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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
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Treatise › Chapter 11: God incomparable in his Works, Creation and Providence.
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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.
He governeth the most stubborn Creatures, those which seem wholly ungovernable: The Winds, the high Winds, Whirle-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 irresistable 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,