' 21S Chrifi the l{,"izg I 4· . ' For your fake' (namely, for the fake of the church) ' I pave fent to Babylon, and have brough~ down all the1r nobles, and the ChaJdeans.' V er. · 15. - ~ I am-.-your King.' Thus the King and Head of the church, manageth aU things by his Providence, 1 as well ~ithout as withip the church ; tho' in a very Jifferent manner, ,becaufe in a very different relation, as to his own people, and to firangers. The which was typify'd in David, who, for the benefit of his own kingdom, t~e kingdom of lfrael, was made ' the head of the heathen,' Pfal. xviit 43· For t Da- · vid fmote the Philifiines, and fubdued them,' _2 Sam. \'iii. 1. and the Mo·abites, ver. 2. 'and/ the Syrians, ~ ver. 6. and all they of Edom became David's fer– vants, Ver. 14. 'And David reigneJ ·over all Ifraeljr · and David executed judgment and jufiice unto all his _feople,' Ver. 15. Now the chief acts ofChrifi's adminifiration of the covenant, as he is.King thereof, are thefe,. · Firjl, His appointed ordinances of his kingdom, both for bringing of finners perfonally - into the co– venant, a~1d for confirming and firengthning the co– vcnarited ; as alfo officers of his kingdom, to admi– nifier thefe ordinances in his name and authodty. Both the one aqd the other were different under the Old..:tefiament, and UI?der the New; which hath ma~e · two different forms of external adminifiration of the covenant; the Qld, which is P4ffed away, and the New. that will continue to the end of the world : but both were from the fame authority, and for corn– palling the fame great defigns of the covenant, ag.r~eable. to the different times for which they were appoin– ted ; and are all ofthem to be found in the Scriptures of the Old and New teftament, the booK of the man– ner of the kingdom. 'Twas the fame Lord Jefus, the .ange! of the covenant ' which fpake to Mofes in the mount Sinai,' Acts ,vii. 38. who inffituted the New·tdhunent church and ordinances, and ' gave · fome
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