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Show 340 "n.4, OF THE KINGDOM}? e/mp.44. alive. In the hit day ofthe Creation, God faid, Let the Waters produce Reptile am'm‘e viva/stir, the creeping thing that hath in it a Living Soule-7 the Engliflitranilate it, 1/2," bat/1 Life : And aLain, God created W'hales, 07* umnem xii/imam treatment; which in the Englifli is, every Living Creature : Andliltewife ofMan, God made him of the duft of the earth, and breathed in his face the breath of Life, (it faflm tjiHamo in mummy vivemem, that is, and Man was made a Living Creature: And after Non/J came out of the Arke , God faith, hce will no more fmite omntm nmmam 'vwmtem, that is, every Living Creature: And Dent. 12. 23. Eatc not the Blond, fort/1:610:15! iszbc Sou/e, that is, the Life. From which places, if by Sol/[c were meanta Sal;flance Incorparcall, with an exiitence feparated from the Body , it might as well be inferred ofany other living Creature , as of Man. But that the Souls of the Faithfull, are not of theirown Nature, but by Gods {peeiall Grace, to remaine in their Bodies, from the Refurreétion to all Eternity, I have already I think fufhci- ently proved out ofthe Scriptures, in the 38. Chapter. And for the places orthe'New Teflament, where it is Iaid that any man {hall be cait Body and Soul into Hell fire,it is no more than Body and Life-,that is to i'ay,they fliall be caft alive intothe perpetuall fire of Gchenna. mm. Jr". This windowitis, thatgives entrance to the Dark Doctrine, '1".in l'm- firft, ofEternallTorments; and afterwards ofPurgatory,andcon- idler); ml lequently ot the walking abroad, etpeciallyin places Conlecrated, "MN/"'1'": Solitary, or Dark, of the (JllORS or men detealed; andthereby ‘7""W""m" to the pretencesof Exorcniue and Conjuration or Phantal‘mes; l N: ,I . < °» " J ~ -- ' as alfo of Invocation otmen dead; and to the Dot‘trzne ore In- dulgences; that is to fay, of exemption {or a time, or for ever, front the tire OfPurgatory, wherein thele Intorporeall Subitances are pretended by burning to be claimed, and made fit for Heaven. For men being generally poilelled bttore the tune or our Saviour, by contagion of the Dirmonology ol the (littlfi, of an Tf-‘CII‘W‘I‘ Pt". 4. OF DARKNESSE. C54P_44; them-7 and made it evident, that the Kingdome ofGod,,initituted by Mofes, ended in the election of Saul : After which time the Priefi of his own authority never depofed any Kin . That which the High Prieft did to Athaliah, was not done in is OWnc right, but in the right of the young King Joaih her Son: But So- lomon in his own right depoied the High Priefl Abiathar, and fee up anotherin his place. The mofi difficult place to anfwer, of all thoie that canbebrought, to prove the Kingdom: of God by Chrift is already in this world, is alledged, not by Bellarmine, nor any other of the Church of Rome-7 but by Beza; that will havcltto begin from the Relurreaion of Chrif't. But whether hee intend thereby, to entitle the Presbytery to the Supreme Power Ecclefiaiticztllin the Common-wealth of Geneva, (and confequently to every Presbytery in every other Common-wealth,) or to Princes, and other Civill Soveraigns, I doe not know. For the Presbytery hath challenged the power to Excommunicate their owne Kings, and to bee the Supreme Moderatorsin Religion, in the places where they have that form of Church government no leffe then the Pope eallengeth it univerihlly. ) The words are (Marie 9. 1.) ley [flay untoyou, tlmt time be Afimm the fame oft/7m; I/mtfltzxd berr,wlzit/2flmllnat it}? ofdeath, till 1/er 1141/: text on which fame 1/): Kingdom: of Guzz'come nut/1pm". Which words, if taken Bc‘za mft'T‘ grammat ically, makeit certaine, that eitherlbme of theft: men that "TM/Mm" flood by Chrift at that time,arc yet alive; or elfe, that the Kinudome ""34"" °f ot‘God mutt be now in this prel‘ent world. And then there is ahother Cbnfl big" place more difficult : For when the Apoflles after our Saviours Re- "ribs MW fiirrectioiuand immediately before his Attention, asked our Saviour "mm." faying,(ACts 1.6.) 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Which is as much as to fay, M opinion, that the Souls of men Were {ubihtnees diltint‘t from that Kingdome is not yet come, not ihall you foreknow when it {ha I Bodies, and therefore that when the Body \ixisdeaththe Bottle of every man, whether godly,or melted, mull lubliit touieuhereby vertue of its own nature, without acknowledging tllt‘l'cln any iiiei‘iittttii‘allgiitt)f Gods; the Doctors or tht'Churth doubted a ong tune, what was the plate, which they were to abide tutti] come -, toritihall come as atheefe in the night; But I will fend you the Holy Ghoit, and by him you ihall have power to bear: witnefle they ihould be rc-united totheir Bodies in the lielui'reetion; iL‘Pt poilng for a \tlule, they lay under the Altars : "u; afterwardthe does this agree With the comming of Chrifls Kingdome at the Refurreetionr And that which StJfiml faics( r Tbe/]u/.r.9,ro.) 77);" Church of Rome round it more prot‘itable, to burld rot :hem Il11> place of Purgatory; which byl‘ome otherCiiurches in this later 1/1!) tm-mdfrom Ida/r, tit/ewe the living and rm: God, and" wait: for 1m Sta/me from HM'UCII; Where to waite for his Sonne from Hea- age, has been (lt iuolilhed. vcn,is to wait for his comming to be King in power; which were not necefiary, it‘his Kingdome had beene then prefent. Againe, ifthe Let Us now coniider , what texts of Scripture teem 111011 In 'l‘fi‘hlfllf; ‘1" confirm thelethree generall Errors, 1 have hue touched. A> ,fl,(.,,,‘.,j,",m, 19" thote "inch Cardinall Btlldl'llllllc lldllldil'c‘u'SL'uIUI' t;.e preicnt ymmblwdm hingdome oi (iodadminuliedb\ the Pope, uhan \xiziehthere 11c Worry/"yum, none that make a better thewor'proot, " l have ahtfitiv :nin ertt: .1. th, \‘aKA‘ to all the world (by your preaching) of my Refurreé‘tion, and the workes I have done,and the doctrine I have taught,that they may beleeve in megand expect eternall life, at my corumiug againe : How Kingdome ofCod began (.15 Bag: on that place (MM: 9. I.) would Invert) at the Refurreftion, what reafon is there for Chrifiiansc- ver hnee the Refurreftion to fay in their prayers, Let 1/1] Kingdom Cm: f It is therefore manifefi,that the words of St. Mark are not {0 X x to |