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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 4-6
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Such suppositions show indeed the immovableness of the Word which God hath spoken, not the movableness (by any natural power or natural decay) of the Earth, whose foundations he hath laid. And hence the Psalmist argues the Lords faithfulness to his Word (Psal. 119.90.1) All earthly things move, but the Earth wherein all these motions are made, stands still (Eccl. 1.4.) The Earth can no more move, than the Heavens can stand still. Some modern Philosophers have turned the scale of Nature, and would persuade us that the Heavens stand still, and the Earth moves: but 'tis good for us to stand to and abide by the Scripture, which tells us, the Earth stands still and abideth; or it abideth, that is, it standeth, as the Margin explains it (Psal. 119.90.) And that it standeth still or abideth, not only because it hath still a being (as things in motion have) but because it is still, or stands without moving, is so much my faith, as well as my sense, that I see no reason to be moved from it.
Such suppositions shew indeed the immoveableness of the Word which God hath spoken, not the moveableness (by any natural power or natural decay) of the Earth, whose foundations he hath laid. And hence the Psalmist argues the Lords faithfulness to his Word (Psal. 119.90.1) All earthly things move, but the Earth wherein all these motions are made, stands still (Eccl. 1.4.) The Earth can no more move, than the Heavens can stand still. Some modern Philosophers have turned the scale of Nature, and would perswade us that the Heavens stand still, and the Earth moves: but 'tis good for us to stand to and abide by the Scripture, which tells us, the Earth stands still and abideth; or it abideth, that is, it standeth, as the Margin explains it (Psal. 119.90.) And that it standeth still or abideth, not only because it hath still a being (as things in motion have) but because it is still, or stands without moving, is so much my faith, as well as my sense, that I see no reason to be moved from it.