1In this we may observe, the great power of God in upholding the earth. We see what the pillars of the earth are, the supposed pillars are no other then the lower parts of the earth; and the true pillar of the earth is no other, but the power of God: there are no other buttresses or pillars upon which the earth is set, or by which it is sustained; This huge weight of the whole earth and seas, is borne up by the thin air. Is not this an argument of the mighty power of God, that the air which is a body so weak, that if you throw a feather up into it, it will not stay there, but descend, yet the whole mass or globe of earth and waters hangs there? God poiseth it merely by its own weight: For he weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in balances, Isa. 40.12. He upholds all things by the word of his power, And hath built this great Castle in the air. Could we enter into the secrets of nature, and set our faith a work by our senses about these things, we should be raised above all fear in the greatest difficulties. If we saw but a bullet, or a piece of lead of a pound, yea of a penny weight, lifted up and hang in the air without any thing to support it, we would conclude it a miracle. What think you, when all the lead, and iron, ⟨p. 187⟩and brass, and stone that is in the world hang in the air without any visible stay?
1In this we may observe, the great power of God in upholding the earth. We see what the pillars of the earth are, the supposed pillars are no other then the lower parts of the earth; and the true pillar of the earth is no other, but the power of God: there are no other buttresses or pillars upon which the earth is set, or by which it is sustained; This huge weight of the whole earth and seas, is borne up by the thin air. Is not this an argument of the mighty power of God, that the air which is a body so weak, that if you throw a feather up into it, it will not stay there, but descend, yet the whole masse or globe of earth and waters hangs there? God poiseth it meerly by its own weight: For he weighed the mountains in scales, and the hils in balances, Isa. 40.12. He upholds all things by the word of his power, And hath built this great Castle in the air. Could we enter into the secrets of nature, and set our faith a work by our senses about these things, we should be raised above all fear in the greatest difficulties. If we saw but a bullet, or a piece of lead of a pound, yea of a peny weight, lifted up and hang in the air without any thing to support it, we would conclude it a miracle. What thinke you, when all the lead, and iron, ⟨p. 187⟩and brasse, and stone that is in the world hang in the air without any visible stay?
- 1Quo pacto terra firma & immota consistit? quidnā pro vehiculo habet? cujus rei adminiculo fulcitur? rationi nihil occurrit cui innitatur, si divinam voluntatem exceperis Greg Nazianz Orat. 34. Suis l brata ponderibus fixa manet.Quo pacto terra firma & immota consistit? quidnā pro vehiculo habet? cujus rei adminiculo fulcitur? rationi nihil occurrit cui innitatur, si divinam voluntatem exceperis Greg Nazianz Orat. 34. Suis l brata ponderibus fixa manet.
