An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Further, As this with-holding of the rain sometimes, so the holding up of the rain at any time, shows the great power of God; to hold the water in the air is the work of God as much as to with-hold it from the earth. The water is a heavy body, and all heavy things tend downward; is it not a wonder that such a mighty weight of water should hang in the air, and be there held up? if it were not held there, it would not stay there, but come down and drown all. What holds it up? the Cloud is a thin substance, yet it holds the water as well as the strongest vessel bound with hoops of iron; But by what power? doubtless by the power of God. The water hath no consistence in it self, it is a fluid slippery body, now what can hold the water that none of it leaks out, but the power of God? There are many millions of drops in one little cloud, and every drop is of it self ready to slip away, yet the whole cloud yields no more water then a rock till God orders it. Let us contemplate the Almightiness of God, who can hold such a mighty body of water in the air, or who (as Job spake, Chap. 26.8.) b••deth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

Further, As this with-holding of the rain sometimes, so the holding up of the rain at any time, shews the great power of God; to hold the water in the aire is the work of God as much as to with-hold it from the earth. The water is a heavy body, and all heavy things tend downward; is it not a wonder that such a mighty weight of water should hang in the aire, and be there held up? if it were not held there, it would not stay there, but come down and drown all. What holds it up? the Cloud is a thin substance, yet it holds the water as well as the strongest vessel bound with hoopes of iron; But by what power? doubtless by the power of God. The water hath no consistence in it self, it is a fluid slippery body, now what can hold the water that none of it leakes out, but the power of God? There are many millions of drops in one little cloud, and every drop is of it self ready to slip away, yet the whole cloud yeelds no more water then a rock till God orders it. Let us contemplate the Almightiness of God, who can hold such a mighty body of water in the aire, or who (as Job spake, Chap. 26.8.) b••deth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.