An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Or we may make the connection with the later clause of the former verse. Job having said that the Lord treadeth upon the high waves of the sea; that when the seas are most stormy and tempestuous, they are at his command, and that their confusions are under his Empire and order; he adds this verse by way of answer to a possible ⟨p. 207⟩objection. For some might say, the motion of the seas is from the power and influences of the stars,¹ from the rising and setting of the moon, with other planets and constellations. True, saith Job, yet the Lord is he that treadeth upon the waves of the sea, it is the Lord that orders them, and not the stars: Though the stars and constellations have a dominion over the seas in their ebbings and flowings, motions and revolutions, yet there is a Lord who hath power, not only over the seas, but over that which over-powers the seas, even over the stars of heaven. He maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South; which stars, according to the doctrine of Astronomy, have a special power upon the seas.

Or we may make the connexion with the later clause of the former verse. Job having said that the Lord treadeth upon the high waves of the sea; that when the seas are most stormy and tempestuous, they are at his command, and that their confusions are under his Empire and order; he adds this verse by way of answer to a possible ⟨p. 207⟩objection. For some might say, the motion of the seas is from the power and influences of the stars,¹ from the rising and setting of the moon, with other planets and constellations. True, saith Job, yet the Lord is he that treadeth upon the waves of the sea, it is the Lord that orders them, and not the stars: Though the stars and constellations have a dominion over the seas in their ebbings and flowings, motions and revolutions, yet there is a Lord who hath power, not only over the seas, but over that which over-powers the seas, even over the stars of heaven. He maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South; which stars, according to the doctrine of Astronomy, have a speciall power upon the seas.