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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.
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.
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 materiall or visible pillars to sustain it.
What is then the pillar of the earth? What is it that supports and bears it up? The real pillar of the earth it is the power of God. But the power of God cannot tremble? How then doth he say, When he shaketh the earth, the pillars thereof tremble?
What is then the pillar of the earth? What is it that supports and bears it up? The reall pillar of the earth it is the power of God. But the power of God cannot tremble? How then doth he say, When he shaketh the earth, the pillars thereof tremble?
1In this place therefore we may expound the pillars of the earth, for the lower parts of the earth, and so, though the whole globe of the earth taken together be neither higher nor lower, yet in the parts of it from any point, some are higher, and some are lower, some above, and some beneath; upon what superficies soever we are, the under parts thereof are (to us) the pillars of the earth. So the meaning is, He shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble; that is, he shaketh it so terribly, that if it had any outward visible pillars, those pillars must needs tremble.