5 50 yeti'. i6. 4n Evpafrionup'on the Jiool¿ of J'o B. -Chip. 37. gueflion fpecially aymes at. Mr. Broughton reads, Daft'thou 1,,now thepoyfong of the thick vapours ? l'his is a wotìdrful wok of God. The Clouds are huge ponderous bodies; who is able to Li rrationes guefs howmuch aCloucl weighs? yet God ballancerh the Clouds, nubisappellat he, as it were, puts them into fcales,and knows what they weigh; elegame? mea he fo orders them, that one part loth not over-1 over the other, gu domjudiclo, but both hangwith an even poife in the air;this is awonderful>work aareap- of God. Doi thou know hose- God' d9th this ? penft- velut li- 0', 1 041' he makes brantura Do- the Clouds bigger or letTer,how he placeth ti,en. higher or lower, mind.lM_ere. according to the fervice and ufe to whit he. null appoynred T7e10.71'6 z- them? Canany man do this ? Can any ran Fully underhand how monta, a Din fuck vaf.bodies as the Clouds Fl ould be poifed or ballanced ? ponderavit, ad how they hover over our heads, and a;e kept from falling upon trutinamdiren- us:? We muff: have recourfe to the wifdome and p^wer of God it mutata for,riais. Doff thouknow the ballancing of the (Lodi ? C in til. Hence we may infer, Fira; If inan knoweth not theballarrcing of the Clouds, then much lefs can he ballance them. And Secondly, Note ;, 'Tis by a divine power that the Clonic are upheld and bal- lanced. All heavy things tend downward ; what thee t God keeps theClouds up, which are fo heavy ? 'Tis a wonm hat we have not Seas of waters, rather thin (homers pore,ed up,:n us from the Clouds. They that rravaile far at Sea, fee the Rain coming down by fpouts,or like a fÌ, fad in fome placee; and certainly-the Clouds would come down every where like a flood if God did not hold them up. From which particular ithince Aloha would have us take up this general truth, that, roll things are kept inan evenballar,ee by the iv; fdome andpower of god. The things of the world, it K ;od did no-. balance them, how would'they rumble and fall aw y, e ', run to -nine ! were there not a ballancing orerationin the arm ai God, over all the affairs and bufineffefs of men, what a hudle and confufion would all be in ? We read in Scripture of foure things rohich God is faid to weigh or to ballance, they are all very ccn+.irle'able. Fir{}, It is raid, Godweighed) the waters (fob. 28.2 5.) which may be underlood,not only of the waters above in th..:. Clouds, but
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