Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered…

4. Elements, Stars, Rivers, Vapours, Rain, Drought &c. the Stars fought in their course against Sisera, the brook Kishon swept▪ them away Judg 5.

4. Elements, Starrs, Rivers, Vapours, Rain, Drought &c. the Starrs fought in their course against Si•era, the brook Kishon swept▪ them away Judg 5.

By all these means God may bring severe punishments upon the creature for his sin: but all these are from God, they are his Judgments, and come of his errand. This appears;

By all these meanes God may bring severe punishments upon the creture for his sin: but all these are from God, they are his Judgments, and come of his errand. This appears;

1. From the Supreme Efficiency of God; all creatures move as they are moved by him: in the matter of the action, if he give not his Efficiency, they can do nothing at all: in him we live, mo•e and have our being: his Efficiency is the first mover, he is as it were the first wheel of the great clock of the world, or the spring of this watch: Second beings have an operation, but it hath an absolute dependence upon his Co-operation, so that if so much as a dog wag his tongue against us, there is not only Divine permission in it, but Divin Efficiency also.

1. From the Supream Efficiency of God; all creatures move as they are moved by him: in the matter of the action, if he give not his Efficiency, they can do nothing at all: in him we live, moe and have our being: his Efficiency is the first mover, he is as it were the first wheel of the great clock of the world, or the spring of this watch: Second beings have an operation, but it hath an absolute dependence upon his Co-operation, so that if so much as a dog wag his tongue against us, there is not only Divine permission in it, but Divin Efficiency also.