5 36 Verf. I 5. tirnExpfition upon the Book of J o B. Chap. 37. and determine; to difpofe is all thefe. Doefi thou knowwhenGod kip-0fed them ? What ? Some refer the them, to all that had been fpoken of before, to the Ciouds,the Rain, the Thunder, the Lightning, the Light ; Deer# thou know when God did order the Clouds to Thunder and Rain, or theSun to thine ? As if he had paid, God difpofed of theft without asking thy advife; did he acquaint Thee with the orders he fent to the Clouds, or with the commands which he gave to the Lightning and the Thunder ? Cana thou tell when God will work, or what he will work in the Clouds ? He may be making preparation for faire weather or foule weather there, and thounever the wirer, but altogether uncertainof what he is about.Thus he humbleth Ïa6, & labours to take him offfrom his rr,urmurin s and complainings, as all() from overbold query- ings and quef}ionìngs about the providential wo kings of God with, and towards him, by bringing himunder a full convialion of his great inability to underhand or comprehend the natural works of God, or when God..fet the Law and gave the Rule to or about thefe things ; Doc.* thou knowwhen God difpofed them ? Hence Note ; Firfi , God did not only make the world,and a(l thefurnitureofit, but he difpofetb the motions ofevery creature in it Ail things move as they are influenced by his power, and di- re&ed by his wifdorre. The date of Gods order for difpoGng the creature is from the beginning, yea from everlaaing. As the model of the Creation, what things fhould be,was with him from everlahing, fo was the model of Providence , how all things fhould be governed and difpofed of. The government of the world is as much of God as tine Creation or giving of it a being. From the Starts in Heaven, to the Worms creepingupon the Earth, all creatures were and are guided in their courfe by him; he hash let them bounds which they canny,r prff`, and fent out his word to them which they fails; not to obferve. Heathens,ge- nerally,did nor acknowledge God to be the Maker of the world, nor did they acknowledgehim the difpoler of it, but a{cribed all the vicif ltulles here below to blind Fortune, or to uncertain Chance
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