[ 678] Not so much to eye the Creature, as the Creator, in all occurrents.
XErxes, the Persian Monarch,* 1.1 having received a losse by the rage of Helle∣spontus himself, more mad than the sea, caused fetters and manacles to be cast into the waters thereof, as if he would make it his prisoner, and bind it with links of iron at his pleasure.* 1.2 Darius did the like upon the river Gynde, who be∣cause it had drowned him a white horse, threatned the river to divide it into so many streams, and so to weaken the strength of it, that a woman great with child, should go over it drie-shod. And there were people in Affrica, that went out to fight with the North-wind, because it drave heaps of sand upon their fields and habitations.* 1.3 Such is the madnesse of our daies, if we be crossed with wet or drie, wind or rain, fair or foul weather, we fall a cu••sing and banning, repining and murmuring at the Creatures, like a dog, that biteth the stone, and never loo∣keth after the hand that threw it; we cast our eye, not upon the Agent, God, but upon the Instruments 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Creatures, which cannot do us the least harm, till they have a commission from him so to do.