Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

His Kingdom rules over all.] He hath an absolute right over all things within the Circuit of Heaven and Earth; though his Throne be in Heaven, as the place where his Glory is most eminent and visible, his Authority most exactly obeyed, yet his Kingdom extends its self to the lower parts of the Earth. He doth not muffle, and cloud up himself in Heaven, or confine his Sovereignty to that place, his Royal power extends to all visible, as well as invisible things: He is proprietor and possessor of all. Deut. 10.14. The Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens is the Lords thy God, the Earth also with all that is there. He hath right to dispose of all as he pleases. He doth not say his Kingdom Rules all that fear him, but over all, so that it is not the Kingdom of Grace he here speaks of, but his natural and universal Kingdom. Over Angels, and Men; Jews, and Gentiles; Animate, and Inanimate things.

His Kingdom rules over all.] He hath an absolute right over all things within the Circuit of Heaven and Earth; though his Throne be in Heaven, as the place where his Glory is most eminent and visible, his Authority most exactly obey'd, yet his Kingdom extends its self to the lower parts of the Earth. He doth not mufle, and cloud up himself in Heaven, or confine his Soveraignty to that place, his Royal power extends to all visible, as well as invisible things: He is proprietor and possessor of all. Deut. 10.14. The Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens is the Lords thy God, the Earth also with all that is there. He hath right to dispose of all as he pleases. He doth not say his Kingdom Rules all that fear him, but over all, so that it is not the Kingdom of Grace he here speaks of, but his natural and universal Kingdom. Over Angels, and Men; Jews, and Gentiles; Animate, and Inanimate things.

The Psalmist considers God here as a great Monarch and General, and all Creatures as his Hosts, and Regiments under him, and takes notice principally of two things.