90 T/)e Wisdom of GOD Parti. 



in a continual Stream like a River, it would gall 

 the Ground, wafh away Plants by the Roots, 

 overthrow Houfes, and greatly incommode, if 

 not fufFocate Animals: If, I fay, we confider 

 thefe Things, and many more that might be ad- 

 ded, we might in this refped: alfo cry out with 

 the Apoftle, O the Depth of the Riches both of the 

 Wifdom and Knowledge of God ! 



Secondly , Another Meteor is the Wind ; 

 which how many Ufes it doch ferve to, is not 

 eafy to enumerate, but many it doth, viz, to 

 ventilate and break the Air, and diffipate noifom 

 and contagious Vapours, which otherwife ftag- 

 nating, might occafion many Difeafes in Ani- 

 mals ', and therefore it is an Obfervation concern- 

 ing our native Country, Anglia ventofa , fi no?t 

 ventofdy venenofa: To transfer the Clouds from 

 Place to Place, for the more commodious water- 

 ing of the Earth : To temper the Exceffes of the 

 Heat, as they find who in Brafl^ New Spain^ the 

 neighbouring Iflands, and other the like Coun- 

 tries near the Equator, reap the Benefit of the 

 Breezes: To fill the Sails of Ships, and carry 

 them on their Voyages to remote Countries ; 

 which, of what eminent Advantage it is to Man- 

 kind, for the procuring and continuing of Trade 

 and mutual Commerce between the moft diftant 

 Nations , the illuftrating every Corner of the 

 Earth, and the perfecting Geography and Natu- 

 ral Hiftory, is apparent to every Man. That the 

 Monfoons and Trade- Winds fhould be fo con- 

 flant and periodical, even to the 30th Degree of 

 Latitude all round the Globe, and that they 



Ihould 



