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and Oppofite (s) of hurtful and unbenign Influence; and the Angels likewife by GoD's Command, taught the fixed Stars when to fhower their Malignancy; which of them falling or rifing with the Sun fhould prove tempeftuous. They fet the Corners to the Winds, and taught them when with Bluftering to confound the Sea, Land, and Air; and the Thunder where to rowl with Terror through the dark Clouds. Some fay, GOD bid his Angels turn the Poles of the Earth more than twenty Degrees from the Sun's Road; and that they with Labour pufhed the Earth, fixed on her Center, out of her first Place. Some fay, the Sun was bid to turn from the Equinoctial Road, a like distant Breadth to TAURUS, with the feven Stars that are called Sifters, (which are the PLEIADES) and GEMINI (), up to the Tropick of

(g) Square; Lat. An Aftrol. T. i. e. Four-cornered. An Aspect between two Planets,

which are diftant 90 Degrees from one another, i. e. one fourth Part of the Zodiac. It is counted an unfortunate Conjunction by the Aftrologers.

(r) Trine; Lat. An Aftrol. T. i. e. A Third. An Afpect, when two Planets are diftant from one another 120 Degrees, which is a third Part of the Zodiac.

(s) Oppofite; Lat. An Aftrolog. Term. i. e. Over against ; facing. An Afpect, when two Planets are diflant 180 Degrees, diametrically oppofite, or directly facing one another, which is one half part of the Zodiac. This Aftrologers call a bad Afpect; which forebodes Evil to thofe that are born under it. Two heavenly Bodies are faid to be in Conjunction with one ano

ther, when they are in the fame Semi-circle of Latitude, and to be in Oppofition, as they are in oppofite Semi-circles of Latitude; the Circles being divided into Semi circles of Latitude, by the Axis of the great Ecliptick.

(1) Gemini, Twins; Sax. Two Children born at one Birth. Here, Caftor and Pollux, Sons of Tindaurus and Leda, King of Sparta; born there, and at the fame time. Caftor and Pollux, i. e. Adorned and shining, were the eleventh King of it after their Father, and reigned cotemporary. They are feigned to be the Sign Gemini, by fabulous Antiquity, and were much in Veneration among the Heathens. See A&ts xxviii. They are Stars of the fecond Magnitude, which form the two Heads of Gemini, the third of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac.

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CANCER (u); thence down amain by LEO (x); VIRGO (y), and LIBRA (z), as low as CAP R ICORN (a), to bring in Change of Seafons to each Climate, elfe the Spring had fmiled perpetually upon the Earth, with continual blooming Flowers, equal in Days and Nights, except to thofe beyond the Polar Circles; to them Day had fhone without Night, while the low Sun, to make Amends for his being at fo great a Distance, had always gone round the Horizon in their Sight, and not known Eaft or Weft; which had forbid the Snow from cold ESTOTILAND (b), and South as far beneath MAGELLAN (c).

(u) Cancer; because the Sun moves back the fame Way as the Crab doth; or because it confits of nine Stars in the Shape of a Crab; the fourth of the twelve Signs; the Sun enters into this Sign on the 10th of June. Here, the Tropic of Cancer, or the Northern Tropic.

(x) Leo; Lat. from the Gr. The Lion. Here, An Aftron. T. The 5th of the 12 Signs, into which the Sun enters in the twenty-firft of July. This Conftellation hath 27 Stars about it.

(y) Virgo, Virgin; Lat. i. e. Strong; a chafte Maid, a Maiden in her Bloom and Strength. Here an Aftron. T. The 6th of the 12 Signs. It confifts of 26 Stars; the Sun enters into it in the twenty-third of Auguft yearly. This is Afiraa the Goddefs of Juftice, who left the Earth because of the Wickednefs of Men after the Fall, and flew up to Heaven; where the

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weighs, confiders, and examines all the Actions of Menand Things, as the Poets feigned.

(z) Libra; i. e. A Balance, or Pair of Scales. Here an Aftron. T. The 7th of the 12 Signs, into which the Sun enters in the 13th of September. It is the first of the fix Southern Signs of the Zodiac.

(a) Capricorn; Lat. i. e. An horned Goat; because then the Sun at this Point climbs upward again in its annual Course, like that climbing Creature the Goat. An Aftron. T. The 10th of the 12 Signs. It confifts of 21 Stars; the Sun enters into it in the 11th of December, and makes the Winter Solstice. It is the Southern Tropic.

(b) Eflotiland; Swed. i. e. Another Land. It was called fo by fome Fishermen of Friezland, who first discovered it, long before Columbus. It was afterwards difcovered by Nicho- . las and Andrew Zeni, Veneti

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AT the Taste of the forbidden Fruit, (as it is faid. he did from the bloody Banquet of THYESTES (d)) the Sun changed his Courfe; elfe how had the World, that would have been inhabited all over as well as EDEN, (though they had been without SIN) have more than now avoided pinching Cold and fcorching Heat? Thefe Changes in Heaven produced, (though flowly) like Change upon Sea and Land, Star-blaft, Vapour, Mift, and hot corrupt and peftilent Exhalation! Now the Winds from the North,

ans; by the Portuguese, and called Terrade Labrador, i. e. The Land of the Labourer, because it required much Pains to cultivate it; by the Spaniards, Terra de Cortereal; because Gafper Cortereal discovered it; and now New Britain by the French and Britains. This is the most Northern Country of America, extending towards the Eat and Hudson's Bay; extremely cold, mountainous, 0ver-run with Forefts and- wild Beafts. The Inhabitants go naked, notwithstanding the extreme Cold, and are Idolaters for the moft Part. Sebaflian Cabot, a Venetian, A. D. 1479, by Commission from Hen. VII. of England, furnished two Ships with 300 Men in England, at his own Expence; and difcovered all the North Coast, from 28 to 56 Degrees of Northern Latitude, 20 Years before any other Europeans.

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BOREAS (e) CACIAS (f), AR GESTES (g), and THRACIAS (b), bursting their brazen Dungeon from NORUMBEQUE (i), and the Shore of SAMOED (k), armed with Ice, Snow, Hail, and Storms, rend up the Woods, and turn up the Seas: NOTUS (1), and AFER (m), black with Thunder-Clouds from SERRALIONA (n), turn then up with adverfe Blast from the South: Across these forth rush with equal Fiercenefs, the LEVANT (0) and Ponent (p) Winds,

(e) Boreas; Lat. from the Gr. i. e. A roaring violent Sound. The North Wind fo called from the Sound and Force of it.

(f) Cacias; Lat. Gr. from Caycus, i. e. Drawing Evil. It is a River of Myfia in Leffer Afia near the Hellefpont, from which this Wind blows upon Greece; and gathers Clouds together by a ftrong attractive Power. The North - West Wind.

(8) Argefies; Lat. Gr. i. e. White as Silver; because it clears the Sky, making it clear as Silver. The North - Eaft Wind.

(b) Thrafcias; Lat. Gr. i. e. Blowing from Thrace, now Romania in Europe, upon Greece, from the North. The North Wind.

(1) Norumbeque; from the French, Americ. A large Country of North America, having Nova Scotia on the South-Weft. New England on the NorthWeft, and the Ocean on the South; from the Capital City of the fame Name.

(k) Samoed, or Samoieda; Ruff. i. e. Cannibals or Men

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Eaters. A Province in the North East of Moscovy, upon the Icy Sea, on both Sides of the River Ob; and joining to Siberia. The People are very rude and favage, Idolaters to this Day. Stephen Burroughs, an Englishman, first discovered this Country, A. D. 1556.

(2) Notus: Lat. from the Gr. i. e. moift, and wet. Hence Ovid calls it watery. The South Wind.

(m) Afer; Gr. i. e. Blowing from Africa. The South-Welt Wind, which lies South from Greece.

(n) Serraliona, in the late Edit. Sierra Liona, Span. i. e. The Lion Mountains; vulgo Cap' di Sierra Liona; fo called from a Chain of Mountains, that reach to the Atlantic Ocean, which beats upon these Rocks, and makes a Noife like the Roaring of a Lion. Anciently Theron Ochema, Gr. i. e. The Chariot of the Gods. It is the most Western Point of Africa, on the Frontiers of Nigritia and Guinea, and within a few Leagues of Cape Verd.

(2) Levant; Fr. from the Lat. i. e. Rifing. The Eaft, or Eastern

EURUS (9), and ZEPHYR; with their SideWinds SIROCco (s), and LIBECCHIO (t). Thus Outrage began from Things without Life: But DISCORD (the Daughter of SIN) first introduced DEATH among the irrational Creatures, through fierce Antipathy: Beat now began to fight with Beaft, Fowl with Fowl, and Fifh with Fifh, all leaving to graze upon the Grass devoured one another; nor did they ftand much in Awe of MAN, but fled from him, or paffing by him, glared on him with a grim Counte

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Adam bewails his fallen Condition; Eve endeavours to appeafe him, but does not fucceed. He exhorts her to feck Peace by Repentance.

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HESE were the growing Miferies from without, which ADAM in Part already faw, though hid in the gloomieft Shade, and abandoned to Sorrow: But within himfelf he felt worfe Mifery, and his Mind was toffed and thrown up and down in a troubled Sea of difordered Paffions;

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