gta K I N G. that Care to fubordinate Beings, in forne refpeas better' and in others worfe than Man; is fully and abfolutely revived. Chrift is not a King upon Terms : if he were, he Ìnight ceafe to be a King. Nor is he afinite Monarch; becaufe the Covenant with him in the Trinity exifted from everlafting ; for THOU the ALEHIM, the Cove- nanters (lays Mofes in the xcth Pfalm), ART [in the fingular Number, to exprefs the Unity] from everlafting to everlafting. The very Nature of his kingly Authority, and the Enemies he had to combat with, prove, as fully as FaEts can prove, that 7efus Chrift muff be, not only more than Man, but alfo the omnipotent. GOD. Thus the Pfalmid,, calling upon this King, by the appropriating Title of My GOD, * fays, Thy Kingdom is an everlafting Kingdom (of all Ages, from Eternity to Eternity), and thy Dominion endureth throughout all Gene- rations. And, in another Place, where he fpeaks touch- ing this King-Redeemer, he expreffes himfelf; Thy Throne, O GOD, isfor ever and ever, the Scepter of thy Kingdom is a right Scepter. j-' So Daniel Bill more di- redly, if poffible, applies this Eternity of Dominionto Chrift, where, prophefying of the Fall of the great Empires of the World, he Pays, The GOD of Heaven (hallfet up a Kingdom, which(hall never be deftroyed; and this Kingdom and Dominion, and the Greatnefs of the Kingdom under the whole Heaven, (hall be given to the People of the Saints of the MOST HIGH, whofe Kingdom is an everlafting Kingdom, and all Dominions fhall ferve and obey him. § This is confeffedly the fpiritual King- dom of Jefus Cbriß, which literally prevailed against all temporal Dominion, and paífed the Bounds of the Roman Empire, in Spight ofeveryOppofition fromEarth and Hell. The Evangelift Luke, reciting the Words of the Angel p to the Virgin Mary, declares, that Pfalm cxlv. t. j- Pfalm xlv. 6. I Dan. ii. 44. Dan, vii. 27. Luke i. 33. CHRIST
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