John Trapp on Amos 9:6

Verſe 6. It is he that buildeth his ſtories (or ſpheres) in the heaven,] Surgit hic oratio. The Prophet here riſeth in his diſcourſe: and as Chryſoſtom ſaid of St. Paul, Tricubitalis eſt, & coelos tranſcendit; Low, though he were, and little, yet he gat up into the third heaven: ſo may we of Amos, though but a plain-ſpoken and illiterate heardſman, yet in ſetting forth the power of God, hee mounts from earth to heaven, and ſhews himſelf to bee Virum bonum, dicendi peritum, an exquiſite Oratour, according to Quintilians character. God this Great Architect, and publike-workman, (as the Apoſtle after Plato, whom he ſeemeth to have read, calleth Him, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. Heb. 11.10) hath without tool or toil, Eſay 40.28. builded his ſtories in the heaven (which is three ſtories high, 2 Cor. 12.2.) wherein (as in a theatre, or molten looking-glaſſe, Job 37.18.) his Majeſty moſt clearly ſhineth, chap. 4.13. and 5.8. See Pſal. 104.3. every ſphere and ſtarre twinckling at us, and as it were, beekning to us, to remember his omnipotency (whereof that rare Fabrick is a notable work and witneſſe) and not to think to eſcape his judgements, if we go on in ſinne. For although he be higher then the heavens, Job. 8.11. yet his eyes behold, his eye-lids try the children of men, Pſal. 11.4. and verſe 6. Upon the wicked He ſhall rain down ſnares, fire and brimſtone, &c.

and hath founded his troop (or bundle) in the earth,] that is, the other three elements ſay ſome: the Sea, which together with the earth maketh one Globe, ſay others: the Ʋniverſe (ſaith Mr. Diodate) which is like the fabrick of a building: of which the earth being the lower part, and onely unmoveable, hath ſome reſemblance of a foundation.

He that calleth for the waters of the Sea, and poureth them out, &c.] See the Note on chap. 5.8.