A Body of Practical Divinity

Xerxes the Persian Monarch threw Fetters into the Sea when its Waves swelled, as if he would have chained up the Waters: but when God speaks, the Wind and Sea obey him; if he say but the word, the Stars fight in their course against Sisera, if he stamp with his Foot, an Army of Angels shall presently be in a Battalia. What cannot Omnipotent Power do? The Lord is a Man of War, Exod. 15.3. He hath a mighty Arm, Psal. 89.13. God's Power is a glorious power, Col. 1.11. 1. It is an irresistible power, Rom. 9.19. Who hath resisted his will. To contest with him, is as if the Thorns should set themselves in Battle array against the fire; or as if an infirm Child should fight with an Arch-Angel. If the Sinner be once taken in God's Iron Net, there is no escaping, Isa. 43.13. There is none that can deliver out of my hand. 2. God's Power is an inexhaustible power, it is never spent or wasted. Men, while they exercise their strength weaken it: but God hath an everlasting spring of strength in him, Isa. 26.4. though he spends his Arrows upon his Enemies, Deut. 32.23. yet he doth not spend his strength, Isa. 40.28. He fainteth not, neither is weary.

Xerxes the Persian Monarch threw Fetters into the Sea when its Waves swelled, as if he would have chained up the Waters: but when God speaks, the Wind and Sea obey him; if he say but the word, the Stars fight in their course against Sisera, if he stamp with his Foot, an Army of Angels shall presently be in a Battalia. What cannot Omnipotent Power do? The Lord is a Man of War, Exod. 15.3. He hath a mighty Arm,