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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 32 CHAPTER II. We have in the records of this chapter, I. The sabbath instituted, blessed, and sanctified; II. The work of creation reviewed and particularized ; III. Paradise described, and man placed in it; and, IV. Woman created, and marriage instituted. THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. Men begin many things which, either through inability or mutability, they cannot or do not finish; but it is not so with the almighty, unchangeable God; for as for God, his way is perfect. Ps. xviii. 30. If in our thoughts we walk the rounds of the creation, and tell the towers, and mark the bulwarks thereof, (Ps. xlviii. 12,13;) we shall see reason to say of God's works, as the Psalmist doth of his thoughts, howgreatis the sum of them. Ps. cxxxix. 17, 18. All the creatures with which the heaven and earth are replenished, are called a host or army,1. Because of the countless number of them. 2. Because of the excellent order of them, like an army, placed rank and file. 3. Because of the use which God is pleased to make of them for the defence and safeguard of his friends, and the ruin of his enemies. The angels are God's host, (Luke ii. 13 -- 15;) and there's a guard of them to protect Jacob, (Gen. xxxii. 1;) and to defend Elisha, (2 Kings vi. 17;) and one of them routs an army of Assyrians. (2 Kings xix. 35.) The stars are called the hosts of heaven, (Deut. iv. 19. Isa. xxxiv. 4,) and they in their courses fight against Sisera. Judg. v. 20. If Assyrians worship idols in Israel's land, God has a host of lions to plague them with, (2 Kings xvii. 25, 26;) nay, if occasion be, h...