568 Verf. 18. efin Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Chap. 37. faw none to help them. what cannot Goddo alone, whotretcheth out the Heavens alone ? Cannot he bring back the Cha eh ofthe Jews oat of Babylon alone, whofiretcheth out the Heavens alone ? cannot he raife up Cyrus for ho; Shepherd, and move him to make Proclamationfor their return, when there was none to move him a- bout it ? Hefruflrateth the tokens ofthe liars, and mækeh `Diviners mad.Thofe lying Divines faid,tkefeovs were fall enough for corn- ing our, but God frulirated their tokens, and made them 'mad at their difappoyntments. Now as this may exceedingly comfort and encourage the people of God all the world over in rheir greaten :traits, that God made the world , and fpread out the Sky alone, fo it doth exceedingly advance the power and gio-y of God. If a man have but a great Carpet or Coverlet to untold, he mull call in the help of two or three to fpread it and hold it up, one man cannot do it alone a But God fpread our the Heaven, that mighty Canopie of the Heavens alone. And his fpreading of it was the making of it ; The mighty God byone a& gave the Sky both its beingand its forme : And all this he did without either Counfellor or Coadjutor. No man ever did any very great thing in the world, but it was either by the help of other mens heads in contriving, or by the help of their hands in effedling. To be a foleAgent of Great things, is the fole-priviledge of the Great God. And Purely if the Lord God had no aflìftant in the great work of Creation, he needsno aflil1ancein his grearefl: works of Providence. He who made the world without help, can do what he pleafeth in the world without help. Oar help ( faith the Pfal- miff a 24. 8.) is in the name of the Lord , who made Heaven and Earth ; but the Maker of Heaven and of Earth, fetcheth all his help from his own Name. Elihu having magnified the rower of God in fpreadingout the Sky, cakes occafion to give us a defcription of the Sky, Hail thou withhim fpread out the Sky Which is,flrong, and as amolten Looking-Glafe ? We have here two things confderable in the Sky; pirfi, the íirength of it ; Secondly,the clearnefs of it. Bur is the Sky ftrong ? that may be thought an improper and incongruous Epithete a The Sky feemeth to be a weak thing,and the Air will fcarce bear a fea- ther ; yet faith he, Hail thouwith him fpread out the Sky which is
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