A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

so methinks he should allow the Infinitely Wise and Gracious God, to be nevertheless Wise or Gracious, if he Rule the Rational-free-agent, without a forcible Physical Necessitation, by a Gracious Attraction and Sapiential Conduct, agreeable to the Reason and Liberty of the Creature, as long as we exclude not the Co-working of Omnipotency, nor deny the infallibility of ⟨p. 145⟩Divine Predefinition, which may be secured with the security of the Creatures Liberty.

In a word, to deny God to be the Sovereign Governor of the world in proper sense, 1. Is a denying him to be God: it being a term of Relation, comprising Government, and not of mere Nature: When it is commanded us that we have no other Gods, and when we are required in the holy Covenant to take the Lord for our God, and give up our selves to him as his people, it most plainly expresseth that his Governing Authority, or his Sovereignty is comprehended in the term God. And indeed having made a Rational-free-creature, whose Nature requireth Moral Government, it followed by necessary resultancy that he that had sole Authority and sufficiency, must be his Sovereign.

In a word, to deny God to be the Soveraign Governour of the world in proper sense, 1. Is a denying him to be God: it being a term of Relation, comprizing Government, and not of meer Nature: When it is commanded us that we have no other Gods, and when we are required in the holy Covenant to take the Lord for our God, and give up our selves to him as his people, it most plainly expresseth that his Governing Authority, or his Soveraignty is comprehended in the term God. And indeed having made a Rational-free-creature, whose Nature requireth Moral Government, it followed by necessary resultancy that he that had sole Authority and sufficiency, must be his Soveraign.