222. Mr.'BowgozN on. na allefuccounding Orb, 
queftion concerning the fixt ftars, and, the heavenly bodies in 
general, namely, What.hinders them from. falling upon, one 
another, and thereby. involving the whole in. ruin. P= W hether 
his endeavours have been. fucce(sfully applied, tbofe who are - 
«onveríant in fubjects of this nature, are beft qualified to judge. 
In regard to the fubject in hand, there feems to be a happy 
co-incidence between.phenomena and fcripture ; and, therefore, 
in farther evidence, of fuch an-etb, and-in„evidence:of::feveral 
er orbs fimilar, and. concentric to it, we may recur to ferip- 
"ture: feveral paflages of which appear "applicable tc to. that pur- 
At, feldom happens ibat pali. philofophy i is made to borrow 
affiflance from thence: but though fcripture may not be intend- 
ed to anftzu&t us in. the:philofophy of material, nature, it may 
neverthelefs give, and be intended to give, fome hints of its con- 
fütutien, or. general fyftem, 
Ast iges referred to, do not need any laboured com- 
ats S, avay few -bfervations will fuffice to en. and ap- 
"A remarkatde. one, and ier may eae in fome ceci] 
“to elucidate:the reft, is this paffage, “< It is Gop that buildeth 
. his flories in the heavens.”* In the Ezg///h tranflation, which 
agrees with the French, with the Latin of Caffellio, and of 
Tremellius and unius, the marginal reading, referring to ftories, 
is fpheres and afcenfions. The former. explanatory of ftories.: 
he: latter, another word for the Heérew ; and which anfwers to - 
the Gr; Set of the reni ty, | ^B, hich, both feparately and 
ing « ne a X a mote: like the eins of a magnificent 
$ building : 
