D.it refers to God's will and power
the spider catching a fly represent Satan and his schemes to entrap men in sin, however God can easily break Satan's Web and save man.
I believe that the metaphysical poets introduced all of those changes and were reacting against the flowery language used in Elizabethan lyrics.
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