Job 26

In the Chaldee it is, Who among the angels? None can do as God, he brought the world out of nothing; and he hangs the earth upon nothing (Job 26:7). This is to make God to be a God to us, when we are persuaded in our hearts, and confess with our tongue, and subscribe with our ha…

Resp. 1. The glory of this kingdom is solid and substantial; the Hebrew word for glory, [in non-Latin alphabet], signifies a weight, to show how solid and weighty the glory of the celestial kingdom is: the glory of the worldly kingdom is airy and imaginary; like a blazing comet,…

The greatness of God cannot be known, but only by way of negation, that he has none of those infirmities, which may lessen his being in our thoughts, or by way of comparison, that he is above all — God is greater than man (Jeremiah 36:12). 4. So great that he is obliged to put a…

Beyond all doubt, they have been stupefied by a righteous judgment of God, that all might laugh at the gross ignorance of those who have not scrupled to adulterate "and, change the truth of God into a lie," (Romans 1:25.) The first inquiry here is: Was this star one of those whi…

And hereby the Work of Creation was compleated and finished. First for the Heavens; Job 26. 13. By his Spirit he has garnished the Heavens, his hand has formed the crooked Serpent.

It is an ornament of God's own making; is the soul thus decked? It is he that has decked it: by his Spirit he has garnished the heavens (Job 26:13), and by the same Spirit has he garnished the meek and quiet soul. It is an ornament of his accepting (it must needs be so, if it be…

The fashion of the world passes away, and the lustre of it; there is no enduring substance here: Those in the Hebrews were content to part with any thing that endured but for a season, so they might have an enduring substance: and so Abraham looked for a City that had foundation…

2. Nothing appears on which the globe of the earth and water should lean and rest. Job 26:7: He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangs the earth upon nothing. Now that this vast and ponderous body should lean upon the fluid air, as upon a firm foundation, is mat…

How little a portion is known of God? If Job asked the question, Who can understand the Thunder (Job 26:14), we may much more ask, Who can understand the Trinity? But in heaven we shall see God as he is, that is, perfectly (1 John 3:2).

Your knowledge is but as the light of a Torch, your ignorance as the Cimmerian darkness. Job 26.14, How little a portion is known of God? The Septuagint renders it, How little a drop!

This is our faith, which as it is in us — being weak and imperfect — apprehends the representation made to us of the glory of Christ as men do the sense of a dark saying, a riddle, a parable: that is, imperfectly and with difficulty. On this account we may say at present, "How s…

This power is visible in the creation. He hangs the earth upon nothing, Job 26:7. What cannot that God do that can create; nothing can stand before a creating power; He needs no pre-existent matter to work upon; He needs no instruments to work with, he can work without tools; He…