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…

I find some interpreting this clause as the former, in a figurative sense, He shaketh the earth, that is, States, Kingdoms and Common-wealths; And the pillars thereof tremble; that is, they who seemed to be their strongest supporters tremble and shake. This is a truth, and a profitable one for our meditation. To clear this,

I finde some interpreting this clause as the former, in a figurative sense, He shaketh the earth, that is, States, Kingdoms and Common-wealths; And the pillars thereof tremble; that is, they who seemed to be their strongest supporters tremble and shake. This is a truth, and a profitable one for our meditation. To clear this,

First, We find the earth in Scripture often put for States and Kingdoms (Isa. 24.20.) The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage, and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall and not rise again. The earth shall do this: what earth? He doth not mean the natural earth¹ upon which men tread, but the people who tread upon the earth, or that Common-wealth, wherein people are united and governed, these shall reel to and fro, and be removed like a cottage: As if he had said, you thought your State and Kingdom was settled like a strong Castle, but I will take it down, as a man takes down a little cottage, raddled only with a few sticks and reeds. Or the meaning of it is, your Common-wealth that hath been founded by the wisdom of so many Law-givers,² and is established in so much riches and power, shall be removed as a poor cottage, through which every puff of wind finds a passage. The strongest Kingdoms and Bulwarks of the earth, are but as thatched cottages, when God takes them in hand.

First, We finde the earth in Scripture often put for States and Kingdoms (