Gof jel-Converfatiox. 149 Now I íhould have filmed you how thisKingdom ofJefus aria will certainly prevail in the wor-ld,let theworld do what they can. In the z. Pfal. ret have Ifet My Icingupon My holy Hill. It will at length prevail over all the world, andbring under all the Kingdoms of the world to it ; but when it path done fo, then there fhall be a new world : Certainly there is a time that Chrift (hall have the Kingdoms ofthis world to reign over them in another manner than now He bath, and that is at the end of the world ; I will give you a Scripture or two a- bout that. Revel. i 1. is. Thefeventh Angelfounded,and there were great voices in Heaven, laying, The Kingdoms ofthin worldare be- come the Kingdoms ofour Lord,and ofHis Chri¡l; andHe fhall reign for ever and ever. That is, He (hail fubdue thekingdoms that were of this world, and then he (hall reign ; he (hall reign for ever and ever. Now they are the kingdoms ofthis world, but when he reigns it is in this manner that is here fpoken of, it is in another world, as appears in Heb. 2. 5. For unto the Angels bath He not put in fubjeFlion the World to come, whereofWefteak. Here the Apoffle (hews that Chrift is above theAngels, for he bath not put in fubjec` ion the world tocome unto the Angels ; therefore there is a world to come wherein Chrift fhall have a further dominion than yet he bath : and Adam was a typeof Jefus Chrift in this, Adam he had the command of this prefent world. Now in this world Chrift doth rule but in themideft of his Adverfaries, but there is a time coming that Chrift fhall have all under him ; as Adam in his innocency had the whol world under his feet : And Chrift doth promife unto his people in the 3. of Revel 2I .To him that overcometh,will Igrant tofit with me in my Throne, even as I alfo overcame and amfet down withmy Father in his Throne. Mark,it feems there is a Throneof Chrift yet that hath not been, for here's a promife that he will fet them upon bis Throne as he fits upon his Fathers Throne : Now Chrifl rules together with his Father, but faith he, ?IN that are my Saints, and my Subjects now, you (hall ht upon my Throne. I but youwill fay, That is in Fleaven ? (inHeaven indeed the Saints (ball reign.) Nay, It cannot be meant of a kingdom wherein the Saints thall
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