That sovereign power belongs to God is so natural a truth, and obvious to reason, that craving proofs seems needless, for He being Creator of all things is answerable to none and must have sovereign power.

1. The first attestation to Gods sovereignty is from his own being, his attributes. He being omnipotent denotes absolute power resides in him. He being the Maker of all, all of creation is His idea and so is at liberty to do with all what seems good to him and answerable to no one.

2. The creation itself; that is, God’s giving the world an actual existence in time, forming the earth out of nothing, and hanging same on nothing, assigning to every sort of creatures its form and station, order, use, and efficacy, and subjecting them to laws and instincts of nature, according to his own will and pleasure.

3. universal providence, by which the creation is not only sustained, but all lessers causes guided to their designed end proves God’s sovereignty. And even so that the creatures sometimes deviated from their first appointment, illustrates it, proving that the creatures are in the
hands of their maker, as clay in the hands of the potter. To serve some special and superior end, which their Lord had to be done, viz:

Of lifeless creatures: As the windows of heaven opening, and the fountains of the great deep breaking up to drown the world of ungodly men, Genesis 7:11. The Red Sea’s dividing, and standing up as a wall, to make way for God people, Exodus 14:22. The sun and moon’s
standing still till the people of God were avenged of their enemies, Josh. 10:13. The sun’s going back in Ahaz’s dial, for a sign to Hezekiah, 2 Kings 20:11. The
fiery furnace devouring those at a distance, who cast in Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and not so much as hurting them who were cast into it, Daniel 3:22, 27.

Of living creatures, that have not the use of reason. How mysteriously they went at God’s appointment by pairs into Noah’s ark, Genesis 7:8, 9. The
frogs, lice, locusts, etc. with great supernatural boldness assaulted
the Egyptians to the point that the magicians themselves discerned the hand of God in it, Exodus 8:19! (and strangely withdrew when their work was done, verse 13). Consider also the dumb ass’s speaking to reprove a prophet of his madness, 2 Pet 2:16. The lion’s killing the young prophet from Judah for breaking God’s command, yet not eating his carcass,
nor tearing his ass, not acting an inch beyond a prophetic declaration from God, 1 Kings 13:26,28. A raven bringing food to sustain God’s prophet at the brook of Cherith, 1 Kings 17:6. The great fish’s, at God’s command, receiving Jonah,
and casting him on dry land, without harm, on the shore of Nineveh, Jonah
1:17. Also, the lions’ not hurting Daniel in their den, yet hungrily devouring his accusers, Daniel 6:22, 24

4. From the attestations and confessions of those who have walked with God.

Melchizedek and Abraham both call him “The Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth, Genesis 14:19. 22.

Job professes, that though he were righteous, yet if God will contend with him, “he will not contend with him, but make supplication to his Judge,” Job 9:15. “The Lord has made all things for himself,” Proverbs 16:4. “For his pleasure they are and were created,” Revelation 4:11. “We are the clay, and thou our potter,” Isaiah
64:8, “He worketh all things after the counsel of his own will,” Ephesians 1:11. “He giveth not account of any of his matters,” Job 33:3. “In his hand is the soul of every living thing,” Job 12:10. “He is the God of the spirits of all flesh,” Numbers 16:22. “All nations before him are less than nothing and vanity,” Isaiah 40:17. “He stills the tumult of the people,” Psalm 16:7. “If it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it,” Acts 5:89. “The counsel of the Lord, it shall stand,” Proverbs 19:21. Psalm 38:11, “The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord,” Proverbs 16:38. The kingdom is the Lord’s, and he is Governor among the nations,” Psalm 22:28.

5. Evidence from the angels, who are “great in power;” notwithstanding which, they do perfectly own and submit to the sovereignty of God.

Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Psalms 103:20

And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God. Revelation 22:8-9

The apostate angels, or wicked spirits manifest appropriately their submission hence it was, that the devil dared utter a word, when that fatal sentence
was pronounced on him for seducing our first parents, Genesis 3:15.

And to touch Job, or any thing he had, he seeks permission first from God, and dared not vary a jot from the permission granted him.

In many instances Christ commanded
them forth with authority; yea a whole legion at once, Luke 8:30, 33. Nor
could they so much as enter into the swine without his permission, Mark 5:1.

And, which is more, they were subjected to the apostles, who had but a
delegated, or secondhand power over them, Luke 10:17

6. God’s determining the fate and eternal fate of man. He may do what he wills with his own (Romans 9:18). To show, or not to show mercy, to persons equally dignified, (or rather undignified.) in themselves; to make of the same lump one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor. To make one rich and make one poor (1Sam 2:7). To make one deaf, mute or blind, and the other hearing, speaking and seeing (Exodus 4:11, John 9:2-3). Five sparrow worth two farthings, but none falls to the ground except by the will of the Father.

7. The Lord’s overruling the designs and actions of men, to bring his own counsels to pass;” although improper in their own nature, yea, disservient thereto;
and sometimes by men contrived on purpose to prevent them.

The project of building Babel’s tower, to keep that rebellious rout together, is
turned to their utter dispersion, Genesis 11;4, 8.

To stop the fulfilment of Joseph’s
dreams, his brethren sell him into Egypt: by this means however, God
keeps them all alive, and accomplishes that fulfilment which they intended to prevent (Genesis 37:9, 20, 28; 42:6, 1:18, 20). Pharaoh intensified his affliction on the children of Israel to reduce them, but God caused them to multiply under it. “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.” Exodus 1:12

7. God’s actual predominating over and subduing the spirits men, in calling and
converting whom he will. Saul who had been the great persecutor of the church became the great Apostle of the same church he once persecuted.

For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. Galatians 1:13,23

8. God’s creating both good and evil.

“That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” Isaiah 45:6,7

“See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.” Deut. 32:39

” …I have created the waster to destroy.” Isaiah 54:16

“…shall there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it?” Amos 3:6

9. From those several acts which cannot be derived (at least not so immediately) from any other attribute than that of sovereignty, viz:
God’s putting man’s everlasting condition on his eating or non-eating the
fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, Genesis 2; 17. In saving some animals from the flood and allowing others to be destroyed, including those of the same species. In preserving Ham from the deluge, though he was as wicked as those that perished, Genesis 7:13. In ordering the blessing to Jacob, who sought it unduly; and denying it to Esau, who sought it diligently, and to whom it belonged of natural right, Genesis 27:19, 34. In loving Jacob and hating Esau even before they had done either good or evil,” Romans 9:11,13.

10. God’s setting forth antithetical situations. “…the elder shall serve the younger,” Genesis 25:23.

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. Ecclesiastes 6:2

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11