# “Daily instances of His omnipotence” by Stephen Charnock

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- Published: 2007-08-29T22:30:36-05:00
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“What a wonder it would be to see but on entire drop of water hang itself but one
inch above the ground, unless it be a bubble which is preserved by the air enclosed
within it! What a wonder would it be to see a gallon of water contained in a thin
cobweb as strongly as in a vessel of brass! Greater is the wonder of Divine power
in those thin bottles of heaven, as they are called (Job 38:37); and therefore called
His clouds here, as being daily instances of His omnipotence: that the air should
sustain those rolling vessels, as it should seem, weightier than itself; that the
force of this mass of waters should not break so thin a prison, and hasten to its
proper place, which is below the air: that they should be daily confined against
their natural inclination, and held by so slight a chain; that there should be such
a gradual and successive falling of them, as if the air were pierced with holes 
like a gardener’s watering-pot, and not fall in one entire body to drown or drench
some parts of the earth. These are hourly miracles of Divine power, as little regarded
as clearly visible.”

–Stephen Charnock, _The Existence and Attributes of God_, vol. 2, (Grand Rapids:
Baker, 2000), pp. 6-7.

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