An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

First, Then, what cannot God do? He that commands the light not to shine, and it shineth not; Is any thing too hard for him? who but God can stop the Sun from shining? If all the Princes and Potentates of this world should join their forces, their counsels together, and send a prohibition to the Sun, to stay its light, and forbear its shining one moment, they were not able to do it; yet if the Lord do but speak the word, the Sun shineth not; he can give it a prohibition, and supersede the going forth of its light to us: yea, he hath power enough, not only to cove• the Sun with Clouds, but to turn it into a Cloud, and to blot it out of the heavens.

First, Then, what cannot God do? He that commands the light not to shine, and it shineth not; Is any thing too hard for him? who but God can stop the Sun from shining? If all the Princes and Potentates of this world should joyn their forces, their counsels together, and send a prohibition to the Sun, to stay its light, and forbear its shining one moment, they were not able to do it; yet if the Lord do but speak the word, the Sun shineth not; he can give it a prohibition, and supersede the going forth of its light to us: yea, he hath power enough, not only to cove• the Sun with Clouds, but to turn it into a Cloud, and to blot it out of the heavens.

Secondly, learn hence, In what dependence we are upon God for every thing. God can keep the light from us every day if he pleaseth, and wrap us up in perpetual darkness, as he plagued the Land of Egypt with thick darkness for three days together. 'Tis true, the Sun riseth and goeth down in a natural course, yet still ⟨p. 421⟩by a divine order and commission. As God can forbid the Light by interposing Clouds, so he can forbid the Clouds to give us showers, and bind up all the sweet influences of heaven from distilling upon the earth to make it fruitful. He can speak to our garments that they warm us not, to our food that it nourish us not, to our physic that it cure and heal us not, to all our relations that they comfort us not, to all our possessions and riches that they content us not. O let us remember that we depend upon God for Rain, for Light, for Sun-shine, for all; it is at his word that they all put themselves forth to do us good, and at his word they are all staid and stopped in their motion, from doing or bringing us any good.