Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

Fourthly, Christ doth this so, as that he doth not overturn their nature: he worketh by natural and necessary causes necessarily, with voluntary causes voluntarily: he that enlighteneth the World by the Sun, causes man to discourse and reason; the Sun would not shine if Christ were not the light of it, nor man discourse if he did not continue the faculty, Joh. 1.4. In him was Life, and this Life was the light of man. It is man seeth, man heareth, man talketh, man acteth, but yet the seeing eye, and hearing ear, is of the Lord, Prov. 20.12. as God hath made both, so he sustaineth both in their operation and exercise: All that we do naturally and spiritually we have from Christ.

Fourthly, Christ doth this so, as that he doth not overturn their nature: he worketh by natural and necessary causes necessarily, with voluntary causes voluntarily: he that inlightneth the World by the Sun, causes man to discourse and reason; the Sun would not shine if Christ were not the light of it, nor man discourse if he did not continue the faculty, Ioh. 1.4. In him was Life, and this Life was the light of man. It is man seeth, man heareth, man talketh, man acteth, but yet the seeing eye, and hearing ear, is of the Lord, Prov. 20.12. as God hath made both, so he sustaineth both in their operation and exercise: All that we do naturally and spiritually we have from Christ.

Fifthly, He is not the bare instrument of God in sustaining the creature, but as a coequal Agent. As he made the World, and with the father created all things, so he doth support and order all things. It is as well the work of the Son as of the Father; for he is God equal with him in glory and power, John 5.17. My Father worketh hitherto and I work, and he hath a command of all the creatures, that they can do nothing without him, how much soever they attempt to do against him.