God the Creator

C.H. Spurgeon said of the Puritan Thomas Watson that he ’was one of the most concise, racy, illustrative, and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan age the Augustan period of evangelical literature.  There is a happy union of sound doctrine, heart-searching experience and practical wisdom throughout all his works, and his Body of Divinity is, beyond all the rest, useful to the student and the minister.’

The following summarises some of the things Watson has to say about God the Creator:-

1. God made the world out of nothing. We can only work with the materials which are to hand. God created the world out of nothing, without aid, Gen 1:1; Psa 33:6,9; Heb 11:3; we cannot understand or explain this: it is a mystery to be confessed. Matter, then is not eternal: God alone is eternal, and therefore he is absolutely unrivalled in his independence, Rom 9:5; sovereignty, and right to be worshipped. Since all things were created by God, they will all ultimately fulfil his purposes.