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John Trapp on Job 37:16

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Job37:16

Verſe 16. Doſt thou know the balancings of the clouds?] i.e. How they are hanged up even in the aire, like Architas or Archimedes his Pigeon, equally poiſed with their own weight. But how they are upheld, and why they fall here, and now, we know not, and wonder. Some Naturaliſts tell us, that the clouds are upheld by the heat of the Sun: but thats more then they can tell, and there is much to be ſaid againſt it. Wherefore it is better for men to confeſſe their ignorance, then ſo peremptorily to pronounce of things they know not. Let it be proper to God to be perfect in knowledge. It was too much that ſome aſcribed to Tertullian, to Hierom, to Toſtatus and ſome others, that they knew all that was knowable.

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