756 Chap. 26. A1nExpojitionupon tbs' oob,.f JOB. Verf. 7. to keep that up. What will they fay to the earth, which is a groffe and heavy body, a body ofan unconceivable weight;who can count or tail up the weight of the earth, or how muchthe earth weigheth? Godnot only firetcheth out the thin heavens over the empty place,but,be banger; the eartb(that mighty mats ofthe earth) upon notbing,hebath not fo much as a peg in the afit;t;pi ei wall (fo the word fignifieth) ro hang it upon, l-le hangeth the earth. r°tV172ea When he faith, the earth, weare to underftand both earth and flarnrn 0'7,,P s- water, the whole terreftiall globe, This he hangeth upon nothing, . The Originalword is a compound,which in its parts may be ten- non dred, not any thing at all, that is, nothing.But howcan any thing gAtd ¡uof :an. Y b , n till quicgaam. be hung upon that which is nothing? it it hang, it muff be upon Dru fomewhar. Philofophers tell us that theearth hangeth upon its Phtlofophi ra- Center, and fo is poyfed by its own weight, and cannot move, rìonem red./tint, which Center or imaginary point is nothing. quoi á.7a tin. But theSc °i Po centro; rn genre faithteat earth bath a foundation; And Da.' quo re, natura vid(Pfal. 24. 2.) tells us expreffely what that foundation is ; !irka f unt, The earth ie the Lords, and thefulnefe thereof; the world,and they ideoque5asf tí- that dwell therein;for he bathfounded it upon thePeas, and eftabli- beatarlit qui- flied it upon eke nods. According to this Scripture the Sea is the pleat. foundation of the earth & the floods are the ballsofit.How then dech lob affirme, that Fiehangeth the earthupon nothing ? That indeed which Davidaffirmes, may feeme very ftrange, that the earth jbauld be founded upon the fea,and efitabli/hed upon the floods, is the fea a fit foundation for the earth?and can that which is (ta- blc and unmoveable, be eftablifhed upon rhat which is the Em- bleme of infra' ility, floods and waters ? facob faith of. Reuben (Gen. 49. 4 ) unftable as water; and can floods or watersbe the whole earths efcablilhment?the earth is rather the foundationof the water : and many Philofophers tell us that the fea is higher then the earth, and therein is the power ofGod feene that he holds in the tea as with barrs, or as with a bridle, left it over- whelme the earth; how is it then Paid, the earth 4 /needed upon Super Rif mina the lea? I anfwer, the word that we tranflate open, fignifieth,67, ea luxes vet neere, together, with, 10, be bathfounded it upon the tea, i &,by the fecal liming tea, or near the fea, that is, the tea and the land are next neigh- teh trim ter- hours, they dwel fo neer each other,that the one feems todwell upon,
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