A Sermon on Occafion of a public Fall. 345 his judgments upon the lands that wete be- SERM. come obnoxious to his juft vengeance for XIII. their grievous trefpaífes; as firft, the AJJ'rians, """4 afterwards, the Chaldeans, were fent to cor- red Ifrael and fudah : in like manner it pleafed the great Ruler of the world to make the Medes and Perfians the minifters of his vengeance againft great Babylon devoted to utter deftrwftion. Now, how grand, how awful an idea doth this give us of the divine adminiftration! The fupreme Ruler, tho' to us invifible, is intimately prefent in all parts of his vaft em- pire, infpefing their affairs, guiding their motions and changes. In the firft chapter of this book, this is reprefented in vifion to the prophet Ezekiel by animated wheels ; teaching us that the elements, and courfe even of corporeal nature, are under an intelligent direction. The vaft orbs, which continually and regularly move on in that appointed order, not only ferve their more general and obvious purpofes, but fulfil the more parti- cular purpofes of the governing fpirit pre - fiding over them : and, efpecially, it is to be obferved that the adminiftration of the great King in his natural dominion is adjufted to the defigns of his moral government. Elibu
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