44 The Hiflory of Bers. 

gel, to the meaneft Infect, is but one King- } 
dom or Empire under the fupreme Sove- 
reign, with whom none can vie, either as 
- ‘to the Sublimity of his Throne, Abfolute- — 
nefs of his Power, or Extent of his Empire; 
his Kingdom ruling over all. Here, and 
here only, is the univerfal abr 
The whole rational World of Angels, and 
Men are his voluntary Subjects, or under 
his powerful Controul. | 
Holy Angels and good Men are his moft 
willing Servants, Subjects of Choice to the 
Father of Spirits; and that is their Hap- 
pincls, 0) | 
Devils and wicked Men are fubjeét un- 
willingly, and thro’ Conftraint ; and that is 
their Mifery. 
He rules alfo among the Nations of the 
Earth, and gives the Kingdoms thereof to 
whom he pleafeth. Promotion comes not from 
the Haft, nor from the Weft, but he pulls down 
one, and jets up another.. He is King of 
Kings, and Lord of Lords; the only inde- 
pendent Potentate. 
His Dominion extends likewife to the 
Brutal World; Fowls, Beaits, Fithes, with 
flying Infects and Reptiles, ‘Witnef the 
Quails in the Jewifh Camp; * the Den of 
Lions, + ‘fonah’s Whale, { with fome of 
the Plagues of Egypt.§ 
In 
—. * Pial. tv40. . t+ Dan. ‘vi. 36, +t Jonah in iz, 
Hic 10. § Pfal. cv. 31, 34. 
