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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.
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.
- 1Terrae columnae, infimas terrae partes significant, quae reliquam terrae molem impositam sustineat; haec sunt veluti fundamenta & fulcra terrae.
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,