From the difference between the other two kinds of God’s word, “rational” and “prophetic,” there may be attributed to God a twofold kingdom, “natural” and “prophetic”: natural, wherein He governeth as many of mankind as acknowledge His providence by the natural dictates of right reason; and prophetic, wherein having chosen out one peculiar nation, the Jews, for His subjects, He governed them, and none but them, not only by natural reason, but by positive laws, which He gave them by the mouths of His holy prophets. Of the natural kingdom of God I intend to speak in this chapter.