230 Mr. Bowpo1n on an all furrounding Orb, 
The laft member of the feries is the waters above the heavens. 
"'Thefe waters: arguing from analogy, feem to indicate, and to 
be defcriptive of atmofpheres, that furround thofe orbs, amply 
provided, like our atmofphere, with waters, and other elements, 
proper for the fupport of animal and vegetable life ; and for 
other important purpofes. 
The number of thofe ftories, or concentric orbs, feems in- 
definite. "The gradation clearly denotes a plurality of them : 
each ha —its {uns and planets, or fyftems. The 
ample {paces ren them, Mee Me Retesekded by the orb, 
to which we more immediately belong, are beautified By thiote 
glorious bodies, which, within each of the orbs, conftitute 
fyftems innumerable, ferving the like noble purpofes, which 
our folar fyftem is calculated to ferve, and doth ferve. 
- The foregoing paflages of fcripture thus interpreted, appear 
to agree, in their refult, with the phenomena above-mentioned ; 
and, like them, to be naturally, and without force, applicable 
to. the purpofe, for which they were produced. Such agree- 
ment, it is apprehended, fhews the propriety and fitnefs of the 
interpretation : as, on the other hand, a difagreement with phe- 
nomena would prove the unfitnefs or falfity of any interpréta- 
tion ; ; and manifeft it to be totally inadmifible. 
When feripture and phenomena thus agree, they mutually 
‘elucidate.each other ; and, in that cafe, what is deducible from 
ed one, is ENT by the other. As, therefore, thofe paf- 
fages agree‘ with the phenomenz, they both togcther corrobo- 
sedie cine which Eos afforded feparately, of the exif- 
Ta to the exterior orbs, the evidence for Ei 
mufi ret on cripture, - There can L. no phenomena, from 
which 
