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…

The power and wisdom of God shine eminently in the stars.

The power and wisdome of God shine eminently in the stars.

The power and wisdom of God shine in every grass that grows out of the ground, yea in every clod of earth much more then in the stars of heaven. Much of God is seen in those works of God; yea, so much, that many have been drawn to make them gods. There is so much of God seen in the heavens, that not only Heathens, who had not the true knowledge of God: but his ⟨p. 215⟩Covenant-people, who knew him, and whom he knew above all the Families of the earth, have been drawn away to worship the host of heaven. That place before cited (Deut. 4.) hinteth as much, Take heed, lest when thou liftest up thine eyes to heaven, and seest the Sun, and the Moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them. If thou lift up thine eyes to the stars, and not higher, even to God who made the stars, thou wilt quickly mistake the stars for God, or make the stars thy god; the heart of man is mad upon idolatry. Read how often the Jews are taxed with this sin, 2 King. 21.3. and in 2 King. 17.16. and in Amos 5.26. which clears this truth, that much of the power and wisdom of God is stamped upon the stars; if God did not much appear in the stars, so many had not taken the stars for God, or given them, which is proper and peculiar to God, religious worship.

The power and wisdome of God shine in every grasse that grows out of the ground, yea in every clod of earth much more then in the stars of heaven. Much of God is seen in those works of God; yea, so much, that many have been drawn to make them gods. There is so much of God seen in the heavens, that not only Heathens, who had not the true knowledge of God: but his