INTRODUCTION. XC1 



mankind by the ministry of the Cherub- 

 clouds, his horses and chariots of salvation, 

 we need not wonder at the Psalmist's expres- 

 sion His strength is in the clouds. 1 Acting 

 by them, he causes it to rain upon one city 

 and not upon another* Are there any, says 

 Jeremiah, among the vanities of the Gentiles 

 that can cause rain ? or can the Heavens 

 give showers ? Art not thou He, O Lord 

 our God. 3 



The Deity superintends his whole creation, 

 not only supporting the system that he has 

 established, and seeing that the powers to 

 which he has given it in charge to govern 

 under him, execute his physical laws ; but 

 himself, where he sees fit, in particular in- 

 stances dispensing with these laws : restrain- 

 ing the clouds, in one instance, from shedding 

 their treasures ; and in another, permitting 

 them to descend in blessings. Acting every 

 where upon the atmosphere, and those secon- 

 dary powers that produce atmospheric phe- 

 nomena, as circumstances connected with his 

 moral government require. Thus it is that 

 his strength is in the clouds ; that his pre- 



1 Ps. Ixviii. 34. 2 Amos, iv. 7. 



3 Jerem. xiv. 22. 



