Chap. 26. !In Expofition upon the Book of J OB. VerL7 757 upon, or be the foundationof the other.There are waters within ram iniitfianj.. the earth; whence it is taid,that at the time of the Flood(Gerc.7, nib dixeîh. I I .) as the windowes of heavenwere opened,fo thefBuntdines ofthe D, u great deepe were broken up : and we read of the waters as placed tender the ea,th,(Exod:2o.4) yet if we fay the earth is upon the waters, fence contradic`i*s it, and if weconfider the whole globe together, we cannot fay which is uppermoft, for in a fphtareor round figure, there is neither uppermoft nor lowermoft, but all the pare are c(pal and alike, being placed one by another, not one upon another. So that the text, in the Pfalnte, which faith theearth is founded upon the Peas,doth not at all dcdh againft nor contradi& thisof fob which faith, He bangetb the earth upon nn thing. Againe. There is another Scripture that feems tooppofe and fromwhich we may inftrre, that furely the earth bath fome. what to fuftaine it (Tfal.104. 5.) Who laid the foundotions of the earth, that it fhould not be removedfor ever. We put in the margin, He founded the earth uponher bai,r,if the earth be found- ed upon a bafis or pillar, then it doth not hang upon nothing L anfwer, the foundation or bafis, in the Pfalrire, dada not oppofe . theearths hanging upon nothing ; for the foundation or balls which upholdeth the earth, is not anycreated power without,or eitrinf cal to the earth; God did notbuild the earth as we doe houfes,firft laying the foundation and then furring up thewals & roofe, there is no filch thing imaginable in the worke of God. But the foundation or bafis ofthe earth, is the infinite and invi- fable power ofGod who made the earth. The wil & word ofthe Builder is the pillar which fuflaineth this building. The thin ayre is all the appearing foundation ofthe earth. For as the heavens hang over the ayre, fo the earth hangs in the midit of the gyre. What then is the bafis and foundation of the earth ? I anfwer ; which may be the poynt ofobfervation from thefewords. The earth is upheld by the infinite and allmighty power ofGod. The earthbath no pillar, but hangs like a ball in the ayre; we fhould looke upon it as a miracle did we fee a little ballbut of an loonfundamen- ounce weight hanging in the ayrewithout fupport; the ayrewill t o j" , nixa fcarceabear a feather,throw a feather up into the gyre and it wil jabb flf ftir terra, i abtt,pc,leve- defcend unlefe kept upby a breath of winde r and yet this huge lnif " 7.
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