ways_: which is as _Beza_ notes: _Ex arbitrio suo vivere, nulla ipsis præscripta ratione religionis_. And in this sense, and to this purpose it is that _God gave_ (παρέδωκεν) _them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts_; because of that horrible Idolatry that formerly they were guilty of. 4. God ruleth his creatures by his providence, sometimes by repressing, prohibiting and impeding the execution of their wicked wills, as is clear in the case of _Abimelech_ King of _Gerar_, who took _Sarah_ _Abrahams_ Wife intending to have had carnal knowledge of her, but God plagued him and his Family, and said; _For I also withheld thee from sinning against me; therefore I suffered thee not to touch her_. Now we shall come to consider how the faln Angels are under the rule and restraint of this Divine and all-governing providence, wherein we shall make it appear, that they act nothing in this elementary and sublunary World, after any corporeal manner, but as they are ordered, licensed and limited by the will and decree of the Almighty, and so do not wander and rove at their own pleasures to act in corporeal things, what, when and how they list, as the Witchmongers vainly suppose, and this we shall clear in these particulars. 1. It cannot rationally be supposed that God is less wise, in ruling and ordering the Prince of darkness, the Prince of Devils, and the head of all Rebellion and Rebels, than he is in ruling his Subjects and Servants, which are all wicked men; but all these he ruleth with a rod of Iron, and breaketh them in sunder like a Potters vessel: And therefore much more hath he a restraint upon, and a rule over the faln Angels who kept not their first estates, and therefore are reserved in chains in darkness until the judgment of the great day. [Sidenote: Matth. 25. 41.] [Sidenote: Luke 8. 31.] 2. As he is the Prince and Ring-leader of all Sin and Rebellion against God, though he yet have not his final punishment, unto which he is reserved for the judgment of the great day, and though he be not yet thrust into the abysse or great depth, nor into that everlasting fire that is prepared for him and his Angels; yet is he kept in chains and darkness, and can act nothing but as he is licensed, ordered and limited by the Almighty. [Sidenote: _Thom. Aquin. Caten. aur. in Luc._ 8. _p._ 200.]