A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…

He governeth the lowest as well as the highest: As none are so high, as to be above his Precepts; so none are so low, as to be below his Providence: The highest must remember him, and he doth ⟨p. 117⟩not forget the lowest; Are not two Sparrows sold for a Farthing, yet not one of them falls to the ground without your Fathers providence, Math. 10.29. Sparrows seem to fly at liberty, and to fall casually; but even their flight is directed by God, and their fall ordered by him: They neither fly nor fall accidentally, but providentially.

He governeth the most stubborn Creatures, those which seem wholly ungovernable: The Winds, the high Winds, Whirl-Winds seem to cast off and scorn all Rule and Government; but these Winds are at his will: Stormy-Winds fulfil his Word, Psal. 148.8. When they rush forth with such irresistible force, that neither Men, nor Trees, nor Horses can stand before them; He rideth on their Wings, and hath them more at command then a skilful Rider hath an Horse, to turn this way, or that way, at his pleasure, Psal. 104.3. Psal. 18.10. They are all at his beck: He causeth them to blow, Psal. 147.18. And ceaseth them, Matth. 8.26. The wise man tells us, He hath them in his fist, Prov. 30.4. He can hold ⟨p. 118⟩them fast, or let them loose, as a man, what he hath in his fist.