With whom took He counsel in creation?
Whom did He consult when He determined the various and manifold arrangements,
adjustments, adaptations, relationships, equipments of His myriad creatures?
Did He not do everything after the counsel of His own will? Did He not
decide that birds should fly in the air, beasts roam the earth, and fishes live
in the sea? Did He not decide there should be one vast gradation among the
creatures of His hand, instead of making everything equal and uniform? Did He
not determine to make a revolving world on the one hand, and a floating atom on
the other? Did He not determine to create the exalted seraphim to stand before
His throne throughout endless ages, and also to make another creature which
dies the same hour it is born?" Was He not undisputed Sovereign in all His
creative acts? Yea, verily, for the Three Persons of the Godhead were all alone
in their solitary majesty. Why should God take counsel? Could man add to
His knowledge, or correct His errors? God sovereignly assigned His
myriad creatures their various habitations, members, movements, as it pleased
Him. God never consulted man about a single member of His body, or about its
size, color, or capacity; instead, "God set the members everyone of them in the
body, as it hath pleased Him" (1 Cor. 12:18). Man is as truly the
product of Sovereign creation as any other of God's creatures - sovereign, we
say, not arbitrary.