An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

The heavens and stars are for signs, but they are not infallible signs. They are ordinary signs of the change of weather, Mat. 16.2, 3. They are ordinary signs of the seasons of the year, Spring and Summer, and harvest and winter; they are ordinary signs of a fit time to till and manure the ground, to plough, sow and reap. The earth is fitted and prepared for culture by the motion of the heavens. The heavens are at once the Alphabet of the power and wisdom of God, and of our works: we may read there when to do many businesses. Gen. 8.22. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Those seasons shall continually return according to the time of the year, measured by the Sun, Moon and Stars. Thus, they are signs of ordinary events. And God sometimes puts the sign of an extraordinary event in them, Mat. 24.29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the Sun be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken; which, some understand allegorically; others literally of strange apparitions and impressions in heaven, either before the destruction of Jerusalem, or the day of judgement. So Act. 2.19, 20, &c. Thus God puts a sign in them of extraordinary events.

The heavens and stars are for signs, but they are not infallible signs. They are ordinary signs of the change of weather, Mat. 16.2, 3. They are ordinary signs of the seasons of the year, Spring and Summer, and harvest and winter; they are ordinary signs of a fit time to till and manure the ground, to plow, sowe and reap. The earth is fitted and prepared for culture by the motion of the heavens. The heavens are at once the Alphabet of the power and wisdom of God, and of our works: we may read there when to do many businesses. Gen. 8.22. While the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. Those seasons shall continually return according to the time of the year, measured by the Sun, Moon and Stars. Thus, they are signs of ordinary events. And God sometimes puts the sign of an extraordinary event in them,