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…

So then, taking this speech either for the removing of natural mountains, or taking it proverbially, as it noteth the doing of the greatest things, and putting forth of the greatest power, it proveth the point, which Job hath here in hand, viz. That God is ⟨p. 176⟩mighty in strength; Why? He is able to remove mountains. Observe from hence,

So then, taking this speech either for the removing of naturall mountains, or taking it proverbially, as it noteth the doing of the greatest things, and putting forth of the greatest power, it proveth the point, which Job hath here in hand, viz. That God is ⟨p. 176⟩mighty in strength; Why? He is able to remove mountains. Observe from hence,

First, That the Lord if he pleaseth can alter and remove the parts of the earth, and change the frame and fabric of nature.

First, That the Lord if he pleaseth can alter and remove the parts of the earth, and change the frame and fabrique of nature.

He that made the mountains unmoveable to us, can himself remove them. The Histories and Records of former times, tell us how God hath miraculously tossed mountains out of their places. Josephus in his ninth book of Antiquities,¹ cap. 11. mentions the removing of a mountain; and Pliny in the eighth book of his natural History, Cap. 30. A later writer reports that in Burgundy, in the year, 1230. there were mountains seen moving, which overthrew many houses, to the great terror of all the inhabitants of those countries. Josephus also reports the like done by an earthquake. And another tells us of Mount Ossa joined to Olympus by an earth-quake. So that take it in the letter, the Lord is able to remove mountains.