John Trapp on 2 Peter 3:5

Verſe 5. Willingly ignorant of] A carnall heart is not willing to know what it ſhould do, leſt it ſhould do what it would not, Act. 28.27.

That by the word of God] And that by the ſame word again they may as ſoon be diſſolved, yea reduced to their firſt originall, Nothing. A learned man propoundeth this queſtion, How did the Lord imploy himſelf before the world? And his anſwer is this,D. Preſton of Gods attrib. p. 34. A thouſand years to him are but as one day, and one day as a thouſand years. Again, Who knoweth (ſaith he) what the Lord hath done? Indeed he made but one world to out knowledge: but who knoweth what he did before, and what he will do after? Thus he.

And the earth ſtanding, &c.] God hath founded the earth upon the ſeas, and eſtabliſhed it upon the flouds, Pſal. 24.2. This, Ariſtotle reckons among the wonders in nature, and well he may. God hath ſet the ſolid earth upon the liquid waters for our conveniency, Pſal. Lib. de mirabil. 104.6 7.