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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27411	Basileus basileon, or, The regality of Jesus Christ, King of Zion opened, vindicated, advanced in a sermon preached at St. Maries, Oxon, Jun. 26, 1659.	Bentall, Edward.	1660 (1660)	Wing B1907; ESTC R23683	20,855	48

power and the glory thine is the Kingdome and thou art exalted as head above all 2. There 's his Regnum donativum and herein may Christ say My Father is greater than I his dispensatory oeconomicall Kingdome which is not by nature but by donation and gift as v. 8. as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mediator This distinction our Divines generally maintain against the Socinians and others who hold that Christ hath but one Kingdome which he exerciseth as Mediator over his Church and in some respect over all things but they will not yeeld that Christ as God ruleth over all because they deny Christs Divinity This Mediatory Kingdome of Christ is considered in a twofold state 1. The first is Providentiall Christ being as Mediator delegated by his Father as Viceroy and chiefe Ruler over all persons and things with relation to his Church as Joseph by Pharoah was set over all the Land of Egypt So Mat. 28. 18. saith Christ All power is given to me in heaven and in earth Joh. 17. 2. Thou hast given him power over all flesh and Ephes 1. 20. Hee raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places far above all principalitie and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not only in this world but in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet quoad judiciariam potestatem though non quoad exercitium potestatis to which place is parallel that in Phil. 2. 9 10. Wherefore also God hath highly exalted him and given him a name above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven in earth and under the earth and that every tongue should confesse that Jesus Christ is Lord c. And therefore the Apostle stiles him the blessed and onely Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords 1 Tim. 6. 15. And in this sense the Apostle tels us that he must reign till he hath put down all rule all authority and power according to that Dan. 2. 34 35. and brought al in subjection to his Regall Scepter 2. The second state of the Kingdome of Christ as Mediatour is spiritual and this is that Soveraignty of Christ whereby as absolute Head and Monarch he rules and governes in his Churches over the hearts and consciences of men This the Apostle speaks of Ephes 1. 21. Hee gave him to be head over all things to his Church which is his body The power of Christ as King in this spiritual sense is exercised 1. Upon particular persons by his Word and Spirit effectually calling and converting them to himself Turning them from Acts 26. 18. Col. 1. 13. Luc 11. 22. darknesse to light and from the power of Satan to God delivering them from the power of darknesse and translating them into his owne Kingdom He is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that casts the strong man out of his palace and takes the Throne himself makes them a people of willingnesse in the day of his power willing to open to this King of glory and stoope to his Psal 110. 3. golden Scepter and to be regulated by his holy Laws and then guides and leads them Psal 73. 24. by his counsell in the waies of holynesse till he brings them to glory 2. In his Churches rightly constituted and governed according to the rule of his word here Christ is Lord and King the chief Shepheard and Bishop of souls 1 Pet. 2. 25. and the great shepheard of the sheep Heb. 13. 20. He walks as chief in the midst of the seven Golden Candlesticks And here wee may more truly say of him than the Jews Rev. 2. 1. of Caesar We have no King but Christ the Church is Christs family governed by his own Laws aliae sunt Leges Caesarum aliae Christi saith Hierome Christian Governours rule in the Church not over it or if in some sense over the Church yet not quatenus a Church but quatenus a Common-wealth as learned Salmasius distinguisheth vid. Gillesp Aar rod. p. 210. No power on earth may impose or continue any way of Worship upon the consciences of Gods people which Christ hath not prescribed Moses though the greatest Prophet and wisest Governour in Israel yet must keep himself close to the pattern shewed him on the Mount For the building and ordering the Tabernacle and the religious Rites of it and Solomon though wiser than all men is not left to his 1 King 4. 31. own wisdome in building the Temple and regulating the Worship of God there but he must have a pattern also 1 Chron. 28. 11 12 13. David the Man of God gave him a perfect pattern of all that he had by the Spirit And so hath Christ given in his Gospel to his Substitutes and under-Rulers at least in respect of Substantials and Essentials of Worship and Government a perfect pattern likewise which they must hold fast till he come Rev. 2. 24 25. Hee will lay upon his Church no other burthen than what they have already This Kingdome of Christ as spirituall is as yet shut up in a very narrow compasse Oh what a little part of the world doth Christ as a spirituall King reigne ovet according to his own Laws and Prescriptions 1. The Prince of the power of the air that rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience he as God of the world Lords and Kings it over Jews Turks and Heathens they are his vassals 2. The man of sinne hath exalted himselfe and he as God sitteth in the Temple of God and keeps Christ out of his regall Throne and how many followers hath he 3. And in that little spot of the world where this our King sits on his Throne and rules how few real Saints and subjects hath he and of them how few that can agree in one way of serving him But the time draws near when the Angel that hath the Key of the bottomlesse pit shall lay hold on the Dragon that old serpent which is the devill and sathan and bind him up that he shall deceive the nations no more c. Rev. 20. 2. that the ten horns shall hate the whore and burn her with fire Rev. 16. 16. that the water of the great River Euphrates shall be dried up that the way of the Kings of the East may be prepared Rev. 16. 12. that the Marriage of the Lamb shall come and his Wife shall make her self ready Rev. 19. 7. that the Gentiles shall slow in abundantly to Zion the city of the Lord the holy one of Israel and the nation and kingdome that will not serve her and her king shall perish yea those nations shall be utterly wasted Is 60. 12 14. That there shall bee a glorious resurrection of Churches from their dead condition in Idolatry Superstition and Apostacie and put into a right and holy frame when the temple of God shall be opened in heaven and there shall be seen