I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the LORD, who does all these things.
God's power extends to all events, good and bad alike, not sin, which is never His work, but afflictions, wars, and calamities. When we strip Him of His authority and scatter it among false governors invented by men, as Rome does, we leave Him a bare name and rob Him of the glory that belongs to Him alone.
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The Lord proclaims with sovereign majesty that He alone is God, infinite and eternal; all others set up against Him are counterfeits and lies. He orders light and darkness, peace and punishment, all things, so let no man who rises to power forget he remains merely mortal, and there is no God but one.
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Commenting on Isaiah 45:5-10
Every kind of light, natural, moral, spiritual, the light of grace and eternal glory, flows from God's hand; so too darkness in all its forms, from ignorance to blindness to affliction to everlasting punishment. The peace He makes and the calamities He sends forth alike declare His absolute dominion.
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