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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

sooth them up in their vices 4. These great places and parts swell Non est carbo ita ignitus quin aqua adfusa extinguatur sicut contra non est carbo ita madidus quin prunarum acervo accendatur Peccandi libidine potentiae suae magnitudinem metiuntur Impune quidlibet facere id esse regem putant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vermis divitiarum superbia est August de Temp. them with pride and when Jesurum Deut. 32. 15. is waxen fat he kicketh and saies as Pharoah Psalm 49. 20. who is the Lord 2. Because if great ones are not exempted Reas 2. how much lesse those of a lower ranck 3. Because if such as these come in and submit to Christ they may easily prevaile Reas 3. with others The greatest difficultie is in Printing the first sheets of bookes Well then having thus made way for it now suffer the word of Exhortation which is not mine but the Lords Kisse the Sonne The Sonne who is that Jesus Christ the Sonne of God the Saviour of the world the King of Zion And what is it to Kiss him Ans 1. Kissing is an expression of homage and subjection So Gen. 41. 40. Saith Pharoah to Joseph All my people shall Kisse thee i. e. shall be ruled by the and when Samuel had anointed Saul he Kissed him 1 Sam. 10. 1. 2. 'T is an expression of Affection and Love Vnionem quandam spirituum animarum Ames prae se fert It was a custome among Christians in the primitive times to kisse one another at their Church meetings it was Symbolum pacis amoris In a word Just Mart. Joh. 1. 21. Heb. 5. 9. Psal 24 7 8 9 1 Cor. 16. 22. this to Kisse the Sonne is to receive embrace and submit to the Lord Jesus Christ to take him as our only Saviour and soveraigne Lord to love him and set him up in our hearts above all lusts and creatures and to be subject in all things to his holy lawes and spirituall government This is the great duty God requires of us all and there be two strong arguments to inforce it 1 The misery of all Rebells that being invited and commanded to partake of Christs benefits and to stoop to his Scepter persist in an obstinate refusall and stiffe opposition against him and his government Least be be angry and ye perish in the way of Opposition If his wrath be kindled but a little what then Oh that that no tongue can speak no pen can write no heart can conceive fully and to the life t is vailed because it cannot be exprest how much more if his wrath be broken forth into a flame Give me leave to set before you a few Scriptures which being well weighed may shake the hearts of Rebells and cause them to cast down their weapons and to kisse the Sonne Heb. 2. 1 2. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation 1 Pet. 4. 17. What will the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God two Questions not Answeres But positively set down 2 Thes 1. 7 8. Oh! read and tremble so Luk. 19. 27. Bring those mine enemies that would not have me to rule over them and slay them before my face It s farre more tollerable for Sodom c. The furnace shall be heat seven times hotter c. Therefore if any of us hitherto have carried it to Christ Gods anointed as those men of Belial how shall this man save us 1 Sam. 10. 27. and they despised him and brought him no presents and he hath yet held his peace Oh! let us bethink our selves in time and goe forth to meet him as Shimei did David 2. Sam. 19. 18 19. and * Videte magnum miraculum altus est Deus erigis te fugit a te inclinas te descendit ad te humilia de proximo respicit ut attollat superba de longe cognoscit ut deprimat Aug. in Psalm 138. 6. fall down before him and say as he Oh! let not my Lord the King impute iniquity unto me neither doe thou remember that which thy servant hath done perversly against thee for thy servant doth know that I have sinned and as Benhadads servants to Ahab 2 King 20. 23. with ropes about our heads for the King of Zion is a mercyfull King to those that will not too much too long abuse his mercy and love If now at last you will open your everlasting gates Mirum est quod homines in ferni Supplicia non considerant aut si considerent non formidant cum tamen damones credant contremiscant the King of glory will come in and pardon and love you and take you into his family c. But tremble to think what will be the issue if ye still will be resisting God Oh! let the sinners of Zion be afraid and let fearfulnesse surprize the hypocrites that complement with Christ and give him fair words but their hearts are not with him but against him however such may brave it out for a while yet the time will shortly come when the proudest opposers shall hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of of the mountaines and shall say to the rocks and mountaines fall on us and hide Non ille omisit providentiā aut amisit potentiā sed patientiam exercet suam dum poenitentiam expectat tuam Aug. Currat poenitentia ne praecurrat sententia Chrysolog Serm. 167. Mora tarditatem poenae gravitate compensat qui quo tardius venit severius percutit Greg. mor. us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe Rev. 6. 15 16. When this Lambe shall be turned into a Lyon Woe Woe everlastingly to all such as shall be found Rebells against him But in the next place 2. Blessed inexpressibly blessed are all they that trust in him who first kisse and then trust in him that 's Gods method elss our trust will be as the hypocrites trust a Spiders weeb Job 8. 14 15 He shall lean upon his house but it shall not stand ho shall hold it fast but it shall not endure and this is the second Motive to perswade all to come in and to kisse the Sonne Blessed are all they that trust in him 2. Blessedness shall be their portion they shall inherit a blessing 1 Pet. 3. they are blessed and they shall be blessed as Isaac said to Iacob Thy blessing is upon thy people Ps 3. 8. vid. Ezek. 34. 26. I will makethem and the places round about my hill a blessing there shall be showers of blessings That blessing which Moses from God gave Joseph Deut. 33. 13 c. shall be the blessing of every faithfull subject of this King of Zion who hath heartily devoted himself to his service The pretious things of Heaven and he pretious things of the * Qui dabit regnum nonne dabit viaticum August Quantumlibet sis