70 Infinite Blefednefe in the k;ndovne of Heaven in 7.Dan: 24. and there calls it the kingdome of the Sainte that shall prevaile in the world: Certainely there is' fifth a kingdome of Chrift as will prevaile in the World let men òp- pole it what they can. T he Kings of the earth theyrage, acrd the Heathens they imagine but vaine things, for the Lord mill fet Kr ti ing upon his holy hill, and the Saints that are in this king- dome of Chrill they shall prevaile in the world at daft, This kingdome must certainely gó on ; My brethren we read in Scripture of the good tydings of the kingdome : there few things that I have fpoken of are fotne of the good tydings of the kingdome, and in the i. Atts 30. whenChrifl -wa §. ttfen againe, we finde that the great things that aria did,it was to tell his Disciples of the good things of this kingdome of Hea- ven, you know Chrift after his refurre' &ion did continue- with his Difciples forty dayes : Now you will fay; What did Chrifl do in thole forty dayes ? we read of many chugs that Chrift did before his death, but what have we of what he did in thole forty dayes ? the Scripture tells you that he did (peak to them about the kingdome of Heaven,ChriP then did difcourfe about this point that I am now fpeaking of, telling of them what a blefled and glorious kingdome of the Mef{ìas they were to come to, and though they were like to be poore in the world and defpifed, and be as nobody, yet they were members of that kingdome, and had the priviledges of it , and Chrift would make them inftrumentall for the furtherance of that glorious kingdome,and fo told them what belongs to the king- dome, the ordinances of the kingdome, the lawes of it, and the priviledges of it, and therefore we find it that the Dif- ciples before the refurrecîion of Chia, and the fhedding abroad of the Spirit, they dream'd of a meere earthly kingdome, when wilt thou reflore the kingdome to Ifracl, but when Chrift had told them of this kingdome , and the Spirit was flied abroad in their hearts, they never minded an earthly kingdome more : No, they had done with that,novv they came to underftand what was the meaning of the king- dome of the Med iiah that Chrift did preach unto them in the forty dayes that he was with them before his Afcention. Now
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