This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ... who was about to stock it with a new world of created beings. And the Lord lays claim to this knowledge, as a reason why his people should be humble before him. "They are as yesterday." "But where," he asks, "wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ... who was about to stock it with a new world of created beings. And the Lord lays claim to this knowledge, as a reason why his people should be humble before him. "They are as yesterday." "But where," he asks, "wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it?" (Job xxxviii. 4, etc.) The sea is God's, and all its phenomena; its teeming forms of life; its season of calm, when the waves thereof are still and the fleecy cloudlets on the peaceful sky are mirrored in its glassy waters; its time of storm, when it is tempesttossed, or when breaking the power of great navies in its fury; all these are the wonders of God. These are " the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still" (Psalm cvii. 24, 25, 29). "0 Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches; so is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships; there is that leviathan, which thou hast made to play therein. These wait all on thee" (Psalm civ. 24-27). Thus the exhortation, "Sing unto the Lord a new song, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein" (Isa. xlii. 10). The ground, the cause, of this song and the motive thereto is the discovery on man's part of God's absolute sovereignty over the deep. Most of the writers of Scripture were under the power of this thought. "Thy right hand, O Lor...
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