( , [JS] ... . ' Windsout of his Treafures, he rides upol} ~he wings of the Wind~ He ~naketh the Clouds his Ghar'i.ots, he,f1tteth on title Flouds ; theThun9er, and the Hail; .a.nd·. the Rain:, ano the Profl:s , are aiJat hi,s Com. 111~nd.~ He giveth Snow Jike Wool, ·and· f~attereth t'he hoar ·froll like anleS~ He calleth forth the Ice like me>rfels ; he fets bounds' to the Sea, whkh it - fuall not pafs ; tbe Birds of the Aire, the Beall:s . . 'the P~eld, the Fithes of·the Sea; yea. the tlones and ·dull· of the ~arth, are all at his beck. · . M~re efp~cially, he rules and geverns ~the men .tbu world.He 1its in all the (ounfels ofmen,though · they fee 'him not; he orders all thtir Decrees;there' , no Decree can pafs, unlefs God 'gives his V-ote. · rules in all die aElz~ons ofmen; even thofe things that are ~aed through our improvidence, come not to paffe.withoqt the Pr~vidcnce of God• .He_rutes in -~11 the cha;:;gcs t.h'tlt itre :in the foi'!J; he changes'the times,and the feafons--; he changes Kingdoms, and Governments; he remov.eth ·Kings, and fetteth up Kings; he makes War, and creates Pea-ce: he bend. L ~ r t:~h the Bow, and he breaketh the Bow, and cutteth the Speare in funder,and burneth the Chariots In the fire: Peace and War, ·Heilth and Sicknefs, Plenty ttnd Famine, Life and Death, arc all the difpofures {')f his hand. He orders aH the events and ~aPJ.fa/i. • . ' J tus. 'of the WoriO ; even \ frorn the greatdt to the fc11allefl. Without him, not a Sparrow lhall f(lll nor a ha1r of.thc head l'hall perifh ~ though there be to men, yet to the Lord there are no cal.Jfallties, or coniingencies. Bm all things come to paffc , _ac.. tording as his f::fa,nd and Counfel had before deter.. Jnined. · ' . ' I :0 The J ' .
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