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

Secondly, Observe; The course of Nature in all its turns and changes, is moved by, and obedient to the command of God.

As God commands the morning, so the morning fails not to come at his command. When did you ever know the morning stop or stay a moment beyond the time, that God commanded it to come forth. We could never say to the Chariot of the Sun, as the Mother of Sisera said of his, Why is his Chariot so long a coming? why stay the wheels of his Chariot? There was somewhat stopped Sisera's Chariot, that it could not come; and God took off the Chariot wheels of the Egyptians, in the Red Sea, and they drew heavily; yea, the Lord can take off the Chariot-wheels of any, though they drive as furiously as Jehu, so that they shall not come at their time: but who ever knew the morning stopped a minute or a moment beyond the exact time at which it should come, or was expected? And as the Sun, so all natural things, ⟨p. 118⟩keep their course, and slack not at the command of God. No creature disobeys the command of God but man, who of all creatures hath most reason, and is most obliged to obey it. God never said of the Sun, O that it had hearkened to my voice; but the sons of men put him often to say so, as he once did to Israel, his ancient people (Psal. 81.13.) How seldom do we keep time with God! How seldom do we come or go, just at his call! I have called (saith Wisdom, Prov. 1.24, 25.) and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and none regarded. God never looked, one day of the year, for the morning, and it came not; but he hath come three years (as the Parable of the Fig-tree shows, Luke 13.) to man, looking for fruit, and hath found none. Will it not shame us, that the morning is obedient to the command of God, if we are not?

As God commands the morning, so the morning fails not to come at his command. When did you ever know the morning stop or stay a moment beyond the time, that God commanded it to come forth. We could never say to the Chariot of the Sun, as the Mother of Sisera said of his, Why is his Chariot so long a coming? why stay the wheels of his Chario? There was somewhat stopt Sisera's Chariot, that it could not come; and God took off the Chariot wheels of the Egyptians, in the Red Sea, and they drew heavily; yea, the Lord can take off the Chariot-wheels of any, though they drive as furiously as Jehu, so that they shall not come at their time: but who ever knew the morning stopt a minute or a moment beyond the exact time at which it should come, or was expected? And as the Sun, so all natural things,