Chip. 3°7. ell:: Et'pofttionupontheBookof Jo s. Verf. 3. 453 e find then aBeing like Thunder and Lightning, without delibe- ration, when they are all in pall-ions and perturbations, yet let us know, thefe violent mo:ions (hall not fall any where by chance or haphazard ,nor by their own fivay, but as God appoynrs and over- rules them ; they fhall either fall quite bdìdes the marke which men aimed at, and fo do no hurt to any, er if they do, God orders what hurt they fhall do. Hedireaeth it under the whole heaven. Let us carry this c©nfideratien alwayes with us, and it will be a great flay toour minds in all the violent motions of the creature. Again, from the extent of this divine dire6}ion or providence of God, as to there things ; Hedireftetb it under the whole heaven, and unto the ends ofthe earth, that is,everywhere ; Note ; Theprovidence of god reaeheth to all places. His ordersgo forth intoall lands, his dominion is under the whole he-yens and unto the ends of the earth ( PJa'iot. 65.5.) He is the winfaence ofall the endsof the earth,andofthem that are afar cfrasp-n he_Sea. God is not helpful tohis people in one place of th e.rthond not in another,or helpful to them upan the earth,and no. ut on the Sea, but to the ends of the earch,and upon the broad lea he is their confidence, that is,they mayconfide and croft in him, ' whr r.ioí ver they are. Hence that expofiula: ion in the prophet (7eremiab 2 3. a 3.) EAm I ( faith the Lord) a.,God at hand, and not a God afar4r? Some would circumfcribe and limit the Power óf God, as if being a God nett at hand he could not be a God afar off too, or to thole who are fcatte red to the ends of the earth. Bar while he puts the queflion,amIaGodathand and not afar off ? he purs it out of queflion, that he isa Godafarofas well as athand,TheSyr ano laid & pleafed themfetves in their conceit a Kings 2o.2S.) The Lord is God ofthe hill,,hut he is net Gdof the values ; therefore they would change the batte!, as if he could order rhirgs here and not there; but all (halt End & feel him (Os they dìd)a Cod both of the hills &of the vallies,aGod both of the Land and of the Sea,a God both at hand, and afar off. It is laid of the Empire ofthe Sun (Pool. t 9 6.) hisgoing forth is from the end of the heaven,and hisc'rcta't unto the ends of it, and there is rethi ä h'd from the heat thereof : much more may i fay ofthe Empire of God, his going forth is from one endof the earth to the other, atad
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