Chap. 26. An Expofttion upon the Book ofJ OB. Vert. i t . 783 wroth ; where the foundations of heaven in the latter fa t of the verfe, may be expounded by the earth in the fotmer pat of the verf . For if we confider the whole fah: ickc ofthe world toge, therthen the earth feems to be the foundLtion or pilar of heaven. And frequent experiences in all ages, efprciall i.i fame parts of the world, have felt and reported the tremblingache earth \Ve commonly call it anEarthquake; and Philofophers teach us that the reafon of it innature is the ftrength of vapors included in acid ftriving tom.ke their wayout ache bowelsofthe earth.And as this tremblingof the earth hath a reafon in nacure,foic is often caufed by fpeciall command fromGod, as a reprooe oldie fin, fulneffeof man, or to awaken him from his .n, yet, Fifthly, I rather conceive, that this phrafe The pillarsof hea- lien, is rfed only in a general fen`'e and not pyrticulariy in ended either ofAngels or mountains,of theayr,or of the earth;but that the pillars of heaven,ace the ftrength ofheaven: the ftrength of a building confìfts in the pillars that beare it uptake away the pi!. tars, and it falls down, as Sampfn fail to the lad that held him by the band,fuffer me that Imay feels the pillars whereupon the here:e ffandetb, and when he had once moved them, the honte feil (Jttdg. a.6.26.30 ) fo that when yob faith, the pillars cfheavers trem6le,the meaning is,the greateft ftrength of or what(never is M'a l7a i;e ftrongeft in heaven, the heavens th_rafelves with all their l°ecdreunrur ftrength, tremble at the reproofs of God. So that this is onelya non quod murn figurativeand Rhetorical expreflion, not that the heaven hash any material pillarsby which it is fupported,bnt because in thofe `! íbaf r:i;114 mighty concuffions which God caufeth in the world, it is as if l fad quad ue-. rrarntisri>rbis, thepillars or powersofheaven it felf were fhakenand did c=ncuïenevi deatur nobis Tremble and were afitoniflied at the re?r ;e f of C.d. per indè ecß may tee pillars wroece they e feid to slur But how } hf Q haf r h are C ) b lurmns. nterc,. tremble and be aftonifbed? I anfwer,'tis thus expreffed in allufi-;?,° onrrirus ontomen who being feverely reprovcd,menaced,and threatned, connceff.s. fuit. tremble, and are aftoni(hed. Here are two termesufedi fìrft,they Á ,Q'rno+ tremble, which word fignifieth (as it were) the pour;d,ng and ram enimi -rri; Chattering-of the heavens to peices,or asifthey were evenground f gularis o, topowder or crumbled to dull. Secondly, They are afloni%lsed ; dceari.ne a t The original word imports not a light,fudden,eran..ent aftonifh- earn comet en. trtent, but an-alkonigment that .fìayeth abideth,& taleth 'Tale a'r sari_ : P rn.tr,.rm Cot
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