An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Secondly, Seeing the Clouds are such mighty bodies, and contain (as I may say) whole seas of water in them, and water, being a heavy body, naturally descends or tends downward (as all heavy things do) it may be questioned (and indeed it is a wonder) how those Clouds are kept aloft in the Air? how comes it to pass that such heavy bodies, such floods of water do not presently fall violently, and at once shed themselves down upon, and overwhelm the earth? To that I answer,

Secondly, Seeing the Clouds are such mighty bodies, and contain (as I may say) whole seas of water in them, and water, being a heavy body, naturally descends or tends downward (as all heavy things do) it may be questioned (and indeed it is a wonder) how those Clouds are k•pt aloft in the Aire? how comes it to pass that such heavy bodies, such floods of water do not presently fall violently, and at once shed themselves down upon, and overwhelme the earth? To that I answer,

First, Some say the Clouds are kept up by that natural inbred heat or warmth which is included in them; or that they are kept up by the superior heat of the Sun, and Stars, which first drew them up.

First, Some say the Clouds are kept up by that natural inbred heat or warmth which is included in them; or that they are kept up by the superiour heat of the Sun, and Stars, which first drew them up.

Secondly, Others say, these mighty Clouds are held up by ⟨p. 402⟩the wind; which keeping them in perpetual motion, they fall not, they descend no•, but according to a divine order, by which they are disposed of to several uses.