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Pro_19:21 [There are] many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
Ver. 21. There are many devices in a man’s heart.] They may purpose, but God alone disposeth of all. {See Trapp on "Pro_16:1"} {See Trapp on "Pro_16:9"} Some think to rise by ill principles, but it will not be. Some to be rich, but God crosseth them, and holds them to prisoners’ pittances, to hard meat, as we say. Some, to live long, and to enjoy what they have gotten: but they hear, "Thou fool, this very night shall thy soul be taken from thee." {Luk_12:20} Some set themselves to root out true religion, to dethrone the Lord Christ. But God sees and smiles, looks and laughs. {Psa_2:4} The counsel of the Lord, that shall stand when all is done. Christ shall reign in the midst of his enemies: the stone cut out of the mountains without hands shall bring down the golden image with a vengeance, and make it "like the chaff of the summer floor." {Dan_2:35} Sciat Celsitudo vestra et nihil dubitet - saith Luther in a letter to the Elector of Saxony - longe aliter in coelo quam Noribergae de hoc negotio conclusum esse. {a} Let your highness be sure that the Church’s business is far otherwise ordered in heaven, than it is by the emperor and states at Norimberg. And Gaudeo quod Christus Dominus est; alioqui totus desperassem, - I am glad that Christ is King; for otherwise I had been utterly out of heart and hope - saith holy Myconius in a letter to Calvin, upon the view of the Church’s enemies.
{a} Scult., Annal