Men imagine that the Most High is moved by sentiment rather than actuated by principle. They suppose that His omnipotency is such an idle fiction that Satan is thwarting His designs on every side. They think that if He has formed any plan or purpose at all, then it must be like theirs, constantly subject to change. In this state men are not the subjects of Christ's kingdom and have no fitness for heaven. From this terrible state they are unable to deliver themselves.
Man is unable to originate, order or regulate the wind.
This Divine illumination is not by dreams, visions, or mere feelings, but the revelation of things to his mind and soul which have been all along in sacred Scriptures. Now the blessed Holy Spirit removes the blindfold from his eyes and opens his heart to receive the written Word. Then He begins to powerfully apply to the mind and conscience some portion of it. To be more particular, The sinner is now enlightened in the knowledge of his own terrible condition. BUT NOW , the solemn declarations of God's Word concerning his fallen state are brought home in piercing power to him.