101~ Book.V.• L.ooking tmto .Jef tf1· . Chap. I .Sect. i · Rev.H.J )· . ltc,v,p. t6, ! 7~ 18, . . . fpiril:s of the jufr,.and the bleffed Angels that.have lived .together in heavens bliffe, had never fuch an adventitious joy as this be• . fere; now they iliout and fing a new & bleffed fong, the Kingdomes of thi& world, are become the' Kingdomes of our Lord, , and of hi? {hrifl, and he fball r.eigHe for ever and ever. . We may call this · heavens tryumph for the finijbing4Gods.myftery. · Now it is that . Chrift will vindicate his Kingdome, and oyerthrow the power of · his enemies; they ha.d long fet themfe!ves againft the Lord, and ' againft .his anoynted~ the.Kings of the earth; and. the Rulers . confederated, they ruled all,apd as much as in them lay, excluded Chrifr ; but now the ·Kingdomes of the world · will returne to . Chrifr, and he aloneiliall rule; and thence the winged querifters . of heaven chant forth this antheme, the Kingdomes of the world. , arebecome the Kingdomes ofChrift. . 3. After this ,fuour, the foure and twenty Elders which fit befori? · God on their{elites ,fall upon their faces, andworjbip God,f.qing, we- [,ive thee thank! 0 Lord God Almighty, which-art, and w11(f, and 11rtto come, becaufe thou haft tak.,en to thee thygreat power, and haft reigned; atJd the nations- were ~n1,ry, &c... By tliefe foure and< twenty Elders we underftand alliGods Saints ofrheOld and New Teftament, comprehended under rhe twelve Patriar~hes, and twelve · Apoftles; others would have them to be only thofeSaintsoftheOld Teftament, and therefore · called Elders; who fo,c:ver they are, we finde they are -fo glad at this:newes, that Chri!l: ,will now judge the world, that prefently they rife off their · feates, and fall on their faces ; and .fir!l: . ·they praife, and then they pra,, : 1. They prai.fe God for taking to himfelfe his own, pQwer ·; Chrift connived (as it were) till now at the power of his- . enemyes; Antichrifr, and not Chrift feemed to rule, ·and to fit. in the TernpkofGod ;· but now ( hri.ft is refolved to rule him-· . felfe, aod .to make all his enemyes.his footfioole: and -therefore· · now w~give theethankJ, 0 LQrd. God Almighty. ·. 2. They pray Chrill to go_on to judgement. I. Becaufe the nations were an~ . gry, q d. they have been angry Jong eno!Jgh, d1ey have fet: themfel ves againfr Cbri ft and againll his Church; : and therefore · · now it is time to bri-dle their wrath,and to break themwith a rod.. of iron, 0 let thy wrath ccme. 2. Becaufe the time of judgement is now accomplilhed which God hao decreed in his eternal ' (Q.Qnfe!, a~ which thl! Father had put in hisown power.; thu ' · · timt
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