If God be not the creator of substance ex nihilo, as well as the former of worlds and of things, he cannot be absolutely sovereign in his decrees or in his works of creation, providence or grace. On every hand he would be limited and conditioned by the self-existent qualities of pre-existent substance, and their endless consequences. But the Scriptures always represent God as the absolute sovereign and proprietor of all things. Rom. 11:36; 1 Cor. 8:6; Col. 1:16; Reve. 3:11; Neh. 9:6.

A. A. Hodge, The Confession of Faith, 81-82.

The sovereign Creator is sovereign Savior.