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

What? Some refer the them, to all that had been spoken of before, to the Clouds, the Rain, the Thunder, the Lightning, the Light; Doest thou know when God did order the Clouds to Thunder and Rain, or the Sun to shine? As if he had said, God disposed of these without asking thy advise; did he acquaint thee with the orders he sent to the Clouds, or with the commands which he gave to the Lightning and the Thunder? Canst thou tell when God will work, or what he will work in the Clouds? He may be making preparation for fair weather or soul weather there, and thou never the wiser, but altogether uncertain of what he is about. Thus he humbleth Job, & labours to take him off from his murmurings and complainings, as also from over-bold queryings and questionings about the providential workings of God with, and towards him, by bringing him under a full conviction of his great inability to understand or comprehend the natural works of God, or when God set the Law and gave the Rule to or about these things; Doest thou know when God disposed them?

What? Some refer the them, to all that had been spoken of before, to the Clouds, the Rain, the Thunder, the Lightning, the Light; Doest thou know when God did order the Clouds to Thunder and Rain, or the Sun to shine? As if he had said, God disposed of these without asking thy advise; did he acquaint thee with the orders he sent to the Clouds, or with the commands which he gave to the Lightning and the Thunder? Canst thou tell when God will work, or what he will work in the Clouds? He may be making preparation for faire weather or soule weather there, and thou never the wiser, but altogether uncertain of what he is about. Thus he humbleth Job, & labours to take him off from his murmurings and complainings, as also from over-bold queryings and questionings about the providential wo•kings of God with, and towards him, by bringing him under a full conviction of his great inability to understand or comprehend the natural works of God, or when God set the Law and gave the Rule to or about these things; Doest thou know when God disposed them?

Hence Note; First, God did not only make the world, and all the furniture of it, but he disposeth the motions of every creature in it: