An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Sober men following this translation, who can stay the music of heaven? understand by it only the harmonious concord and agreement, which all the heavenly Orbs unfailably observe in their several courses, without the least jar or discord. That's a truth, showing the great wisdom and power of God, who hath put the heavens into such a sweet order, that they move, not only constantly, but harmoniously. Though the motion of the heavens makes no audible or proper music, yet it makes an intelligible or metaphorical music, that is, the heavens move orderly, there is an agreement in their motion, which is the the sweetest music in heaven among Saints and Angels, and among good men on earth. We say of men moving peaceably in their places, as becomes them, there is a harmony among them. And how blessed a thing would it be, to see all sorts of men moving orderly in their spheres? what a harmony would it make, to see every one doing his duty, and doing it in his place? whereas to omit duty, makes our lives useless; and to do it out of our place, makes us troublesome and unharmonious. And therefore, though I insist not upon this reading, yet it were well if all would insist upon the moral of it, labouring to make harmony (as much as may be) in all their motions. But I pass from it, and rest in our own,

Sober men following this translation, who can stay the musick of heaven? understand by it only the harmonious concord and agreement, which all the heavenly Orbes unfailably observe in their several courses, without the least jarr or discord. That's a truth, shewing the great wisdom and power of God, who hath put the heavens into such a sweet order, that they move, not only constantly, but harmoniously. Though the motion of the heavens makes no audible or proper musick, yet it makes an intelligible or metaphorical musick, that is, the heavens move orderly, there is an agreement in their motion, which is the the sweetest musick in heaven among Saints and Angels, and among good men on earth. We say of men moving peaceably in their places, as becomes them, there is a harmony among them. And how blessed a thing would it be, to see all sorts of men moving orderly in their spheres? what a harmony would it make, to see every one doing his duty, and doing it in his place? whereas to omit duty, makes our lives useless; and to do it out of our place, makes us troublesome and unharmonious. And therefore, though I insist not upon this reading, yet it were well if all would insist upon the moral of it, labouring to make harmony (as much as may be) in all their motions. But I pass from it, and rest in our own,