Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
Ver. 25. Am I now come up without the Lord?] Without his secret impulse, as 2 Samuel 16:10. The villainous gunpowder plotters pretended that God set them to work to punish this sinful nation. So the Jesuits tell the people that the devil stirred up Luther: and that God sent forth them to oppose him.