--1.1111 x sg Of the Kingdom of God. SF R M. ftand this, we mull: obferve, that God bath VI. neceffarily and effentially an univerfal and irrefiftible dominion over his creatures; it is infeparable from his abfolute and infinite perfections ; the fupreme Being, Almighty, and perfectly Wife, muff be the fupreme governor, doing in heaven and earth what - foever pleafeth him. This kingdom is cele- brated in fcripture, and men are called upon to acknowledge and praife it; indeed, it is proclaimed by univerfal nature, and the or- der and harmony of the works of God thew, that a wife and powerful ruler pref deth over them, directing all their motions. All the powers and excellencies of any kind which his creatures are poffeffed of, they derive wholly from him, and hold by no other title than his free gift. As the hea- vens and the earth were made by his word, and their hs by the breath of his mouth, for he fpake and it was done, he commanded and it flood fafl, they depend entirely on his pleafure, and in a moment he can reduce them to nothing. The appearances of na- ture, whether thofe more regular and uni- form, which are fo various and magnificent, or thofe which feem to us extraordinary, as flaking the mountains, removing the rocks out of their places, and making the waters Rand
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