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John Trapp on Job 38:33

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Job38:33

Verſe 33. Kn[illegible: 1 letter]weſt thou the Ordinances of heaven?] Either how to order them, as Maſter over them,Diod. or to comprehend what they are certainly and perfectly

Canſt thou ſet the dominion thereof in the earth?] As well in regard of the motion of the heavens, which varieth the ſeaſons of the year, as of the influences and vertue which cometh from thence. For they who think that the ſuperior bodies have no power at all upon theſe inferiour, do go againſt common ſenſe and experience, yea, this and many other texts of Scriptures; which yet make nothing at all for that Judiciary Aſtrology ſo much cryed up, in theſe laſt and worſt dayes of the world, by ſome who would have the manners, ſtudies and events of every man to depend upon the ſtars, yea, the riſe and ruine of Kingdomes, Arts, Religion, &c.

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