An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

First, Remember, Whatsoever the Lord doth, he may do; for he is an absolutely sovereign Lord, and therefore not to be contended with about any thing he doth, because no way accountable for any thing he doth, as hath been showed upon several occasions offered in opening this Book. He is Lord of our being, and hath given to all life, breath, and all things, as the Apostle told the superstitious Athenians (Acts 17.25.) and may not he do what he will to all beings, in whom all have their being; and who hath given all things to all which concern that being? He is our Maker, and hath not the potter power over the clay, to do what he will with it? Hath not the Creator power over the creature, to dispose of it as he pleaseth? (Isa. 45.9.) Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. If any will be striving, let them strive with their like; potsherds with potsherds, not potsherds with the potter, to whom they are so unlike. The Lord used no other argument but this to quiet all (Psal. 46.10.) Be still, and know that I am God; remember that, and you will either not begin, or quickly have done contending with God: Yet in that Psalm the Lord is represented making most dreadful work, Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made on the earth. Though God make that which was as a garden, to become a desolate wilderness, yet contend not with him; be still, and know that he is God.

First, Remember, Whatsoever the Lord doth, he may do; for he is an absolutely sovereign Lord, and therefore not to be contended with about any thing he doth, because no way accountable for any thing he doth, as hath been shewed upon several occasions offered in opening this Book. He is Lord of our being, and hath given to all life, breath, and all things, as the Apostle told the superstitious Athenians (Acts 17.25.) and may not he do what he will to all beings, in whom all have their being; and who hath given all things to all which concern that being? He is our Maker, and hath not the potter power over the clay, to do what he will with it? Hath not the Creator power over the creature, to dispose of it as he pleaseth? (Isa. 45.9