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Show Long. 017 A CHRISTIAN Chop", fucceffion ofone High Prieft after another, or elfe it accordeth not with St. Peter, nor with the exercife ofthe High priefihood: For there was never any but the High prieli: onely, that was to inform the People ofGods Will-,nor any Convocation ofPriells ever allow. ' ed to enter into the Sont'lttm Sonifornm. pm 3, C 0 M M o‘N-WE AL TH. Chop. 35. David; and heflmll reign over the honfe ofjoooh for eater; And ofho'; Kingzlotnc there [ha/l he no entl. This is all!) a kingdom: upon Earth; forthe claim whereof, as an enemy toCocfar, he was put to death-7 the title ofhis croflé, was, Iefn: of No/Ioreth, King of the lows, hce was crownedin fcornwnh acrown of Thornes; and for Again, the title ofa Holy Notion confirmes the fame : For Holy the proclaiming ofhim, it is {aid of the DifCiples (Ail; 17.7,. ) That fignifies, that which is Gods by fpeciall, not by generall Right. All the Earth( as is laid in the text) is Gods 3 but all the Earth is not they did/ill of them tontr/try to the decree: of (Jojor, fraying toevt'eovto: another King, one Iefm. The Kingdome therefore of God,is a reall, notametaphoricallKingdome, and {0 taken, not onely in the Old called Holy, but that onely which is let apart for his eipeciall fervice, as was the Nation of the Jews. It is therefore in;1niiel't enough Teflament, but the New; when we lay, Forfhz'ne o the Ktngolonoe, by this one place , that by the It'ingo'ome of Goo' , is properly meant a Common-wealth, infiituted (by the confent of thole which the Power, onel Glory, it is to be underflood of Gods Kingdonie, by were to be fubjeét thereto )for their Civill Government, and the re- force of our Covenant, not by the Right of Gods Power; for fuch aKingdome God alwaies hath, To that it were luperfluous to lay gulating oftheir behaviour, not onely towards God their King, but in our prayer, Thy Kingdome come, unlefle it be meant of the alfo towards one another in point ijufticc, and towards other Na- Reltauration of that Kingdome of God by Chriit, which by re- tions both in peace and warre -, which properly was a Kingdomc, wherein God was King, and the High prieli was to be ( after the x-oltof the Ili-aelites had beeninterrupted in the eleétion of Saul. death ofMofes ) his {ole Viceroy, or Lieutenant. ot to pray, 7 by Kingdom: come, irit had [till continued. But there be many other places that clearly prove the fame. As lirfl ( 1 Sun. 8.7.) when the Elders ofIfrael (grieved with the corruption ofthe Sons of Samuel ) demanded a King, Samuel dilpleafed there- Nor had it been proper to lay, The K17golomo of Heaven to at honol; 'i'herebe To many other places that confirm this interpretation, that it were a wonder there is no greater notice taken ofit , but that itgives too much light to Chrillian Kings to fee heir right of with, praycd unto the Lord-, and the Lord anfwcring laid unto him, Eccleliafiicall Government. Henrken unto the voice ofthe People,for they have not rejee7eo' thee, hut they have rejefleoz'me, that Ifloonld not reign over them. Out oil which it is evident, that God himfelf was then their King -, and Samuel did not command the people, but only delivrred to them that which Again,( I Sam. 12.Iz.)where Samuel faith to the Pe0ple , When oraSacem'otall i'r‘lngdome, tranflare, a Ir'ingelome of Prieflr : for they may aswtlltranflate aRoyollPriejl/yood, (as it is in St. Peter) into a l'rir/lhoorl oflx'tngr. And whereas, for a pron/tor people, the put a Pram/to jewel, or Irertfttrt' , a man might as well call the {peciall Regiment, or Company of a Generall, the Generalls preiious lewel, or his'l‘reaiiire. ‘. ycefow that Noho/h King ofthe Children offlrmnon Mme ngomfl you, yefiidttnto me, Nay, hot n King/hall reign over too, when the Lord your . Inihort, the Kingdome of God is a Civill Kingdome; which (unfilled, tiril in the obligation ol‘the people ofIl‘rael tothoie Laws, God from time to time appointed him. This they have obferved, thatin {lead God muyonr King.- It is manifeit that God was their King , and go which Moles ihould bring unto them from Mount Sinai», and which verned the Civill State oftheir Common-wealth. alierwards the High Priell for the time being, thould deliver to them And afterthe Ili‘aelites had rejected God , the Prophets did Fore from before the Chemo/n: in the Sonilnm Snno'lornm, and which tell his refiitution; as ( 1faith 24. 2 3.) Then thoMoon [boll he conformdeu',anoltho Snn o/lmmedgvhon the Lord ofHo/l: [hall reign in Moon! Zion, andin Iemfolem, where he lpealteth exprellelv of his Reign in Zion, and jerufalem, that is, on Earth. And (Mira/i 4. 7. )vxtnd the Lord/hall reign overiheno in Mount Zion : This Mount Zion is in yol‘eg<fi)1‘ctiiltl, ihouldbe reitored by Clii‘ill; and the Rellauration whereof we daily pray for, when we fiiyin the Lords Prayer, Thy Kingdom: tome, and the Right whereot'we acknowledge, when we adde, For thine tithe Ktngolorno, the Power, one! Glory, for e-vcr Jerufalem upon the Earth. Kingdome having been call oh", inthe election of Saul, the Pro- Lord (Iod,fttrely with a mtg/11y hano', and .1 [lrtrehea' out urine , alt-d and over, Amen; anti the Proclaiming wlxereoflwas the Preaching of the Apolllt'S; and to which men are prepared, by the Teachers of zvlthfury poxvred out, Iwil m/o overyouyzndlrvctl-e 37. i I will eon/e yon topofje underthe rod , and I will hr/ng you into the hone! of the the Goipch to embrace which Golpel, (that is to fay, to proinile obedience to Gods government) is, to bee in the Kingdom-e of ‘ Covenant; that is, I will reign over you, and make you to {land to (trace, becaule God hath gram given to fuch the power to that Covenant which you made with me by Moll s', and brake in your rebellion againlt me in the days of Samuel, and in vour election of another King. ' ‘ hit the Subjects (that is, Children) of God hereafter, when Chrilt ihall come in Majel‘ty to judge the world, and ‘aé‘tually ' to governhis owne people , which is called the Ir'zngelomo of Glory. And in the New Teflamcnt, the Angel Gabriel faith of our Sarr Guru-"hf 1.32, 33.) He flue/l he ngit, and he rolled the 50" pl it the Kingdome of God ( called allothe Kingdome of Heaven, from the gloriorilneile, and admirable height of that throne) were 'll‘m‘lfl His/mod the Lord [Ital/give him the throne of his Fat/It; notaliingdome which God by his Lieutenants , or Vicars, who And (EQel'. 20.3 3. ) A; I [weft/1h the Dr. I: ; 1" f deliver |