3 6 Conver ation. but He is alfo Lord over all the World in force fenfe. But then you will fay, How doth Hefay, that His Kingdom is not of this world ifHe be Lordover all the world ? Now that I might come to that point that I have chofen the test for, we are to know that Chrift hath a double Kingdom Firft, Together with the Father He bath a Providential King; dom ( as I may fay for diftinffion fake. ) Secondly, He hath a Mediatory Kingodm ( as Divines call it.) Fidi, A-Providential Kingdom together with the Father where" byHe mannages all the affairs of the: world, (I fay) God-man, the fecond Perlon in Trinity doth mannage all the affairs of the world. His Scepter ruleth over all : as God did make all things by Chrift, fo He doth govern all things by Him; if God had not deputed the fecond Perfon in Trinity God-man the Media- tor to have been the the governer ofall things, the holinefs and juflice ofGod according to the Covenant ofworks by which he had to deal with man would have deftroyed the world upon mans fn; had not the ordering and governing of the world been put into the hand of the fecond perfon in TrinityGod-man the Mediator, for thoughhe was not manifefted in the flefh, He had not aEtually taken our human Natureupon Him, yet he was look'd uponas God-man with the Father even before the foundationof the world was laid, and fo all things were committed to Him ; And hence the world notwithftanding the fin that bath been in it hath been preferved fo as it hath been to this day ; Chrift therefore bath a Providential Kingdom to- gether with the Father,and fo he is King,not over the Churches only, the Kingof the Saints, but He is over all the Heathen, o -, ver all the world, from the rilingofthe Sun to the letting there- of; And theCivil Magiftrat Cas I may fo fay) is the Deputy of Chrift in this his providential Kingdom, Gods Vicegerent upon. Earth, all Magiftrates whatfoever arc ()dicers fubordinate un-, der Him. But now there's another Kingdom of Chrift that this Scrip: ture fpeaks of, My Kingdom ìz not of thLs world, That is, the Kingdom of the Mediator (as Divines calls it,) that more prop perly concerns His. Chruch in the execution of His Mediatory Office
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