you. I thought it good to fhew the figns and "wonders, that the high God have wrought toward me. How great are his figns! and how

mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an 66 everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from "generation to generation. And all the inhabi"tants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he "doeth according to his will in the army of hea"ven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: " and none can ftay his hand, or fay unto him, "What doeft thou? Now I Nebuchadnezzar "praise and extol and honour the king of heaven, "all whofe works are truth, and his ways judg"ment, and those that walk in pride he is able to "debafe."

The divine being himself makes the following folemn declaration, If. xlvi. 9. "Remember the "former things of old, for I am God, and there " is none elfe; I am God, and there is none like

me. Declaring the end from the beginning, "and from antient times the things that are not

yet done, faying, My counsel fhall ftand, and I "will do all my pleasure. I have spoken it, I "will alfo bring it to pafs; I have purposed it, I "will also do it." Daniel, in his thanksgiving to God, on account of the revelation that was made to him of Nebuchadnezzar's dream, fays, Dan. ii. 20. "Bleffed be the name of God for ever and "ever: for wisdom and might are his. And he "changeth

"changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth "kings, and fetteth up kings: he giveth wifdom "unto the wife, and knowledge to them that know "understanding." Cyrus made the fame acknowledgment, when, in his decree for rebuilding the temple of Jerufalem, he faid, Ezra i. 2. "Thus "faith Cyrus king of Perfia, The Lord God of

heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the "earth, and he hath charged me to build him an

houfe at Jerufalem, which is in Judah."

Power and wifdom are afcribed to this one God in the highest degree, and in the most emphatical manner in the books of fcripture. Indeed, this is neceffarily implied in what has been already recited concerning his being the maker and governor of all things. I fhall, however, quote a few paffages with this view only. In If. xxviii. 29. he is faid to be "wonderful in counfel, and excellent in "working," and in 1 Tim. i. 17. he is called "the only wife God," and alfo in Rom. xvi. 27. and Jude 25. But in If. xl. 12. &c. we have a moft magnificent defcription of the power, wisdom, and univerfal fupremacy of the one true God, as oppofed to the objects of worfhip in the heathen world. "Who hath measured the waters in the "hollow of his hand? and meted out heaven with "the fpan, and comprehended the duft of the "earth in a meafure, and weighed the mountains

in fcales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath

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directed the fpirit of the Lord, or being his coun"fellor, hath taught him? With whom took he "counfel, and who inftructed him, and taught "him knowledge, and fhewed him the way of un"derstanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop

of a bucket, and are counted as the fall duft "of the balance: behold, he taketh up the ifles as 66 a very little thing. All nations before him are "as nothing, and they are counted to him less. "than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will << ye liken God? or what likenefs will ye compare unto him? Have ye not known? have ye 66 not heard? hàth it not been told you from the "beginning? have ye not understood from the "foundations of the earth? It is he that fitteth 66 upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants "thereof are as grafshoppers; that stretcheth out "the heavens as a curtain, and fpreadeth them out "as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes "to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth "as vanity. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold "who hath created thefe things, that bringeth out "their hoft by number: he calleth them all by "names, by the greatness of his might, for that "he is ftrong in power, not one faileth. Why

fayeft thou, O Jacob, and fpeakest, O Ifrael, "My way is hid from the Lord, and my judg"ment is paffed over from my God? Haft thou "not known? had thou not heard, that the everVOL. II. " lasting

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lafting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends "of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary! se there is no fearching of his understanding. He 66 giveth power to the faint; and to them that have "no might, he increaseth strength."

The Gentile nations imagined that fome Gods had power over one country, and others over ano、 ther; and even that fome had power in the hills, and others in the valleys only. There are, however, two remarkable pieces of history in the Old Teftament, in which we find that, for the inftruction of the Ifraelites, the divine being particularly attended to, and by the moft fignal displays of his own power, refuted those abfurd opinions.

Senacherib, king of Affyria, imagining that the God of Ifrael was no other than the God of that particular country, and of no greater power than the Gods of other countries, infulted Hezekiah, king of Judah, which he was then about to invade, with a detail of the other kingdoms which he had lately conquered, faying, If. xxxvii. 10. &c. "Thus fhall ye speak tó Hezekiah, king of Judah, "faying, Let not thy God in whom thou truftest "deceive thee, faying, Jerufalem fhall not be "given into the hand of the king of Affyria. Be"hold, thou haft heard what the kings of Affyria "have done to all lands, by destroying them utter"ly, and fhalt thou be delivered? Have the Gods

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"have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Re❝ zeph, and the children of Eden which were in "Telafar? Where is the king of Hamath, and "the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of "Sepharvaim, Henah, and Ivah ?" Hezekiah, in his prayer to God upon this occafion, avows very different sentiments, acknowledging the fupremacy of the one true God, and putting his truft in him only; for laying open the letter which he received from Senacherib before the Lord, he prayed, faying, If. xxxvii. 16. "O Lord of hosts, "God of Ifrael, that dwelleft betwen the cheru"bim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all "the kingdoms of the earth, thou haft made hea

ven and earth. Incline thine ear, O Lord, and "hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and fee: and "hear all the words of Senacherib, who hath fent "to reproach the living God. Of a truth, Lord, "the kings of Affyria have laid waste all the na"tions and their countries, and have caft their "Gods into the fire: for they were no Gods, but "the work of mens hands, wood and ftone: "therefore they have destroyed them. Now there"fore, O Lord our God, fave us from his hand, "that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, "that thou art the Lord, even thou only." Upon this prayer, the prophet Isaiah was fent to encou rage Hezekiah, with a promise of the utter deftruc