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against the Egyptians and Canaanites. Heb. 3: 6. "He stood and measured the earth, he beheld and drove asunder the nation, and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow, his ways are everlasting." One look of his eye was sufficient to survey the whole earth; this measuring the earth was far superior, as I think, than that of the angels measuring the great city; the time that he measured the earth it was different to the time when the angel measured the city, for the prophet's reply, was like unto that of Adam "O God I have heard thy speech and was afraid." 1st. The measuring of the earth was a type of the great knowledge of God, in which the great sea of love was opened unto man, free without charge, for his prophet to prophecy the way in which the great ship should come and call for passengers, and at their own free will, they can come or stay. In his beholding he saw the opposition that would oppose his cause, and at one sound of his voice, he shook the nations that was upon the earth, and those that was to come after never could build another foundation, for he had laid down his word as the true foundation, and no other could be laid but what is already laid. The mountains being scattered; that was the great mountain of them that stood in opposition against God. With the breath of his mouth their governments were scattered and could not stand: the perpetual hills within Christ, his love, power and knowledge, always moving perpetually, so that no other power can evade it, that is to destroy the foundation. That is the reason I do assign his ways everlasting. And for the other power I. have not such a counsellor as to explain any farther; by reading the following passages you may satisfy yourselves. Exo. 29: 9; do. 30: b; Jer. 2.5: 9; Ezk. 35: 5. Now one look of his eye is enough to melt all the nations of the earth and reduce them to nothing, for all heaven and earth disappear when they come before his light. The mountains and hills I now mention, are signified the great ones of the world that persecute the church, whose power was quickly crushed by the Almighty: even the waters he holds in the hollow of his hand.
I shall now allude to the wonders wrought heretofore by the Lord in favor of his people.
