...whiteness through the middle heavens, hast thou dwelt on the wonders of creation and told of Him who stretc.heth out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing; who by his Spirit garnisheth the heavens, whose hand hath formed the crooked serpent who bringeth forth...

...to keep a just poise, without a corresponding southern continent — and it does so ! " He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." — Job, xxvi. 7If the arduous but exact researches of this extraordinary man have not discovered a...

...of the supreme Being, the centre of the soul's felicitv and, ' God over all, blessed for evermore I" He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. He hath compassed...

...roundness of the world : " Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terrain super nihilum" (who stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing); wherein the pensileness of the earth, the pole of the north, and the finiteness or convexity of heaven...

...they know of what is ever before them, of even the visible works of his hands ? How " lie sprcadeth the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing ? " How he unites all the parts of tin's vast machine by a secret chain, which cannot be broken ? So...

...form.'' In the Book of Job, chap. xxvi. verse 7, there is what bears strongly to the above imports. " He stretcheth out the North over the empty place, and hangeth the Earth upon nothing." We read in Jeremiah, 4th chap, and 23d verse, "I beheld the Earth, and lo, it was without form, and...

...he overturned! them in his anger. He commandeth the sun and it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. So these are parts of his ways :...

...and /vmAow- the inhabitants thereof. 6 "Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. 8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He holdeth...

...he overturneth them in his anger. He commandeth the sun and it riseth not, and sealeth up the stars. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. So these are parts of his ways :...

...marvellous things without number. Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. He strctcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. Lo, these are part of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him ! But the thunder of his power...