Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

5. This order and Subserviency is constant. Children change the customs and manners of their Fathers: Magistrates change the Laws they have received from their Ancestors, and enact new ones in their room: But in the world all things consist as they were created at the beginning; The Law of nature in the Creatures hath met with no change.^* Who can behold the Sun rising in the morning; the Moon shining in the night; increasing and decreasing in its due spaces; the Stars in their regular motions night after night, for all ages, and yet deny a President over them? And this motion of the Heavenly bodies, being contrary to the nature of other Creatures, who move in order to rest; must be from some higher cause. But those ever since the settling in their places, have been perpetually rounding the world:^* What nature, but one powerful and intelligent, could give that perpetual motion to the Sun, which being bigger than the Earth a hundred sixty six times, runs many thousand miles with a mighty swiftness in the space of an hour, with an unwearied diligence, performing its daily task, and as a strong man, rejoicing to run its race, for above five thousand years together, without intermission, but in the time of Joshua? ^*Tis not natures Sun, but Gods Sun, which he makes to rise upon the just and unjust.^*

5. This order and Subserviency is constant. Children change the customes and manners of their Fathers: Magistrats change the Laws they have received from their Ancestors, and enact new ones in their room: But in the world all things consist as they were created at the beginning; The Law of nature in the Creatures hath met with no change.^* Who can behold the Sun rising in the morning; the Moon shining in the night; increasing and decreasing in its due spaces; the Stars in their regular motions night after night, for all ages, and yet deny a President over them? And this motion of the Heavenly bodies, being contrary to the nature of other Creatures, who move in order to rest; must be from some higher cause. But those ever since the setling in their places, have been perpetually rounding the world: