Observations, naturall and morall : with a short treatise of the numbers, weights, and measures, used by the Hebrews, with the valuation of them according to the measures of the Greeks and Romans : for the clearing of sundry places of Scripture in which these weights and measures are set downe by way of allusion . Who hath efiabli/bedaS the ends oftht earth ? He Hebrcwes gather out of thisplace the foure Elements, threeof them let dovvne here cleerely,the winde,the water, and theearth;andthe fourth the fire,be-caufeitis not clearely feene byus as the reft of the elements,therefore it is compre
Observations, naturall and morall : with a short treatise of the numbers, weights, and measures, used by the Hebrews, with the valuation of them according to the measures of the Greeks and Romans : for the clearing of sundry places of Scripture in which these weights and measures are set downe by way of allusion . Who hath efiabli/bedaS the ends oftht earth ? He Hebrcwes gather out of thisplace the foure Elements, threeof them let dovvne here cleerely,the winde,the water, and theearth;andthe fourth the fire,be-caufeitis not clearely feene byus as the reft of the elements,therefore it is comprehended un-der the word heaven 5 and byacontratfion the Hebrewes contra& the foure ele-ments in this word letter aleph fandethfor eJJ) the fire 5 the fecond letter Refa for Ruab the wind-, B the. Hsvvtlfcflebrewes gasthcr the foure Eltments, Naturall Obfeyoations qua CD»D pro 0terra 1£y fro y m * Reafons proving thatthere are fourc elenxats,RcAfitt, I. RtgnU PhtUJophsrum. Reafon}2* Thefpiritj, breath,moyftuc,ad fabftance<^f aaan, referable tU:foure elements. the third letters* for tf*^/?, the waters the fourth let-ter Gnajjit forgmpker the duft or earth. Amos 9. 6. It u he tb*t bxtb founded bis troupes \jrbundles] in the earthy the Hebrews meane by thcietroupes or bundles, the elements, the ay re5 the water andthe tire which the Lord hath bound together, Reafons proving that there are fourc elements^ firftthereis a heaven that moveth and turneth about ftill,thereforeof a neceffirie there muft be earth retting in themidftofthe Center about the which the heavens arcmoved j now when we have found our, that of nccef-fitie there mu& be the element of the earth, there muftbe fome element contrariero it which is the fire, other*wayes there fhould be a great defect in the vni
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