Earth] Though the Earth be firme and stable in it selfe, yet some derive the Hebrew word Erets from ruts, which signifieth to runne, because being made dry, it was meete for living creatures to runne upon it: some deriv it from Ratson, signifying good pleasure and so it importeth that not by any naturall necessitie or operation was this separation made, but by Gods free-will &good pleasure to make both elements more beneficiall and pleasant to the creatures of severall kinds. Seas] The word here first brought in in the plurall number (as it is else-where) is used many times also in the singular; as Genesis 22:7. Hosea 11:10. Micah 7:12. Psalms 8:10. (where also it is used in the plurall number) and though in every place where there is water, if it be but a bason-full, there be a collection of waters, which is made up of many drops; as one oafe of many graines, yet it is applied onely, or for the most part, to a copios collection of waters. And it may well be used in the plurall number because of the pluralitie of significations; naturall, artificiall, and figurative: naturall, as for the severall sorts of seas, the great Sea, Joshua 23:4. or Mediterranean Sea, called also the Occidentall, or Westerne Sea, because in respect of Jerusalem that Sea is West-ward; the Red Sea, called Mare Suph, or the Sedgie Sea, through which the Israelites passed, and in which the Egyptians were after drowned, Exodus 14:22. 26, 27. the Salt Sea, Numbers 34:3. 12. called by Josephus, the Lake Asphaltis, or Asphaltites, whereof he makes a memorable and admirable description in his story of the Warres of the Jewes, 50: 5. 100: 5. the Sea of Chinnereth, Numbers 34:11. called usually the Lake of Gennesareth, Luke 5:1. and the Sea of Galile, and of Tiberias, John 6:1. which (as Pliny measureth it) is sixteene miles long, and sixe miles broad, Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 5. cap. 15. And there is a pluralitie of Seas yet further varied according to the Countreys on which they border, as the Arabian, and Persian, the Spanish, and British Sea, &c.