A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

First, how it was caused: It was a work of Almighty power, which also used •he concurrence of some natural means.^c All the fountains of the great deep were •oken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. The Hebrews have called soundness Gnaiim, which signifieth an eye: eyes being like fountains to distil tears. This eruption of the great Deep, was not the Tartarean waters about the centre of •he earth: they could not surge so high. But either the Sea, which some think to •e higher than the earth, and restrained only by Gods providence from overflowing it.^d Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stay•d. In nature it is acknowledged, that the place of waters is above the earth: therefore Aristotle calls it a strange thing, Ut levius sit graviore inferius. Indeed the wa•ers were created higher, but depressed by Gods command. At first thou didst Cover the earth with the deep, as with a garment,^e and the waters stood above the mountains. But at thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains, and down by the valleys, unto the place which thou •ast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound which they shall not pass over, nor •ne again to cover the earth. The sand is this bound by^f a perpetual decree: though •hey toss, and roar, they shall not prevail. And it is fondly imagined, that the ••a is now higher than the earth.^g They that go down to the sea in ships, Down, •herefore not higher.