An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

That is, when and where it should break forth and appear every morning. The day-spring is expressed by a different word in the original from the morning light; it implieth the first of the morning, when the air is darkish or duskish; we commonly call it the grey of the morning. The word signifies to be dark, or that darkness, which we call twilight. When the day-spring ushers in the morning, there is a kind of dimness in the light. Now saith the Lord, Hast thou caused the day-spring to know its place? hast thou taught it, where to show it self to the world? The Lord speaks near of the day-spring, as if it were a rational creature, that took instructions, or a word of direction, where to begin the morning light. God, not man, hath taught the day-spring to know its place. We have a like expression (Psal. 16.11.) Thou wilt show me (or thou wilt cause me to know) the path of life. Thus the Lord makes the day-spring know the path to its own place. The day never springs twice immediately in one place, but is in a continual variation, as Astronomers with experience teach. The place of the light or Sun-rising differeth every morning, and from thence we have the difference of the days. The Sun passing through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, beginning with Aries, &c. (I shall not trouble you with their names, which have been devised and are used only for learning sake, the Sun, I say, passing every year th•ough these twelve Signs, all which Astronomers present unto us under various forms or figures, such as themselves fancied most useful to subserve the understanding of that Art) according to the situation of these Signs, through which the Sun runs his course in the Heavens, the day-spring to us on Earth changeth its place every day, appearing sometimes more southerly, and sometimes more easterly, as the Sun either ascends to the Summer Solstice, at which time the day is at longest, and the night at shortest, as about the eleventh of our Month ⟨p. 127⟩called June; or when it descends to the Winter Solstice, at which time the day is shortest, and the night longest, as about the eleventh of our December. To which we may add the Suns coming in its ascending course to the middle point of the heavens, which makes the Vernal Equinox, at which time the day and night are of an equal length, as about the eleventh of out March;

That is, when and where it should break forth and appear every morning. The day-spring is exprest by a different word in the original from the morning light; it implieth the first of the morning, when the air is darkish or duskish; we commonly call it the gray of the morning. The word signifies to be dark, or that darkness, which we call twilight. When the day-spring ushers in the morning, there is a kind of dimness in the light. Now saith the Lord, Hast thou caused the day-spring to know its place? hast thou taught it, where to shew it self to the world? The Lord speaks nere of the day-spring, as if it were a rational creature, that took instructions, or a word of direction, where to begin the morning light. God, not man, hath taught the day-spring to know its place. We have a like expression (