294 NATURAL TllEOLOli-Y. 



It may likewise be acknowledged, that no argument? 

 whicK we are in possession of exclude the ministry of subor- 

 dinate agents. If such there be, they act under a presiding, 

 a controlling will, because they act according to certain 

 general restrictions, by certain common rules, and, as it 

 should seem, upon a general plan ; but still such agents, and 

 different ranks and classes and degrees of them, may be 

 employed. 



