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Show M, 4, 'ler (lard) "n.4, 0 F T H E 1" 1 N G D 0 M L 66.72.44; As men that are utterly deprived from their Natrvrty , of the not)" fully light of the bodily Eye, have noIdea at all, of any fuch llgllt; and 334 freed of no man conceives in risimagination anygreaterhght, than he hath iDdlkfillfg'. at fome time, or other, perceived by us outward Settles : fo alio is it of the light ofthe Gofpel, and of the light of the Underflanding, that no man can conceive there is any greater de ree or it, than that which he hath already attained unto. And from rence it comes to palle, that men have no other means to acknowledge their own: Darknelle, but onel by realonrng lromthe un-foreieen milchances, that befallthem in t reir ways; The Darkefi part of the Kingdom of Satan, is that which is without the Churchot God, that is to fay, amonait them that beleeve not anClUS Chrifi. But we cannot fay, that therefore the Church enjoyeth (as the land or Goihen) all the light, which to the performance ofthe work enromed us by God , is neeellary. erence comes it,that in Chrif‘tendomc there has been, almolt from the time of the Apofiles,iuclr milling of one another out oftheir places, both by for-raign, and ClVlll wart fulch [tumbling at every little aiperity oftheir own fortune, and every little eminence of that of other men? and iuch diverfity of ways in running to the fame mark,Felchty,if it be not Night amongfl us,or at lealt a Mlll'.' wee are four Conifer therefore yet in the Dark. _ ‘ . The Enemy has been here in the Night ofour naturall Ignorance, of Syirituall and {own the tates of S irituall Errors; and that, l‘ll‘ll, by abufing, Darknefe. and putting out the lig rt oftheScriptures: law we erre,notl<nowing the Scriptures. Secondly, by introducmg the Dzrinonology of the Heathen Poets, that is to lay , their rabulous Dottrine concerning Daemons, which are but Idols, or Phantalms or the brarne,wrthout any reall nature of their own,_ldiflrn<ft from humane tangy, luchas are dead mens Ghofis, and Fairies, and other matter or _old Wives tales. Thirdly, by mixing with the Scripture divers reliques or the Religion, and nruch of the vain and erroneous Philolophy or the Greeks, elpecially of Ariflotle.‘ Fourthly, by mrnglmg with both tlreie, falfe, or uncertain Traditions, and tamed, 0r urrtei‘taiirHi- fiory. And Q we come to erre, by giving bred to few/[mg .rpiriir, and the Daemonology or fuch a: [peak [/85 m Hypefl'l/lt , ( or as it is in the Original], 1 Tim. 4. r, 2. of l/Mft‘ that play t/iepari a] lym) mil: 4 fuhred confdemt, that is, contrary totheir own know ledge. Error! {rim millmurre- Concerninfl the firft of there , which is the Seducing of men by abut-e 0T scripture , I intend to {peak brieily in this Chapter. The greatelt, and main abufe of Scripture, andto which ahnoit allthe tell are either conleqtrent, or l‘ubfervienr, is the wrei‘tingor rngithcrip' it, to prove thatthe Kingdome of God, mentioned ioolten in the IN'UaCO'W'i‘ Scripture,is the prefent Church, or multitude or (_.lll'llll(ln men no" "14"" ng‘living, orthatbeingdead, are to rile again at the lalt day : whereas dome of God. the Krngdome ofGod was firfl infiituted by the Minillery of MOifSe over thejewsonely; who were theretore cailcd his Pecuirar 1)ch pie; and ceafed afterward,in the elcftron ot Saul, when they N U‘ led to be governed by God any more,and demanded a King, .ri'ter LL: man . : o p 1) ,1 R KN E S s E. C/Mp. 44'; manner of the nations; which God himfelf contented unto,as I have more at large proved before, in the 35. Chapter. After that time). there was no other Kingdome of God in the world , by an . Paé‘t, or otherwiie,than he ever was, is, and llrall be King, men, and ofall creatures, as governing according to his Will, of all infinite Power. Neverthelefle, he promifed by his Prophets by his to re-‘ {lore this his Government to them again, when the time he. hath in his fecretcounfell appointed forit flrall bee fully come , and when. they fhallturn unto him by repentance, and amendment oflife : and not onely {0, but he invited alto the Gentiles to come in , and enjoy- the happineile ofhis Reign, on the fame conditions ofconv and repentance; and lree promifed alfo to {end his Son erliori world, to expiate the fins of them all by his death, and into the them by his Doctrine, to receive him at his lEcond comin to prepare Which fecond coming not yet being, the Kingdome of God g: is not yet come, and wee are not now under any other Kings by Pact, but our Civill Soveraigns; {aving onely, that Chriltian men are al. ready in the Kingdome of Grace, in as much as they have already the Pi'omile of being received at his comirring a- game. Conleirtienttotlris Eri‘our, that the prel‘ent Church is s A; that the Kingdome, there ought to be form one Man1 or AilemblyChriil , by [(inpdwne of whole mouth our Saviour i now in heaven) l‘peaketh, grveth law, ('VO‘I‘f'l'W'e- and which reprelenteth his Perlon to all Chriflirrns, or divers Men,l'" U'""" or divers Allembhes that doethe lame to divers parts of (.hrillendome. This power Regal under Chriit,being clrallenged,univerlall by the Pope, and in particular Common-wealths by Ailembiies or" the Paflor s ofthe place, (when the Scripture gives itto none but to Civill Sirr‘eraigns, lcomcs to be to piiilionately dilputed , that it putteth out the Lightot'Nature, and cauli-th to great a l).irl\nelle in mens underlianding, that they let not who it is to whom they have engaged their obedience. Conlequent tothis claim ofthe Pope to Vicar Generall of Chriit Ami timtfhc inthe preteri t Clrurcir,tliippoleti to be that Kingdom oilris, to which l‘t-re it in: we are addreiled in the Golpel,)isthe Doctrine, that it is necella i'y iii/‘1‘" {or a Chrilhan King,to receive his Crown by a lliihop; as it "if" it l all: were from that L ei'emony,that he derives the c1aul‘eot‘ [)Ugr‘illiili in his title, and that thenonely he is made King by the favour of God, when he is crowned by the authority of Gods univeriall Vicegerent on earth; and that every liihop wholbeverbc his soveraign, iaketh at his Conttcrarron an oath of ablolute Obedien ce to the Pope. Conlcquent to the fame, is the Doctrine of the fourth Councell ot'Lateran, held under P0pe [ll/MN}!!! the third, (Chap. 3.4(2 Hitl‘fllc‘lf.) 7/th if a King 41! the Pope; mime/mm", do! m7! purge bir A'mga'ome offlgri'fiej, and being excomm unicate for the firm, doe 7101 give flitirfize'han rim/2m a year, 51551412- jrii'r 47: aéf'olmd of the 50nd of t/n'ir abut/mm. Where , by Heerelies are underflood all opinions which the Church of Rome hath forbidden to be maintained. And by this means, as often as V v 2, there |