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exhalation of the interior Elements, may well cause in effect LlB - 



a great parte of this diver sitie, being more grosse, more 

 subtile, more drie, and more moist. But yet this is no per 

 tinent reason, seeing that we see in one region, where the 

 vapours and exhalations are of one sorte and qualitie, that 

 there rise windes and effectes quite contrary. We must 

 therefore referre the cause to the higher and celestiall effi 

 cient, which must be the Sunne, and to the motion and in 

 fluence of the heavens, the which by their contrary motions 

 give and cause divers influences. But the beginnings of 

 these motions and influences are so obscure and hidden from 

 men, and on the other part so mighty, and of so great force, 

 as the holie Prophet David, in his propheticall Spirite, and 

 the Prophet leremie, admiring the greatnes of the Lorde, 

 speake thus : &quot; Qui profert ventos de thesauris suis.^ He 

 that drawes the windes out of his treasures. In trueth leremy. x. 

 these principles and beginnings are rich and hidden trea 

 sures, for the Author of all things holdes them in his hand 

 and in his power, and when it pleaseth him sendeth them 

 foorth for the good or chastisement of men, and sends foorth 

 such windes as hee pleaseth, not as that Eolus, whome the 

 Poets doe foolishly faine to have charge of the windes, 

 keeping them in a cave like vnto wild beasts. We see not 

 the beginning of these windes, neyther do we know how long 

 they shal continue, or whither they shal goe. But we see 

 and know well the diverse effects and operations they have, 

 even as the supreame trueth the Author of all things hath 

 taught vs, saying, &quot; Spirittis vbi vult spirat, et vocem eius 

 audis, et nescis vnde venit, aut quo vadit.&quot; The spirit or 

 winde blowes where it pleaseth, and although thou feelest 

 the breath, yet doost thou not knowe whence it commeth, 

 nor whither it shall goe. To teach vs that conceiving a 

 little of matters which are present and common vnto vs, wee 

 should not presume to vnderstand that which is so high and 

 so hidden as the causes and motives of the Holy Ghost, It 



