Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

The Earth and Heavens. He names here the most stable parts of the world, and the most beautiful parts of the Creation; those that are freest from corruptibility and change, to illustrate thereby the Immutability of God; that though the Heavens and Earth have a Prerogative of fixedness above other parts of the world, and the Creatures that reside below; the Heavens remain the same as they were created, and the Centre of the Earth retains its fixedness, and are as beautiful and fresh in their age as they were in their youth many years ago, notwithstanding the change of the Elements; Fire and Water being often turned into Air, so that there may remain but little of that Air which was first created by reason of the continual transmutation; yet this firmness of the Earth and Heavens, is not to be regarded in comparison of the unmoveableness and fixedness of the Being of God: As their beauty comes short of the glory of his Being, so doth their firmness come short of his stability.

The Earth and Heavens. He names here the most stable parts of the world, and the most beautiful parts of the Creation; those that are freest from corruptibility and change, to illustrate thereby the Immutability of God; that though the Heavens and Earth have a Prerogative of fixedness above other parts of the world, and the Creatures that reside below; the Heavens remain the same as they were created, and the Center of the Earth retains its fixedness, and are as beautiful and fresh in their age as they were in their youth many years ago, notwithstanding the change of the Elements; Fire and Water being often turned into Air, so that there may remain but little of that Air which was first created by reason of the continual transmutation; yet this firmness of the Earth and Heavens, is not to be regarded in comparison of the unmoveableness and fixedness of the Being of God: As their beauty comes short of the glory of his Being, so doth their firmness come short of his stability.

Some by Heavens and Earth, understand the Creatures which reside in the Earth, and those which are in the Air, which is called Heaven often in Scripture; but the ruin and fall of these being seen every day, had been no fit illustration of the unchangeableness of God.