758 Chap. 26. An expofiticn open the Beokof J O B. Ver! 7. ret,}ed,doiiaois vat globe ofearth and waters,hangs as a ball in the ayrc,ard we frnnit tesrbm farce wonder at ir: Thy Poets fained an Arlan to beare up the fu " °rnerr' heavens'with his fhoulders ; God is the ei?tlas that bears up the vo!untatif [t ,p heavens and theearth too then upper robe and the under lobe , cant ne'. Ault: PP gl , g' Beam 69 too ; he made all things by hitnfelfe out of nothirg,ard he fup ports them by hisofeUc upon nothir g. We have an excellent tap:Tifton of the pow rofÇcd in this thing (Ifa. 40. t2.) Who bath natafared the Maters i ;a the bcllw of his band ! and meted tat he-vett With thefpan, and cotrprr headed the dull of the earth in a meafare a::d weighed the nmcttrtaines in fealty, and the bills in a bar`ancc. God made all things in weight and meafare; and he keepes the weight and meafure ofall things. As the earth was not till his word and will gave it a being,fo his word & will alone is all. [efficient to uphold it in that being. God bath not hanged the earth upon any thing but himfelfe, who is indeed infinitely more thenall things. Take two or three dedu&ions from this Grand Conclußon. Firft,The fame power which made the world frapprtsandmain- taints it. Thus the Author to the Hebrews lets forth the digni- ty of (hrß the Son ofGod (Cha. i. 2, 3.) Whom he bath ap- pointed heyre of all things, by whom alfo be made the worlds(both the naturall;civiil,and 1pirituall worlds, with all the changes and fuccelions which have been in them)aho is alfa the brightneffe of the glory of Gcd, and the exprefe image ofhis perfon, upholding aQ things,(the natural! frame ofthe world as wel as thecivil and fpi- ritual frameof it) by the word ofFin power, or by his powerful) word,which as it once commanded all things into a being;fo new it commands all things into that continuance of their being in which they are. Which power the Apoille attributes opine to Chrifl (C./. 1. 17.) He is beforeall things, and by bins all things ccnfsft. Sin made the world (hake; Andhadit net beenfor a fecsand creation, the fiefi creation hadbeen ruin'd and141. Theearth and all our conceruements who live upon the face ofthe earth, hang upon nothing but the will of God.lfhe let us gowe fall,thou'gh all the powers on earth wouldunderprop and uphold us; and if he hold us up we Rand fat} though we have no more ofany eart.h- ly powerto propus upwith,then the earth bath, which is propt up with and hangeth upon nothing. Secondly,
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