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God's
Sovereignty
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“The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, Like the rivers of
water; He turns it wherever He wishes.” Proverbs
21:1 NKJV
Even
the hearts of men are in God's hand, and not only their goings, as he had said,
Proverbs 20:24.
God can
change men's minds, can, by a powerful insensible operation under their spirits,
turn them from that which they seemed most intent upon, and incline them to
that which they seemed most averse to, as the husbandman, by canals and
gutters, turns the water through his grounds as he pleases, which does not
alter the nature of the water, nor put any force upon it, any more than God's
providence does upon the native freedom of man's will, but directs the course
of it to serve his own purpose.
Even
kings' hearts are so, notwithstanding their powers and prerogatives, as much as
the hearts of common persons.
The
hearts of kings are unsearchable to us, much more unmanageable by us; as they
have their arcana imperii - state secrets, so that they have great
prerogatives of their crown; but the great God has them not only under his eye,
but in his hand.
Kings
are what he makes them.
Those
that are most absolute are under God's government; he puts things into their
hearts, Revelation 17:17; Ezra 7:27. - Matthew Henry
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