Queft. 3. What Ufe are we to make of this? Is GOD Almighty?

1. Then fubmit to his Will and Pleasure, Ifa. xlv. 9. Pfal. xxxix. 9.

2. Fear him, Jer. v. 22. Matt. x. 28. Remember the Old World, the Egyptians, Corab, Dathan and Abiram, Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's Wife, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Herod; and fear none but him.

3. Then truft on him, and in thefe Promises he hath made unto us, Rom. iv. 20, 21. 2 Tim. i. 12.

Remember Noah, Jofeph, the Ifraelites at the Red Sea, and in the Wilderness, the Three Children, Daniel in the Den, Jonah, Peter. 4. This fhould excite and encourage us to pray continually unto God, as one who is able to fupply all our Wants, and to do whatsoever we defire, yea, and infinitely more too, Eph. iii. 20.

5. Is God Almighty? Then walk before him, and be perfect, or fincere, Den, Jac. iv. 12.

Creation is a great Article of Faith, Heb. xi. 3.

I. Here is the Agent or Efficient Caufe, God, D, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft.

Father, 1 Cor. viii. 6.

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Son, 1 Cor. viii. 6. Job. xiii. 10. Col. i. 16.
Heb. i. 2, 10.

Holy Ghoft, Pfal. xxxiii. 6. r 1721.
Fob xxvi. 13. Gen. i. 2.

II. The Object: Heaven and Earth. That is, All the World, or all Things that had any Beginning; as Col. i, 16,

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So the Phrase, Heaven and Earth, is always ufed in Scripture, there being no one Word in the Hebrew that fignifies the World.

is rendred World. Ifa.38. 1170 2011 by, but there the Targue hath it, yn, the Inhabitants of the Earth, as the Place alfo requires it fhould be tranflated.

Son is never any more then xv, the habitable World.

So it is rendred by the LXX. in Pfal. ix. 8. where also the Targue hath TN, the Arabick the fame and amongst the Greeks too till Pythagoras.

Πυθαγόρας πρῶτος ὠνόμασε τον κ όλων περιοχών κόσμον, ἐκ δ' ἐν αὐτῷ τάξεως. Plutarch. Hence Mundus.

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III. The Act: He Created. That is, Made all Things of Nothing. Though the Word N77 doth nor evince this, yet it being ordinarily in Scripture joined with oy and ; yet, 1. This is plain from the Manner of the Creation, because it was by his Word fpeaking, Gen. i. 3, &c. So Rom. iv. 17. Heb. ii. 3. 2. For the Word n, in the Beginning: For if in the Beginning then before any Thing was begun, or had any Being out of which the World could be produced. To fay God made all Things of fomething, is a Contradiction.

IV. The Time when. In the Beginning of all Time, before which there was nothing but Eternity.

V. The End. For the Glory of God the Creator, Prov, xvi. 4,

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He in the Creation fhewed forth the Glory of his Wisdom, Power and Goodness, Jer. x. 12. 1. The Glory of his Power, Rom. i 20.

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1. In making all Things of Nothing.

2. In making Day before the Sun, which was made the Fourth Day, Gen. i. 14. Herbs, Plants and Trees, before the Sun, Moon and Stars, even the Third Day,

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2. The Glory of his Wisdom.

In that he firft made fimple Elements, then mixed or compound Bodies.

As alfo, firft, Such Things as had Being, but without Life; as inanimate Things,as Light, the Firmament, and dry Ground.

Then fuch as had Being and Life, without
Sense; as Herbs, Plants, Trees, the Third
Day.

Then fuch as had Being, Life and Sense, but
without Reason; as Brutes, the Fifth Day.
Then laft of all, fuch as had Being, Life,
Senfe and Reason; as Man.

So that we may fay, as Pfal. civ. 24. Fer. li.

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3. The Glory of his Goodnefs.

In that he made Habitations before Inhabitants.

Food before them that were to eat it.

And all Things that Man was to make use of,
before Man that was to make ufe of them.
He made all Things good, Gen. i. ult.
His Goodness he communicated; especially,
1. To Angels: Which were created by God,
Col. i. 16, 17. Pfal. civ. 4. Heb. i. 7. 14.
And that the First Day, Job xxxviii. 6, 7.
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They are called &,, Meffengers, Heb. i. 14.

They are very many, Dan. vii. 10.

But many of them finned, 2 Pet. ii. 4. Jud. vi. 2. Man. Created after the Image of God, Gen. i. 26. whofe Production was laft, because all other Things were made for him, and he was to be negoμ☺, confifting of a Spirit and Body.

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1, This fhould humble us under the Hand of Almighty God, Pfal. viii. 3, 4.

2. This fhould teach us Obedience. He being our Creator, for all other Creatures ferve him, Ifa. lxviii. 13. Ifa. xl. 26. He commanded the Stars to fight, the Sun to ftand ftill, the Ravens to feed Elias, the Fish to keep Jonas, and they did it: yea Pfal. cxlviii. 7, 8. Ifa. i. 2, 3.

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This fhould fupport us in all Preffures, tha he which made the World is our God, Pfal. cxlvi. 5, 6, Pfal. cxxi. 2, 3.

4. This fhould make us to fear and dread him, Ifa. viii. 13. Matt. x. 28.

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Then bless and magnifie his Name, and fo fulfill his End in making the World, Neh. 9. 5, 6. Pfal. cxlviii. 2, 5. Revel, iv. 11.

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