Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

'Tis with reference to his efficacious power, in graciously turning the Heart of Paul, that the Apostle breaks of his discourse off the story of his conversion, and breaks out into a magnifying, and glorifying of God's dominion. 1 Tim. 1.17. Now unto the King eternal, &c. be Honour and Glory for ever and ever. Our Hearts are more subject to the divine Sovereignty, than our members in their motions are subject to our own wills. As we can move our hand East or West to any quarter of the World, so can God bend our Wills to what mark he pleases. The second Cause in every motion depends upon the first, and that will, being a second Cause, may be furthered, or hindered in its inclinations or executions by God; he can bend or unbend it, and change it from one actual inclination to another. 'Tis as much under his Authority and Power to move, or hinder, as the vast engine of the Heavens is in its motion or standing still, which he can effect by a word. The work depends upon the workman; the Clock upon the Artificer for the motions of it.

'Tis with reference to his efficacious power, in graciously turning the Heart of Paul, that the Apostle breaks of his discourse off the story of his conversion, and breaks out into a magnifying, and glorifying of God's dominion. 1 Tim. 1.17. Now unto the King eternal, &c. be Honour and Glory for ever and ever. Our Hearts are more subject to the divine Soveraignty, than our members in their motions are subject to our own wills. As we can move our hand East or West to any quarter of the World, so can God bend our Wills to what mark he pleases. The second Cause in every motion depends upon the first, and that will, being a second Cause, may be furthered, or hindered in its inclinations or executions by God; he can bend or unbend it, and change it from one actual inclination to another. 'Tis as much under his Authority and Power to move, or hinder, as the vast engine of the Heavens is in its motion or standing still, which he can effect by a word. The work depends upon the workman; the Clock upon the Artificer for the motions of it.