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

He destroyeth with a word; If he do but speak, it's done: His saying, is doing: At what time I speak concerning a Nation, to pull down, and to destroy, Jer. 18.7, 8. ⟨p. 144⟩When the Prophet would speak the certain ruin of the Philistines, he doth it in this manner, Woe to the Inhabitants of the Sea-coasts, the Word of the Lord is against you, Zeph. 2.5. i. e. The case is woeful, your condition is desperate, the whole World cannot save you; for the Word of the Lord is against you. Men may talk, and boast, and threaten what they will do, when all the while their Words are but Wind, and their threatened Folk live long; but the Word of God, like Lightning or Mildew, blasteth where-ever it goes, and burns up to the very root. Julius Caesar told Metellus, (when he would have prevented his robbing the Roman Treasury,) Young Man be quiet, or I'll lay thee dead at my Feet: And then to magnify his own Power; addeth, It is harder for me to speak it, then to do it. But this is certain, it's as easy for God to do any thing, as to speak of it; yea, he doth what he will with a Word. Now how easy is it to speak? He destroyeth with a Look, with a glance of his Eye; and surely that is easy to him that is all Eye, that made the Eye: In the Morning-Watch the Lord ⟨p. 145⟩looked through the Pillar of Fire on the Host of the Egyptians, and troubled them, Exod. 14.24. He darts out beams of Death from his Eyes: One look from God will take away the life of the greatest of his Adversaries. He destroyeth with an hiss, O how little! how easy a thing is hissing! Isa. 7.18. I will hiss for the Flies of Egypt, and the Bees of Assyria, and they shall come, &c.

He destroyeth with a word; If he do but speak, it's done: His saying, is doing: At what time I speak concerning a Nation, to pull down, and to destroy, Jer. 18.7, 8. ⟨p. 144⟩