| John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judgeth those who are high ? — Jobxxi. 22. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing; he bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, &c. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the... | |
| Josiah Priest - 1825 - 660 pages
...Being, the centre of the soul's felicitv and, ' God over all, blessed for evermore I" He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. He hath compassed... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...the world : " Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terrain super nihilum" (who stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing); wherein the pensileness of the earth, the pole of the north, and the finiteness or convexity of heaven... | |
| John Wesley - 1825 - 742 pages
...they know of what is ever before them, of even the visible works of his hands ? How " lie sprcadeth the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing ? " How he unites all the parts of tin's vast machine by a secret chain, which cannot be broken ? So... | |
| Andrew Kippis - 1826 - 464 pages
...earth to keep a just poise, without a corresponding southern continent, and it does so. He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. Job, xxvi. 7. " If the arduous but exact researches of this extraordinary man have not discovered a new world, they... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 902 pages
...inhabitants thereof. 6 "Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. 8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He holdeth... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 pages
...marvellous things without number. Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. He strctcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. Lo, these are part of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him ! But the thunder of his power... | |
| Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 528 pages
...them in his anger. He commandeth the sun and it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. So these are parts of his ways :... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1827 - 666 pages
...as heaven, what canst thou do ? deeper than hell, what canst thou know?' Job xi. 7. ' He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in hit thick clouds, the pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at... | |
| William Lisle Bowles - 1828 - 170 pages
...of the earth being placed upon a tortoise, how consonant to truth are these words, " he stretcheth out the NORTH over the EMPTY PLACE, and HANGETH THE EARTH UPON NOTHING." Look to the northern pole ; all is silent desolation beneath the frozen sky, and there may you have... | |
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