Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 19:1

1. THe heavens declare the glory of God : and the firmament sheweth his handy work .

These visible Heavens so vast and spacious, richly adorned with Stars, so various and admirable in their Course, or Station; so useful and powerful in their Influences.

Not properly, but Objectively, as the Earth and Trees and Stars are said to speak, Iob. 12. 8. and 38. 7. Isa. 55. 12. they demonstrate or make it evident and undeniable to all men, of Sence or Reason: They are as a most legible Book, wherein even he that runs may Read it.

(i. [illegible: 1+ letters].) His glorious being or Existence, his eternal Power and God-head, as it is particularly expressed, Rom. 1. 20. his infinite Wisdom and Goodness. All which are so visible in them, that it is Ridiculous to deny or doubt of them, as it is esteemed Ridiculous to think of far meaner works of Art, as an House or a Book, &c. That they were made without an Artist, or without an Hand.

Or, the Expansion, (i. [illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ ) All this vast space extended from the Earth to the highest Heavens, with all it's goodly Furniture, the same thing which he called Heavens.

The Excellency of the work discovers who was the Author of it, that it did not come by chance, nor spring of it self, but was made by the Lord God Almighty.

Marginal references: Gen. 1. 5.