-1/4,410 The Priejlhoodof Chrij.--" verall laves, and rules of working by his wit-dome fet I them, in thewhich they wait uponhim, and according I unto which they move like Ezek;th wheeles, by the condu&ofan invisible Spirit and by the commandof a voyce that is above them,as iftheyunderflood the Law of their Creator, and knew theprecepts which they doe obey, Eteka .25,26. 92fa/. 104.19. Nocreature is for its felfeonely, or itsowne end, for that which bath not its beingofits felfe, cannot be an end unto it felfe, in as much as the endof every thing which is made is antece-- dent to the beingofit in the minde and intentionof him that made it. The endofthings is, as amarketfixed and 4 immoveable in the purpofe of the fupreme caufe, the creatures as thearrow, orderedby a tnofl wife, and effi- cations providence, fome through naturall and neceffa- ry, others voluntary and contingent motions unto one and the fame general! end, the gloryand lett/ice of the Creator. Secondly, no creature is in its being, or in anythofe operations and fervices vvh:ch toGod it owes, intrinfe- cally, and of it felfe immutable. It is Godsowne pecu- liar honour to bee without variableneffe or fhadowof changing ,lans.a.17. M41.3.6., There wasa. time when the Sunne flood !fill, and moved backward, and wasfil- kd with darkneffe, as with an internal! cloud ;.when the Lions have forgotten to devoure, and the fire to con-. fume, and the Whales to concoca, God can as he w ill alter the courfes of nature, let goe the reines, anddif- pence with the rules which himfelfe had fecretly impo- fed upon the creatures to obferve, which fbewes that theyarcnot in themfelves immutable.. That conflancie which in their motions they obferve, isfrom the regular government of that moll wife providence which carries them to their end witheatany turniisg, Ezek.1.17. but when his glory requires, and his will commands it, the mountaines tremble, the lea cleavesafunder, the- rivers tuna
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