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

Secondly, Others say, these mighty Clouds are held up by ⟨p. 402⟩the wind; which keeping them in perpetual motion, they fall not, they descend no•, but according to a divine order, by which they are disposed of to several uses.

Thirdly, Others ascribe it to the hollowness or spunginess of their nature, which receiving and taking in the thin air, they are more easily kept up.

Thirdly, Others ascribe it to the hollowness or spunginess of their nature, which receiving and taking in the thin aire, they are more easily kept up.

But when we have searched to the utmost for reasons in nature, we must rise higher, and resolve the question according to Scripture and divine Philosophy, into the power and will of God. The holding up of the Clouds is Gods work as well as the raising of them up; He gave this law or command unto the Clouds in the day of their creation, that they should not fall down nor distil a drop, but by his own commandment and appointment. Thus we find it expressed by Moses in his description of the creation, (Gen. 1.6.) Let the firmament (that is,¹ the air, the inferior air next to the middle region) divide the waters from the waters. Here is a divine sanction; there are waters above, and waters below; And saith God, Let the firmament divide the waters from the waters; that is, those waters that are drawn up into Clouds in the air, a provision for Rain, &c. let them be kept above, and divided from the Sea and waters that dwell below. Thus there was a Law at first to keep quarter, as I may say, between those waters. And Solomon speaking of the eternal Son of God, of his co-eternity with the Father, brings him (under the name of Wisdom) speaking thus of himself; I was with him (when he did this and that, and among the rest,