Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

4. Proposition, This Sovereignty is extensive over all Creatures. He rules all, as the Heavens do over the Earth. He is King of Worlds, King of Ages, as the word translated eternal signifies, 1 Tim. 1.17. [Greek or Hebrew]. And the same word is so translated, Heb. 1.2. By whom also he made the Worlds, the same word is rendered Worlds, Heb. 11.3. The Worlds were framed by the Word of God. God is King of Ages or Worlds, of the invisible World, and the sensible, of all from the beginning of their Creation, of whatsoever is measured by a time. It extends over Angels and Devils, over wicked and good, over rational, and irrational Creatures; all things bow down under his hand, nothing can be exempted from him: Because there is nothing but was extracted by him from nothing into being. All things Essentially depend upon him: And therefore must be Essentially Subject to him; the extent of his dominion flows from the perfection of his Essence, since his Essence is unlimited, his Royalty cannot be restrained. His Authority is as void of any imperfection, as his Essence is; it reaches out to all points of the Heaven above, and the Earth below. Other Princes Reign in a spot of ground. Every worldly Potentate hath the confines of his dominions. The Pyrenean Mountains divide France from Spain, and the Alps, Italy from France. None are called Kings absolutely, but Kings of this or that place. But God is the King, the spacious Firmament limits not his dominion. If we could suppose him bounded by any place in regard of his presence; yet he could never be out of his own dominion; whatsoever he looks upon, wheresoever he were, would be under his rule. Earthly Kings may step out of their own Country into the Territory of a Neighbour Prince; and as one leaves his Country, so he leaves his dominion behind him; but Heaven and Earth and every particle of both is the Territory of God. He hath prepared his Throne in the Heavens, and his Kingdom Rules over all.

4. Proposition, This Soveraignty is extensive over all Creatures. He rules all, as the Heavens do over the Earth. He is King of Worlds, King of Ages, as the word translated eternal signifies, 1 Tim. 1.17. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. And the same word is so translated,