The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…

Eighthly, If thou wouldst make Religion thy business on a Lords day, Meditate therein on the word and works of God. Consider his works; This is part of the work of the day. David in that Psalm for the Sabbath, gives thee a pattern, O Lord how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep, Psa. 92.5. Is a dishonour to a workman, to make excellent pieces, and to manifest abundance of Skill and Art, and ingenuity, and then not to have them taken notice of. God hath done his mighty works to be remembered, and wondered at. Its said of Pythagoras, that he lived sequestered from men in a cave for a whole year together, that he might meditate on the abstruse points of Philosophy. I wish thee to an easier and pleasanter task, to sequester thy self some time every Lords day, to ponder the infinite perfections which appear in the operations of his hand. God will be both admired and magnified by his people on earth as well as in Heaven, which none can do but those that seriously consider his works; Men have been much wondered at for some peculiar rare works, though in them a Christian should look farther, even to God the Author of their skill and wisdom. The very Greeks acknowledged somewhat like this, that all Arts come from ⟨p. 377⟩God, in making Minerva the Daughter of Jupiter, and to have had her generation in his Divine brain; but alas the choicest pieces of men to the smallest Works of God, are but as children's houses of dirt to the stateliest Courts of Christendom. Archites was much extolled for causing a Dove of Wood to hang in the Air, being equally poised with its own weight; but what is this to the work of God in hanging the earth upon nothing? Job 26.7. The earth is the heaviest and lowest Element. A little piece of earth held up and let fall, will never cease moving till it come to rest upon some solid body; and yet behold the great mass of earth with innumerable bodies upon it, hangs fast in the midst of the open Air, having no visible Pillar nor foundation to rest upon. Well might God reckon it to Job among his wondrous works, Job 38.4, 5, 6. Upon what be the Sockets of it fastened? Aristotle himself could not but admire it. Archimedes was famous for contriving the motions of the Sun, Moon and Stars in his Horology;