Jaws. Then Heaven and Earth being renew'd, fhall be purify'd to fuch a Degree of Sanctity, as fhall be incapable of Impurity; 'till then the Curfe pronounced on SIN and DEATH fhall lead them on.

He ended, and the heavenly Audience fung aloud HALLELUJAH, loud as the Sound of Seas, by Reason of the Multitude that fung. "Juft are thy Ways, " and thy Decrees are righteous on all thy Works; "who can diminish thee? Next to the SoN, the de"ftin'd Restorer of MANKIND, be Glory; by whom "the new Heaven and Earth fhall be renew'd out of "the old, or else defcend down from Heaven," Such was their Song, while He, the great CREATOR, calling forth his mighty Angels by Name, gave them their feveral Charges, as fuited beft with the present State of Things. The Sun had first his Command to move fo, and fo to fhine, as might affect the Earth with Heat and Cold scarcely tolerable, to call decripit Winter from the North, and from the South to bring Solftitial (n) Summer's Heat. To the pale Moon they prefcrib'd her Office: To the other five Planets (0), their Motions in their feveral Orbs and Afpects, in Sextile, (p) Square, (q) and Trine, (r) and

(1) Solftitial, of the Solftice; Lat. i. e. The Standing of the Sun. An Aftron. Term. The Summer Solstice falls on the 11th of June, and the Winter Solftice on the 11th of December; to which two Points of the Tropicks when the Sun comes, there is no fenfible Increase or Decrease of the Day and Night for a little Time; it feems to be at a Stand. Here the first is meant.

(o) Planets; Gr. i. e. Wandering. Here, moving in their feveral Orbs. Here fe

veral Terms of Aftrology and Aftronomy occur, in a continued Digraffion; according to Aftrologers, the Planets make feveral Angles or Aspects, in their Motions through the 12 Signs; the chief are, Conjunction, mark'd 6; Sextile, *; Quadrate, ; Trine, ▲ ; Oppofite, 8.

(p) Sextile; Lat. An Aftron. T. i. e. Of the Sixth. An Afpect, when two Planets are diftant 60 Degrees, or one fixth Part of the Zodiac.

and Oppofite, (s) of hurtful and unbenign Influence; and the Angels likewife by GoD's Command, taught the fix'd 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 push'd the Earth, fix'd on her Center, out of her firft Place. Some fay, the Sun was bid to turn from the Equinoctial Road, a like diftant Breadth to TAURUS, with the feven Stars that are call'd Sifters, (which are the PLEIADES) and GEMINI, (t) up to the Tropick of CAN

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(g) Square; Lat. An Aftrol. T. i. e. Four-corner'd. Afpect 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 distant from one another 120 Degrees, which is a third Part of the Zodiac.

(s) Oppofite; Lat. An Afrolog. Term. i. e. Over-againft; facing. An Afpect, when two Planets are diftant 180 Degrees, diametrically oppofite, or directly facing one another, which is one half Part of the Zodiac. This Aftrologers call a bad Af pect; which forebodes Evil to those that are born under it. Two heavenly Bodies are faid to be in Conjunction with one another, 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.

(t) 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 11th King of it after their Father, and reign'd cotemporary. They are feign'd to be the Sign Gemini, by fabulous Antiquity, and were much in Veneration among the Heathens. See As 28. 11. They are Stars of the fecond Magnitude, which form the two Heads of Gemini,, the third of the twelve Signs of the Zodiac.

CANCER; (u) thence down amain by LEO, (x) VIRGO, (y) and LIBRA, (2) as low as CAPRICORN, (a) to bring in Change of Seafons to each Climate; elfe the Spring had fmil'd perpetually upon the Earth, with continual blooming Flowers, equal in Days and Nights, except to those 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 East 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 confifts 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 10th 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 12th of Auguft yearly. This is Aftrea the Goddefs of Juftice, who left the Earth because of the Wickednefs of Men after the Fall, and flew up to Heaven; where the

weighs, confiders, and examines all Actions of Men and Things, as the Poets feign'd.

(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 borned Goat; because then the Sun at this Point climbs upwárd again in its annual Course, like that climbing Creature the Goat. An Aftron. T. The 1oth 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) Efotiland; Saved. i. e. Another Land. It was called fo by fome Fishermen of Friezland, who first discover'd it, long before Columbus. It was afterwards discovered by Nicho las and Andrew Zeni, Veneti

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AT the Tafte of the forbidden Fruit, (as it is faid he did from the bloody Banquet of THYESTES (d)) the Sun chang'd his firft 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 produc'd, (though flowly) like Change upon Sea and Land, Star-blaft, Vapour, Mist, and hot corrupt and peftilent Exhalation! Now the Winds from the North, BORE

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 Cartereal; because Gafpar Cortereal difcovered it; and now New Britain by the French and Britains. This is the moft Northern Country of America, extending towards the Eaft and Hudson's Bay; extremely cold, mountainous, over-run with Forefts and wild Beafts. The Inhabitants go naked, notwithstanding the extreme Cold, and are Idolaters for the most Part.

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ftian Cabot, a Venetian, A. D. 1497, by Commiffion from Hen. VII. of England, furnish'd two Ships with 300 Men in England, at his own Expence; and discovered all the North Coast, from 28 to 56 Degrees of Northern Latitude, 20 Years before any other Europeans.

(c) Magellan; Portug. A waft Country in South America,

extending towards the South Pole, not yet well difcovered nor inhabited by the Europeans. This, with the Streights, which part it from the Continent of South America, took their Names from Ferdinand Magellan or Maglianes, a Portuguese, who difcovered them A. D. 1519 and 1520, by the Order and Affiftance of the Emperor Charles V. But he was poifoned in the Ifland de los Ladrones, i. e. The Ile of Robbers; or died in the Ifland of Maran, A. D. 1520.

(d) Thyefies; Gr. i. e. A Murderer. The Son of Pelops, and Brother of Atreus. Thyeftes committed Adultery with his Brother's Wife; to revenge it Atreus flew the Son that was born of her, and ferv'd him up to his own Brother at a Feaft. At this horrid Wickedness, it is faid, the Sun turn'd back his Course for a Time, left he fhould be polluted. Such an Abhorrence the blind Heathens had of thofe heinous Crimes.

BOREAS, (e) CECIAS, (f) ARGESTES, (g) and THRASCIAS, (b) bursting their brazen Dungeon from NORUMBEQUE, (i) and the Shore of SA MOED, (k) arm'd with Ice, Snow, Hail, and Storms, rend up the Woods, and turn up the Seas: NOTUS, () and AFER, (m) black with Thunder-Clouds from SERRALIONA, (2) turn them up with adverse Blaft from the South: Acrofs thefe forth rufh with equal Fierceness, the LEVANT (0) and Ponent (p) Winds, EU

(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 - Weft Wind.

(g) Argeftes; 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.

(i) Norumbeque; from the French, Americ. A large Country of North America, having Nova Scotia on the South-West, 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

(m) Afer; Gr. i. e. Blowing from Africa. The South-West 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; so called from a Chain of Mountains, that reach to the Atlantic Ocean, which beats upon these Rocks, and makes a Noise like the Roaring of a Lion. Anciently Theoon 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.

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