what meow by ICingd9me of Heaven, 59 he glorified among Saints and Angelis in Heaven, but fuch as it may ;be faid of them, That the kingdome of Heaved is,vitl- in them. You will fay what's that : --- Why that I furthçr open in coming to the maine promue, theirs is the kingdome of Hea- ven. Now the great thing that we are to doe, it is in thefe two .particulars. Firf} , To open to you what is the meaning of this ; what ,loth Chrift mean by the kingdome of Heaven. - And.then fecondly; To apply the kingdome of Heaven to fuch as are poore in fpirit: -- I shall not fpeake of it per- baps ( as fome of you may thinke ) to open the Glory of Gocl in the Generall, but onely fo farre as it is applicable to the poore iii fpirit : Chrift meanes fome fpeciall thing here, that is more peculiarly applicable to the poore in fpirit, viz. three forts of poore who are to have the treafury of Comfort in the kingdome of Heaven, which will appeare farther, botit in the opening of the kingdome of Heaven what it is, and the i the application of it unto thefe three forts of poore people. For the firf 'cthen , The kingdome of Heaven. By the kingdome of Heaven is undertlood not firfily the ,Glory of the Saints that they 1]hall have to all eternity;But the ,flare of die Meifas,that's the king of Heaven The fte,I fay, of the Meifias after his Coming into the world , and all the good things that he brings with him ;bat's the kingdome of Heavew.which is here meant : There s the kingdome of. Gods _power whereby he rules over the world ; And then there's the ikingdome that he hath given to his Son, the Mediator; It's the fecond kingdome that's here meant. When:God had made this world, he himfelf reinn'd over it,and was the King of it ; But the world that he made was fpoild with fin, and fo God could not have that Glory from the world that he made it for ; 'Therefore the Lord he was pleated to ereu anew world, anotherfpiritual heavenly world, to Clorihe hinifelfe iii -in another Danner, more fpirituall and heavenly then in the for- mer world, and.he makes his on to be the King of that fpti- tua11 world, -hat new world which the Scripture fpeaks Q£ I z when
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