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

Here's another question. The general scope of all these questions was handled before, I shall now only point at that which this ⟨p. 550⟩question specially aims at. Mr. Broughton reads, Dost thou know the poising of the thick vapours? This is a wonderful wo•k of God. The Clouds are huge ponderous bodies; who is able to guess how much a Cloud weighs?¹ yet God balanceth the Clouds, he, as it were, puts them into scales, and knows what they weigh; he so orders them, that one part doth not over-power the other, but both hang with an even poise in the air; this is a wonderful work of God. Dost thou know how God doth this? or, how he makes the Clouds bigger or lesser, how he placeth them higher or lower, according to the service and use to which he hath appointed them? Can any man do this? Can any man fully understand how such vast bodies as the Clouds should be poised or balanced? how they hover over our heads, and are kept from falling upon us? We must have recourse to the wisdom and power of God for this. Dost thou know the balancing of the Clouds?

Here's another question. The general scope of all these questions was handled before, I shall now only poynt at that which this ⟨p. 550⟩question specially aymes at. Mr. Broughton reads, Dost thou know the poysing of the thick vapours? This is a wonderful wo•k of God. The Clouds are huge ponderous bodies; who is able to guess how much a Cloud weighs?¹ yet God ballanceth the Clouds, he, as it were, puts them into scales, and knows what they weigh; he so orders them, that one part doth not over-power the other, but both hang with an even poise in the air; this is a wonderful work of God. Dost thou know how God doth this? or, how he makes the Clouds bigger or lesser, how he placeth them higher or lower, according to the service and use to which he hath appoynted them? Can any man do this? Can any man fully understand how such vast bodies as the Clouds should be poised or ballanced? how they hover over our heads, and are kept from falling upon us? We must have recourse to the wisdome and pwer of God for this. Dost thou know the ballancing of the Clouds?