cometh the whirlwind; and cold out of the north. By the breath of God frost is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened. How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Job xxxviii, 29, 30. Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

He

forth his ice like morsels: who Ps. cxlvii, 17, 18. He casteth sendeth out his word, and melteth can stand before his cold? them: he causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow.

Jer. xxxvi, 30. Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah, He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David; and bis dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

Mark xiv, 54. And Peter followed

him afar off, even into the palace of the high priest: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.

I I.

THE SECOND OR STARRY HEAVENS.

Gen. 1, 6, 7. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Job xxxvii, 18. Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten lookingglass?

THE HEAVENLY BODIES. Gen. i, 14-18. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God

Isa. xxx, 26. Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven-fold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Rev. xii, 1. And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: Rev. xvi, 8. And the fouth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

REFLECTIONS.

thy heavens, the work of thy P3. viii, 3, 4. When I consider fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

P3. xix, 1-4. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world....

Ps.xcvil, 6. The heavens declare

2 Sam. xxiii, 4. And he sha as the light of the morning the sun riseth, even a mor without clouds.

Job xi, 17. And thine age be clearer than the noon thou shalt shine forth, thou be as the morning.

Job xxxviii. 12, 13. Hast commanded the morning sing days; and caused the day-s to know his place; That it take hold of the ends of the that the wicked might be si out of it?

Ps. Ixv, 8. They also that in the uttermost parts are at thy tokens: thou make outgoings of the morning evening to rejoice.

James 1, 11. For the sooner risen with a burning but it withereth the grass, a flower thereof falleth, s grace of the fashion of it per so also shall the rich in away in his ways.

MERIDIAN.

Gen. xviii, 1. And the L peared unto him in the p Mamre: and he sat in t door in the heat of the day. Exod. xvi, 21. the sun waxed hot, it melted.

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An

1 Sam. xi, 9, 11. And th

heaven, to give light upon the earth. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Ps. xix, 5, 6. Which [the sun] is

people see his glory.

Ps. cxxxvi, 7-9. To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: The sun to eth for ever: rule by day: for his mercy endurThe moon and

Thus shall ye say unto the time the sun be hot, ye sha Jabesh-gilead, To-morrow, help. And the messenger and shewed it to the men besh; and they were glad.

his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it.

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Ps. civ, 19. He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.

1 Cor. xv, 40, 41. There are also

celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There 13 one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.

Ps. lxxii, 5, 7. They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

P8. cxxi, 6. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon

mercy endureth for ever.

Ps. cxlviii, 3-5. Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and

they were created.

Prov. xxv, 3. The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearch able.

Jer. xxxi, 37. Thus saith the LORD, If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done,

saith the LORD.

SUNRISE.

Gen. xix, 23. The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

Gen. xxxii, 31. And as he [Jacob] passed over Penuel the sun rose

SUNSET.