PROP. II. The Snow is a work of God. It is He who gives Snow like Wool. The Great God owns and challengeth the Snow to be His Creature. Job 38.22, 23. The treasures of the Snow which I have reserved. We see God challenges the ⟨p. 74⟩Snow as His property. He and He only has power to dispose of it. As other the like Meteors (as they use to be called) are His work. It is said in the Context before us, that He Scattereth the hoar frost like Ashes. And the Ice is ascribed to God as His Creature. He casteth forth His Ice like Morsels. Job 38.29. Out of whose womb came the Ice, and the Hoary Frost of Heaven, who has gendered it? It is the mighty God that makes the soft water hard thereby. So Job. 37.10. By the Breath of God Frost is given, and the breadth of the Waters is strained. The Frost drinks up the Waters, and straitens them. The old description of Ice, that it is Copia Aquae in Augusto, a great deal of water in a little room; late Philosophers approve not of. But we are certain that the Breath of God, that is the cold freezing Wind, is the cause of it; which Wind proceeding from the Providence of God, is therefore called His Breath. So again, the Rain is another Meteor that God is said to give. Job 38.28. Has the Rain a Father? Who has begotten the drops of the Dew? The meaning is, that it is Gods Creature. The Rain has no Father but that God who is the Creator and Father ⟨p. 75⟩of all things. Jer. 14. ult. Can any of the Vanities of the Gentiles, that is their Idols, cause Rain? Can the Heavens give Showers? They cannot of themselves give Showers. It is true that there are Natural causes of the one and the other. For Snow & Rain are no miraculous things, but that which according to the constituted order of Nature useth to happen. Nevertheless, the concurrence of Second Causes does not hinder, but imply the Efficiency of the First Cause. God is oftentimes in the Scripture, said to do that which He does not do by His own immediate Hand, but which He makes use of Instruments or Secondary Causes in the Effecting of. The Snow is said to be the Gift and Dispensation of God.
PROP. II. The Snow is a work of God. It is He who gives Snow like Wool. The Great God owns and challengeth the Snow to be His Creature. Job 38.22, 23. The treasures of the Snow which I have reserved. We see God challenges the ⟨p. 74⟩Snow as His property. He and He only has power to dispose of it. As other the like Meteors (as they use to be called) are His work. It is said in the Context before us, that He Scattereth the hoar frost like Ashes. And the Ice is ascribed to God as His Creature. He casteth forth His Ice like Morsels. Job 38.29. Out of whose womb came the Ice, and the Hoary Frost of Heaven, who has gendred it? It is the mighty God that makes the soft water hard thereby. So Job. 37.10. By the Breath of God Frost is given, and the breadth of the Waters is strained. The Frost drinks up the Waters, and straitens them. The old description of Ice, that it is Copia Aquae in Augusto, a great deal of water in a little room; late Philosophers approve not of. But we are certain that the Breath of God, that is the cold freezing Wind, is the cause of it; which Wind proceeding from the Providence of God, is therefore called His Breath. So again, the Rain is another Meteor that God is said to give. Job 38.28. Has the Rain a Father? Who has begotten the drops of the Dew? The meaning is, that it is Gods Creature. The Rain has no Father but that God who is the Creator and Father ⟨p. 75⟩of all things. Jer. 14. ult. Can any of the Vanities of the Gentiles, that is their Idols, cause Rain? Can the Heavens give Showers? They cannot of themselves give Showers. It is true that there are Natural causes of the one and the other. For Snow & Rain are no miraculous things, but that which according to the constitued order of Nature useth to happen. Nevertheless, the concurrence of Second Causes does not hinder, but imply the Efficiency of the First Cause. God is oftentimes in the Scripture, said to do that which He does not do by His own immediate Hand, but which He makes use of Instruments or Secondary Causes in the Effecting of. The Snow is said to be the Gift and Dispensation of God.
