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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…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
David shows us (Psal. 24.1, 2.) The earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein: for he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. It is strange that pillars of liquid water should bear up the massive earth; the earth seems rather to be the pillar and foundation of the waters. Some interpret (super) which signifies, upon, by prope or juxta near, he hath founded it upon the seas, that is, He hath founded it by, or near the seas. But take it in the letter, and it is a truth: for the sea is as much the pillar of the earth, as the earth is the pillar of the sea; earth and sea being a globe and round, the sea is as much under the earth, as the earth is under the sea. Thus the pillars of the earth are waters, And the earth is established upon the floods.
David shews us (Psal. 24.1, 2.) The earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein: for he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the flouds. It is strange that pillars of liquid water should bear up the massie earth; the earth seems rather to be the pillar and foundation of the waters. Some interpret (super) which signifies, upon, by prope or juxta neer, he hath founded it upon the seas, that is, He hath founded it by, or neer the seas. But take it in the letter, and it is a truth: for the sea is as much the pillar of the earth, as the earth is the pillar of the sea; earth and sea being a globe and round, the sea is as much under the earth, as the earth is under the sea. Thus the pillars of the earth are waters, And the earth is established upon the flouds.
Further, If you would know what these pillars are, hear what Job saith, (Chap. 26.7.) where he assures us that God hangeth the earth upon nothing. We are not to think that the Lord in framing and building the earth did first set up pillars, and then set the earth upon them, for the earth hangeth as a ball in the midst of the air, without any pillars under it. Hence Jobs Philosophy teaches us, That he hangeth the earth upon nothing; there are no material or visible pillars to sustain it.