..." Who hath shut up the sea with doors? / made the cloud the garment thereof; and thick darkness the swaddling band for it — and brake up for it my decreed...but no farther — and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." Is there not a beautiful coincidence between this passage and the following lines from Milton,...

...thereof: 7 W'hen the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted ibr joy ? 8 Or mho by 9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, 10 And brake...

...purposes these were intended to subserve in the economy of this sphere. It was Jehovah which exclaimed, " Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth...doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed ?" The answer is at hand ; it was he, himself, who...

...wind." — (Ps. civ. 3.) " Who hath bound the waters in a garment?" ie in the sea and in clouds. " Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth...thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it"— (Job. xxxviii. 8, 9.) " Who established all the ends of the earth ? " Their establishment was the effect...

...laid the cornerstone ! When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of GOD shouted for joy { Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb 1 When I brake it up• for my decreed place, and set bars and d.oors, and said, Hitherto shall thou...

...hath shut up the sea with doors when it brake forth, when I made the cloud the garment thereof . . . and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shall thou come, but no further ; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" (Job xxxviii. 4 — 6,...

...the cornerstone ? When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of GOD shouted for joy .' Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth as if it tad issued out of the womb ? When I brake it up for my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said,...

...farther! here thy proud waves stay!" * They know that voice, and instant they obey. * Job xxxviii. 8. " Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb ? When I brake up 1- J •VI Proud sea! not vainly hangs yon radiant bow 165 Her smile upon the tempest's angry...

...when I made the u cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a "swaddling band for it? When I break up for <( it my decreed place, and set bars, and doors, "and said. Hitherto shalt thou come, and no "farther ; and here shall thy proud waves be "stayed? He that reproveth God, let him an" swer...

...and this divine philosophy is emphatically intimated in the passage where it is demanded of Job, " Who shut up the sea with doors when it brake forth,...doors; and said, HITHERTO SHALT THOU COME, BUT NO FURTHER; AND HERE SHALL THY PROUD WAVES BE STAYED !" IMAGINARY DECAYS OF THE UNIVERSE. Sir Isaac Newton...