66 Infinité BletednejJe in the kingdome of Heaven tibiae, the' klogdó ne of the Mef iah, there he comes to have other ptiviledges, fo that when a beleever offends he loth not goe to anfver in that Court of his, (to wit) the kingdome of his power,but he is to anf\ver before the Cóttrt of ,fetus Chri(î and Chrift is to be the Judge, and Chrift he is to deale with them in that adminiftration ofhis that he bath received from the Father, and fo comes a beleever to Band with comfort be- fore (sod notwithstanding all his offences and weakneffes, for the tranfaaiot5 is between God and him within this kingdome and not without it = Oh this is a great comfórt for one that is Poore in fpirit : BlefJed áre the poor :n Jirit for theirs is the l rig_ dome ofHeaven : The king dome of Heaven,of the Gofpel it is theirs, and this isthe blel° dneíie that they have by this king- dome of the Gofpel, that (I fay) all the rraniadiohs between: God and them are in this kingdome: So likewife all Gods dea. lings with them every way it is through a Mefliah, and all that they tender up to God it is through the Mefliah, fo as indeed theyhave nothing (as I may fo fpeak) to do in their reference to God, but onely through this their King,their King Both un- dertake all bufineffes between God and them': thou that art brought to this kingdome, he that is thy King, the Lord Jefus Chrift, God and man, hark undertaken all things that concern thee in thy reference to f od': Therefore blefftd art thou for thine is the kingdome of heaven. So that all the. mercies that come from God;they came from Cod through Chrift tothee, by the meaues of this King he brings them, and it through his right that thou haft them;As now,when there is any thing to do between two kingdomes, Why the tranfaetions are between the two Kings, every pri -- vare man cloth 'n6f'f dale in tranfieting of bufinetfe between kingdomes : So riaixy l'ay, there are as it were two kingdomes, the kingdome of Gód as he is a Creator,and then the kingdom. of -the Meiliáh,now all thdfe things that we are to receive from. the kingdome ofGods power as Creator, Jefus Chrift he dears With God for them, and we come to recetve'them alt thróugh the right of this our Kings all Mercy, and' if there be any af- fliOtions tomes, if we have offended the`father, and fin againtt the
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