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

Secondly, Which are also vast things, It is said (Isa. 40.12.) He weigheth the mountains in scales, & the hills in a balance. And as both these are true taken literally, so they are true also if you take them mystically or metaphorically. St John was showed the judgment of the great whore, in a vision, who sitteth upon many waters (Rev. 17.1.) Who are meant by waters is explained there (v. 15.) even Peoples, and Multitudes, Nations, and Tongues. The people of the world are compared to waters, and well they may, fo• their instability; Unstable they are as water (Gen. 49.4.) and for their aptness to swell and rise up into floods. Now the Lord weigheth these mystical Waters, Multitudes, and Nations: he knows exactly what they a•e, what they would be, and what they would do. And as by waters common people or nations, so by mountains and hills the great the mighty ones of the nations are expressed; Princes and honourable men are as great mountains. Thus spake the Prophet, The day of the Lord shall be against the mountains (Isa. 2.) that is, against the mighty men of this world; Hence that deriding question, Who art thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel? (Zac. 4.7.) That is, O thou great man, who art thou? surely, thou art not so much as a mole-hill before the God of Zerubbabel, who when he comes down, the mountains melt down at his presence (Isa. 64.1.) who, if he doth but touch the mountains, they smoke (Psal. 144.5.) as if struck with Thunder. God weighs these mountains of the earth, that is, he considers and understands them exactly. God weighed him who was the greatest mountain, of a man, in his time; Belshazzar was the sole Monarch of the earth, he had almost the whole known world at his command, yet the Lord said of him (Dan. 5.22.) Thou art numbered, thou art weighed, and thou art found too light.