How doth God execute his decrees?

Doth God execute his own decrees?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure, (Isaiah 45:10)

Doth God execute his decrees in the works of creation?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: For thy pleasure they are and were created, (Revelation 4:11)

Was creation the first external work wherein God began to execute his decrees?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, (Genesis 1:1)

Doth God also execute his decrees in the works of providence?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: He doth according to his will in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, (Daniel 4:35)

Doth God make use of good angels for the execution of his decrees?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: They do his commandments, (Psalm 103:20)

And of evil angels?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all the prophets, and he said, go forth and do (1 Kings 22:22)

And of men?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: That saith of Cyrus, he is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, (Isaiah 44:28)

And of inferior creatures?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: I will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost parts of the rivers of Egypt, (Isaiah 7:18)

But does God sometimes work without instruments?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: Mine own arm brought salvation, (Isaiah 63:5)

Are God’s works inextricable?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: For no man can find out the work that God makes from the beginning to the end, (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

Can they be amended?

Answer: No.

Proof: Whatsoever God doth—nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it, (Ecclesiastes 3:14)

Ought they to be studied?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: They are sought of them that have pleasure therein, (Psalm 111:2)

And should we learn of God, first to determine, and then to do?

Answer: Yes.

Proof: Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee, (Job 22:28)