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IT being manifest that both of them are fires, let vs examine how fire is made amongst vs: for it is made in the same sort, as it is a∣boue vs, and that in two so••ts; the one is when it is enforced out of a flint stone; the other is, if it be found out by attrition, as when as two woods are long times rubbed the one against the other: e∣uery
matter will not yeelde thee fire, but onely that which is proper to pro∣duce it, a•• the leaues of Lawrell, ••u••e, and which the shepheards (perfectly ex∣ercised therein) well know. It may therfore be that in the same sort the clouds are strucken, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 beaten one against an other, and thereby yeelde fire•• Let vs consider with wh•••• force stormes rush in vpon vs, with what violence whirle∣wi••des ••••e tur••ed, wha••soeue•• this storme mee••eth withall, is scattered, spred and rauished, and cast farre from the place where it was•• what wonder is it therefore if so great a force driue forth the fire, eyther from an other thing or from himselfe? for thou seest what heate those bodies may feele that are bla∣sted, burned and ••laine by their passing: by them yet ought wee not to esteeme that these impressions haue as much heat as there is in the stars, whose power is both ma••u••ilous and confessed.
A comparison take•• from ma∣teriall fire, and that which is terrestriall, that serueth to ex∣presse how light∣nings and tem∣pests grow.