'62. 4 Book IV. Part. 3· Leoki.~:Jg untq :jeff#. Chap.3 . Sect.~ ----·-Gentiles that they net>d not feare his ufurpation, my Ki11gdome J b 8 G u NOt o[thu Wur/J. He rwes Klngdomcs chat are eternal, but 0 .1 ·3 • he will take awa.y none r>at are temporal; Chrill: came not into the world to be Cr[ars , or Pifates, or Hervds fucceffour, but if they had beleeved, to have been their Saviour. Look through the Chronicles ofhis life, and we finde him fo far from a King, that he was chemeanefi fervant ·- of all rri~n; where was he bome but at Bethlehem a little City? where did the ihepheards tirrde himbut in a poore cottage! who were his difciples · but a deale offi{hermen ? who his co-mpanions but publicans and finnm? is he hungry ? where frands his cable but on plame ground? what are his damries but bread and a fe\v fiihes ? where ishis lodging b~t at the frerne of a.fhip? here's a King without either prefence-chamber, or bed-chamber, the fr;xrs have hulrs, .r~nd the tirds oftheayre h,!Venrfls,but theSon4 m11n hath not wh£mn tolny his head. Come, f~are not Pilttte the Joffe of thy diadem ; it may be the people would fometimes have·made ,h im a King, but fee how he flyesfrom it, my Kingdome is not of thu world, faith Jefus. Oh that I could hue contemne the world as Chrifr did ! Oh rlla·t firfi: and above all I could feek the Kingdome of God and his righte.:>ufgelfe ! Oh my foul, I feel ir, I feel it1 un!eff;: l can be free from the affet'l:ion of all creatures, I cannot with fi·eedome of ininde afpire unto divine things; unlelfe I be willing with Chrifi to tread on crownes and fcepters, to be defpifed and forfaken or all, and to be eHeemed nothing at all, I can have no in- \vard peace. nor be fpirirually enlightened, nor be wholly united to the Lord Jefus Chrift. s. Confider thehurryings of Jefusfrom Pi/,ae to Hmd, there is he q11Pjfionrd ofm.l»J things, but jufrly is the Lambe of God dumbe, and opened not his mouth to him that not lor.1g before had taken away his voyce; upon this he is mockfd, and arrayed. Luke ·:tJ.Il. in a ;,orgeom robe; wifdome is taken for folly, vertue for vier, truth for bla.fphemy, temperance for gluttony, the peace. maker of all the world for afeditious difturber of the world, thereformer of the Law for a breaker of the Law, and, the jufrifier of finners for a finner, aMd the follower of finners. See how he emptied himfelfe, and made himfelfe of no reputation that hemight fill thee with goodnefs,and make thee fpirituallywife unto falvacion. 6. Con-
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