Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

It must be Universal in all places. An English-man in Spain is bound to obey the Laws of that Country, wherein he resides: and so not responsible there for the breach of the Laws of his native Country. In the same condition is a Spaniard in England. But the Laws of God are to be obeyed in every part of the World; wheresoever divine providence doth cast us, it casts us not out of the places where he commands, nor out of the compass of his own Empire. He is Lord of the World, and his Laws oblige in every part of the World, they were ordered for a World, and not for a particular Climate and Territory.

It must be Universal in all places. An English-man in Spain is bound to obey the Laws of that Country, wherein he resides: and so not responsible there for the breach of the Laws of his native Country. In the same condition is a Spaniard in England. But the Laws of God are to be obeyed in every part of the World; wheresoever divine providence doth cast us, it casts us not out of the places where he commands, nor out of the compass of his own Empire. He is Lord of the World, and his Laws oblige in every part of the World, they were order'd for a World, and not for a particular Climate and Territory.

6. It must be indisputable Obedience. All Authority requires readiness in the Subject; the Centurion had it from his Soldiers, they went when he ordered them, and came when he beckoned to them. Matt. 8.9. 'Tis more fit God should have the same promptness from his Subjects. We are to obey his Orders, though our purblind understanding may not apprehend the reason of every one of them. 'Tis without dispute that he is Sovereign, and therefore 'tis without dispute, that we are bound to obey him, without controlling his conduct. A Master will not bear it from his slave, why should God from his creature? Though God admits his creatures sometimes to treat with him about the equality of his Justice, and also about the reason of some commands, yet sometimes he gives no other reason, but his own Sovereignty, Thus saith the Lord, to correct the malapertness of men, and exact from them an entire obedience to his unlimited and absolute Authority. When Abraham was commanded to offer Isaac, God acquaints him not with the reason of his demand till after,