5. Nothing then is withdrawn from the power
of God; for the Scripture says of Him, for all things are Thy
servants Ps. cxix. 91.. All things
alike are His servants, but from all these One, His only Son, and One,
His Holy Spirit, are excepted; and all the things which are His
servants serve the Lord through the One Son and in the Holy
Spirit. God then rules all, and of His long-suffering endures
even murderers and robbers and fornicators, having appointed a set time
for recompensing every one, that if they who have had long warning are
still impenitent in heart, they may receive the greater
condemnation. They are kings of men, who reign upon earth, but
not without the power from above: and this Nebuchadnezzar once
learned by experience, when he said; For His kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, and His power from generation to
generation Dan. iv. 34..