John Trapp on Nehemiah 9:6

Verſe 6. Thou, even thou art Lord alone] Jehovah is Gods incommunicable name: that holy and reverend Name of his which Jewes pronounce not, we too oft profane, at leaſt by not conſidering the import of it; which is enough to anſwer all our doubts, and to fill us with ſtrong conſolation, had we but skill to ſpell all the letters in it.

Thou haſt made heaven] With great skill and artifice thou haſt made it, three ſtories high, 2 Cor. 12.2. Heb. 11.10.

The heaven of heavens] Called the higheſt, Luke 2.14. and the third heaven, 2 Cor. 12.2. Of this heaven no natural knowledge can be had, nor any help by humane arts, Geometry, Opticks, &c. for it is neither aſpectable, nor movable.

With all their hoſt] i. e. Their furniture; Angels, thoſe heavenly Courtiers, Sunne, Moone and Starres, &c. which are all Gods ſervants, Pſal. 119.91. and do, in their way, worſhip Him.

The earth and all things that are therein] God may be read in the great book of Nature, which hath three leaves, Heaven, Earth, and Sea. Heaven is all that's above earth: Earth is an element of cold and dry nature, thick, ſolid, heavie, placed in the middeſt of the world as the foundation thereof, and therefore unmovable, though round (and in that reſpect naturally apt for motion) and though founded, not upon ſolid rocks, but fluid waters. This, Ariſtotle himſelf wondred at, Lib. 2. de Coelo, cap. 13.

And all things that are thereon] Either therein, as metals and minerals; or thereon, as men, beaſts, creeping things, &c.

The Seas and all that are therein] As, There is that Leviathan, and creeping things innumerable: Gods handy-work all of them.

And thou preſerveſt them all] Giveſt them [non-Latin text not transcribed], Acts 17.25. life and breath, motion and maintenance; thou upholdeſt the whole creation by the word of thy power, Heb. 1.3. and all things ſubſiſt by thy manutenſion. God doth not caſt off the care of his works that he hath made (as doth the Carpenter, or Shipwright) but being perpetually preſent with them, ruleth, diſpoſeth and ordereth all by a certaine counſel, to his own ends, and at length to his own glory.

And the hoſt of heaven worſhippeth thee] Angels, and Saints eſpecially: who the more they know of God, the more they love him and honour him; making their addreſſes to him with greateſt ſelf-abaſement, conſidering their diſtance, and diſproportion. Thus Angels: As for Saints; All thy works praiſe thee, O God, ſaith David, that is, they give matter and occaſion; but thy Saints bleſſe thee, Pſal. 145.10. How they do this, ſee Rev. 5.11, 12.