fountaines of the deepe] To make the flood there was as it were a secret conspiracie and concurrence of waters under ground with the Rivers and Seas above; betwixt these there is such commerce and communion that from the Sea the Rivers runne, and to it they make their returne againe, Ecclesiastes 1:7. yet whether the Sea made any augmentation of the waters on the earth, it is uncertaine; and though some affirme it, others deny it upon this reason, for that the Sea was to swell higher as well as the waters on the Land; but now with the passage of this wind, and Gods powerfull cooperation with it, that passage of secret confluence of and entercourse betwixt the waters was stopped to make the flood to asswage, which before was opened to make it swell. See Annot. on Chap. 7. vers. 11. windowes of heaven] See Annot. on Chap. 7. vers. 11. restrained] The raine was of Gods sending, Chap. 6. vers. 17. Chap. 7. vers. 4. and the restraint of it was of his making; second causes are so stinted and confined in their operations, that they cause not contraries, unlesse by accident; as the fire burnes the hotter when the aire about it is the colder, and the middle Region of the Aire is so much the colder, as that on both sides it is the hotter; but the first cause equally produceth the most repugnant effects; as in the generall good and evill, Job 2:10. good without exception, evill with distinction; for the evill of sinne is from man or Satan, the evill of paine or punishment from God; of this evill the words of Job are to be understood, and of Amos, Chap. 3. 6. and in particular in the creatures that bring forth he causeth fruitfulnesse, Genesis 1:28. Malachi 3:10-11. and barrennesse, Deuteronomy 28:38-40. Joe 1:10-12. in living creatures, health and sicknesse, Exodus 9:9-11. life and death, 1 Samuel 2:6. to men he dispenseth as he pleaseth riches and povertie, advancement and debasment, 1 Samuel 2:7. peace and warre, Isaiah 45:7. in the aire he maketh light and darknesse, Genesis 1:2-3. Isaiah 45:7. in the water calme and tempest by his word, Matthew 8:26. Jonah 1:4. and he hath them all so subject unto him, that, as the Centurion said of his souldiers, Matthew 8:9. they goe at his command, and come at his call; if then we desire any good thing let us addresse our devotions to him from whom is every good and perfect gift, James 1:17.