Monarch and prescribed laws

Meaning

The sovereign monarch is a political comparison for God’s relation to the natural order. A ruler is not constrained in precisely the same way as subjects by laws he has prescribed; likewise God can act beyond the ordinary natural reasons by which Nature works.

The comparison preserves an asymmetry rather than granting Nature unrestricted divine power. Nature follows the master’s intention, and natural medicine imitates a divine pattern without becoming identical with it. The local use does not warrant deriving a comprehensive political doctrine or a claim about an actual monarch’s legal powers. Its subject is the distinction of divine freedom from natural causation.