nothing, from whence his Eternal and Omnipotent _Fiat_ did raise and call them forth, so that we dare affirm with profound _Bradwardine_, _Quod necesse est Deum servare quamlibet Creaturam immediatiùs quacunq; causa creata_. 3. When he pleaseth he doth suspend the effects and agency of natural causes, as in making the Sun stand still in the victory of _Joshua_, and of the three Children in the fiery Furnace. Sometimes he causeth them to act contrary to their innate powers and qualities, as in _making the shaddow go ten degrees back in Ahaz sun-dial_: and in causing _the waters of the red sea_, contrary to their natures, which are to tend downwards, _to be divided, and to go backward, and to be as a wall on the right hand, and on the left, until Moses, and the children of Israel were passed through._ And by many other wayes and means doth he alter and change the course of natural agents, to serve his will and good pleasure in his mercy, or in his justice, and yet here is no bare or passive permission. 4. Besides these he ordereth all the particular acts of natural agents, to be subservient unto his will: So when _Jonah_ fled to _Tarshish_, _the Lord sent forth a great wind into the sea, and raised a mighty tempest to overtake Jonah_; and when he was cast into the Sea, _the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow him up, and also the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited up Jonah upon the dry land_. Now the wind was not carried nor the storm raised, by a permissive power, but by the will and order of the Lord Jehovah, who sent them, and directed them either by his immediate power, or by the ministry of his Angels; and though they wrought according to their natural agency, yet the special ordering as to the particular act was not by permission, but by the will and appointment of his providence. Neither did the great fish come by chance or permission, but God in his merciful providence had prepared him for the preservation of _Jonah_, and caused him to be vomited on the dry land; so that all creatures do not only continue according to his ordinances, but also all elementary, and irrational creatures do praise the Lord by fulfilling his word, will and providence. And lest we be either censured to wrest the Scriptures, or to be single in this opinion, take the judgment of some few others. S. _Gregory_ (as he is quoted by learned _Bradwardine_) tells us thus much: _Quis de Deo ista vel desipiens suspicetur, qui nimirùm dum sit semper omnipotens, sic intendit omnibus, ut assit singulis; sic adest singulis, ut simul omnibus nunquam desit; sic itaq; exteriora circundat, ut interiora impleat; sic interiora implet, ut exteriora circundet; sic summa regit, ut ima non deserat; sic imis præsens est, ut à superioribus non recedat_. And _Thomas Aquinas_ their great Schoolman (as the same author cites him) saith: _Quòd Deus immediatè ordinat omnes effectus per seipsum, licet per causas medias exequatur, sed in ipsâ executione