A DISCOURSE DELIVERED AT THE Weft Church in BOSTON, August 24. 1766. Six Weeks after the DEATH OF The Reverend Dr. MAYHEW. BY JOHN BROWNE, A. M. Paftor of the Second Church in Hingham. The Lord reigneth. King DAVID. None can stay his Hand, or fay unto Him, What doft Thou? Prophet DANIEL. BOSTON: Printed by R. and S. Draper, in Newbury-ftreet; (5) ROMANS XI. 33. And his ways pafi finding out. T HAT the Supreme Being rules in the armies of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and performeth all things according to the council of his own will, agreeable to the unerring rules of wisdom and rightcoufnefs, I presume we all believe: But vain man would be wife, too prone to aspire after an intelligence of those things which are beyond his reach. It is the obfervation of the wifest of men, that it is the glory of God to conceal a thing; the reafons of fome of his decrees, and of his judgments are fecreted from men. It is plain that fome administrations of divine providence are unfearchable, the reafons that influence an infinite mind are unknown, infomuch that many of the ways of God feem fo contradictory to the wifdom of man, that fome are almost ready to doubt whether they are the refult of divine difcretion. Among |