to the E PHE S I AN S. The Second thing that I would add is this, That t~e governments of this~ World, which are called you ]mow PrwCJpaltttes and Powers; they are ufed Sermo1 as expreffions to lignifie out untous the governments 1n rhe other Worlds, or 1f XXXII. you will, !nvi!ible governments, that 1s the better expreffion of the two. That~ though there be a fubordtnatton of Angels amongfl themfelves, yet he cloth exprefs it by the fame Names that theGovernments here below are exprefl~ of p,.; 11 cipalities a11d Powers, and Mtght mid 'Domt11t011; for thts World IS a Scheme of rhe other World, and the government of this vi!ible World, is a fhadow of the government of the invi!ibk World•. I will add a Third thing, and that IS tlus; That 1f the ApoHie fpeaks here of Angels, os certainly he doth, both good and bad, h1s fcope ts not to lhew by thefe feveral titles, feveral aCl:wns ot Angels, but feveral ranks of Angels d 1• fiinCt, though exprefl to us under what is here in this World. That is clear froni Coloff.I.t6. Thi11g s vijible, or it.viflble ; whether (fatth he) the. be Thro11es or 'Domittio11s, or p,.,·11cipalities or Powers. That fame word, •h•, Whether, im– plieth that they are difiinCl:. It is not, that the fame Angel is fometimes a Thro11e, and fometimes a 'Domi11io11, ufed in feveral works; but as amongfi men there are feverarOffices, fo likewif.-mongfl them. . So much now in the general, for the explicatibn of this, Pri11cipalit~ a 11 d Power, Might and'Domi11io11. · Now then,. of the Governours of this World there is no guellion. But all the quefiion is of the lnvi!ible governments the Angels, good and bad, which here Jefus Cbrifi IS fatd to have under hts feet,that are called PrmC1paht~ts MtdPow– trs. I will handle them both together,and mamfcfl unto you,That there IS a Cub– ordination (what we know not) of Angels, of lnviftble governments, both good and bad, in refpeCl: of which they are (as the Scnpture calleth them) Prmci• palities and Pow ers, both the one and the other, I lhalllhew you the Sub– ordination or the Stlperiority that there is both amongfl themfell'es, and alfo over this World, in ordering the affairs thereof. There is a fubordination both of good and bad Angels amongfi themfelves, and there is likewife a fubordinatiori in refpeCl: of ordering the affairs of this World ; and over all thefe is Jefus Chrift fo far above, as that they are all under his feet. • • Firfl, for the Angels among themfelves. It is a clear cafe of the bad An– gels; for of the Devils it is faid, Matt. 12. 24. that there is Beetzd;ub, the 'l'ri11ct of the 'Devils. And in the fame place (for it was an ObjeCl:iort made againfi Chrifl, That he cajl ottt 'Devils by the power of the Pri11ct of the 'De– vils.) Our Saviour Chrifl anfwereth at the 2)th verfe, Every ](;,~~dom di– vided agai11(/ it Jelf caf!not flarzd; tf Satan cafl out Sata11, he ;., divided ti– gai11f/htmfelf, how/halt thm his Kingdomrland? He compareih them to a Kittgdom, and he comparetll them to a Kingdom for t'flis, that as in a King– dom there is a power Superiour and Subordinate, fo there is .amoog!l: them. In Ephej.2.2. the Apofile fpeaks of the Pri11ce of the power of the Air. By Power there he certainly meaneth the Devils, who are called Priltcipality a 11 d Power, the fame name t~~-;of~r; and by a:Px:w~ , their Pri11ce, lile cettainly mean· eth the great Devil, that great Serpent that tempted Adam; he calleth all the refi in the Singular Number, becaufe they all agree together in one for mifchief; they are as one Army, and as one Kingdom, whereof he is the General; he is itn.•v. Therefore our Saviour Chrifl calleth him, the Pri11ce of this World. And, if you mark it, our S•viour Chrifl cloth not deny (in that place [ quoted before,) but that the great Devil, he could have commanded the lelfer Devils out; only he faith this, h~ confuteth them another way, faith he, It is itl'r– pollible he fhould be fo foohlh to do fo, for then he mufi divide his Kingdom againfi himfelf. There lieth our Saviour's reafon; he dcnieth not but tl)at the great Devil could have commanded the lelfer, for he is the Prince of 'IJevils, he is the Prince of the power of the Air, that is, of all the whole Army of pevils tha~ are in the Air, who are but one ~ower,. one force, as you cali u.
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