46 The Hiftory of Brus. 
Commiffion. Winds and Waves are huth’d 
and calm’d with thofe powerful Words, 
Peace, be fill He is fole ate and Ruler 
of the Seas. 
Pal by Words the raging Wind controul, 
And rule the boiftrous Deep ; 
Thou mak’ ft the fleeping Billows roll, 
The rolling Billows fleep.-P 
And the Element of Fire is as entirely 
under his Dominion, as that of Water. Wit- 
nefs the burning Furnace, into which Sha- 
drach, Mefhech and Abednego, (the three Jew= 
ifh Worthies,) were caft bound ; yet no Smell 
of Fire on them, nor one Hair of their Heads 
finged.t Tho’ the Men of Might who 
caft them in were confumed by the Flames, 
God fufpended the hurtful deftructive Na- 
ture and Quality of that mercilefs Element ; 
and by Faith they quenched the Violence of 
the Fire. 
Thus we fee the Univerfe governed by 
the One God, Father Almighty, Maker of 
Heaven and Earth. , 
And thefe little, yet moft admirable In- 
fects, are very apparently a perfect Monar- 
chy agreeable to this original Plan or Model. 
They cannot thrive; nor live, but in Soci- 
ety; and under a Sovereign. And what 
, would 
* Mark iv. 39. Stara, TEQH LATO t Dr. Watts. 
Pfal, Ixxxix, { Daa, iil. 23, 27. . 

