Preston - BT100 P8 1634

f TIJae our Gon --- ---:--:-----:--:-::--:-:-:--:-~-----....- might hereobject; Ifhe be fogreat, how fhort Vcrre af. The greatnes ofhis workcs• .. Vc:rfc u, then doe we come ofworlhipping him,and ofgi– ving him that honour which wee owe·unto him ? faith he; it is true, for all the bettflJ oftebanon are notfuJJicient for ab~rnt Offering·~ nay, all the wood l)f Lebatten if not enough to kindle .the burnt offering• .And take all the gods of the GentileJ, they were but men, and their Temples, and all the glory of · them, they are nothing to theLBrd: See another defcription ofthis in 'Verft 2 5. And as thus in regard ofthe greatnefre of his Majefiy there~ HOn.e likehim;folikewi[e in regard oftbegrcatneffe ofbisworkes; ver• .. n. whohath mea.fu.red out thewaterJ in theholl1w of hi1 'hand, and metedout H eJtven with the [pisnnt; and comprehended the dtlfl of the earth in a meafurl, And weighed the mount~tin.es in fcales, Andthe hil!J in A ha/lance i That is, looke upon the great building of H'eaven and Earth, ..and confider what went to t~efe buil– dings, what might and powerbeemufihaveto : · handle fuch things as thefe; as the vatl:e Moun– taines, the huge Earth, theWind, and the Seas and .confiderwhat an hand& arme ~e muft have, that mufido fuch things. And alfo confidenbe , ·wifdome ofGod, that went to this worke, andhe did it alot:te;he had none to help him; take aman, let him fct up abuilding,and he canl}ot doe it o himfelfe, but he needs fomebody to helpc him; but theLorddid all this alone: therefore he con– cludes,verf. 18. that there is none like to him; as if it wer.e"hi.s.onfy.f~ope &: io~ention in> tbat:piace. It appeares ·hen~~)that tlieyare not gods.fro£? ' · the~r

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