Chap. 34. An Expofition upon the Book of 3 o E. Verf. 13. 577 Cod ? furely no man onearth,no Angel inheaven,nor all of them put together. How fhould God derive a governing power from them, who derive theirvery power of being from him ? He go vernes in his owne right, not by commiflion or deputation. We have the fame poynt affirmed at the 36th Chapter of this Booke, v.23 d, who hath enjoyned himhis may ? God knoweth and raketh his owne way, no man flheweth, much leffecommandeth him bis way ; Who loath riven him a Chargeover the earth '? Or whohath difpofed the whole 'World ? ThisQzeflion,as the former, conraines a Negation ; no Crea- ttire, none be-fides Godbath difpofed of the whole world, or of all of the world. 'Mr Broughton ;enders , tfho hath ferled all the dweltland ? The word which we tranflate 4ifpofed, liignifies toCV pofutt ar- place with a kind of art, exa6ly, orderly , carefully ; who bath te, cure, etow thus difpofed the whole world ? There is a double difpofition of d`e, qucd<g the world, Jho.i1 Fir(1, In Creation; who hath difpofed,' joynred, and put the whole world in frame? who bath marfhall'd the feverall parts of the world as theynow fluid like the HoffofGod ? The world as created is expreffed in the Greek by beauty and order ; before Gódperfe&ed the creation, alt was a confttíed heape without forme'andvoyd; But that rude indigefied marrer was drawne forth in the feverall works of that fix-dayes Creation, into a moll beautifull forme and order. kThus God once difpofed all the wo? ldby Creation. Secondly , God dayly difpofeth the world by providence ; And that's the difpofure which this text efpecially fpeakes of ; t?f1 orb» ha- Whobath difpofed (in a providentiall way) the whole world ? The bt abitia, brxs- word rendredworld, properly fi,nifies, the habitableworld ; We ` érg,°nes find it oppofed to the wildernefleor defrt (Ifa: T4. 17.) where genres ñ or- few or none inhabile. That word is very fignificanrly ufed here be habirobilì. -fortheworld, becaufe the habitable part of the world , or where Pik: men inhabite,are,the flages on Which the providences of God ap- pear, and a&mot+ eminently & convincingly; who hathdifpofed of thehabitable world ? which the Greekes call,Theboufe of abiding.; Mr Broughtan,The dwelt land,rhat is,the landwherein men dwell. Againe, As the eareh,before,is put for the inhabitants andoc- currences of the earth ; fo whatfoever paffeth , or is brought to E e e e paffe ip
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