Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

3. This of Dominion, as well as that of Power, hath been acknowledged by all. The High Priest was to wave the Offering, or shake it to and fro. Exod. 29.24. which the Jews say, was customarily from East to West, and from North to South, the four quarters of the World, to signify Gods Sovereignty over all the parts of the World. And some of the Heathens in their Adorations turned their Bodies to all quarters, to signify the extensive Dominion of God throughout the whole Earth. That Dominion did of right pertain to the Deity, was confessed by the Heathen in the name Baal, given to their Idols, which signifies Lord; and was not a name of one Idol, adored for a God, but common to all the Eastern Idols. God hath interwoven the notion of his Sovereignty in the Nature and Constitution of Man, in the noblest and most inward acts of his Soul, in that faculty or act which is most necessary for him, in his converse in this World either with God or Man. 'Tis stamped upon the Conscience of Man, and flashes in his face in every act of self Judgment Conscience passes upon a Man. Every reflection ⟨p. 705⟩of Conscience implies an obligation of man to some Law written in his Heart. Rom. 2.15. This Law cannot be without a Legislator, nor this Legislator without a Sovereign Dominion; these are but natural, and easy consequences in the mind of Man from every act of Conscience. The indelible Authority of Conscience in Man, in the whole exercise of it, bears a respect to the Sovereignty of God, clearly proclaims not only a supreme being, but a supreme Governor, and points man directly to it, that a man may as soon deny his having such a reflecting principle within him, as deny Gods Dominion over him, and consequently over the whole World of rational Creatures.

3. This of Dominion, as well as that of Power, hath been acknowledged by all. The High Priest was to wave the Offering, or shake it to and fro. Exod. 29.24. which the Jews say, was customarily from East to West, and from North to South, the four quarters of the World, to signifie Gods Soveraignty over all the parts of the World. And some of the Heathens in their Adorations turned their Bodies to all quarters, to signifie the extensive Dominion of God throughout the whole Earth. That Dominion did of right pertain to the Deity, was confest by the Heathen in the name Baal, given to their Idols, which signifies Lord; and was not a name of one Idol, adored for a God, but common to all the Eastern Idols. God hath interwoven the notion of his Soveraignty in the Nature and Constitution of Man, in the noblest and most inward acts of his Soul, in that faculty or act which is most necessary for him, in his converse in this World either with God or Man. 'Tis stampt upon the Conscience of Man, and flashes in his face in every act of self Judgment Conscience passes upon a Man. Every reflection