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A90290 A sermon preached to the Parliament, Octob. 13. 1652. A day of solemne humiliation. Concerning the kingdome of Christ, and the power of the civile magistrate about the things of the worship of God. / By John Owen. Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1652 (1652) Wing O806; Thomason E678_28; ESTC R203106 28,726 56

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Nations whatever which in their present state and Government have given their power to the Dragon and the Beast to oppose the Lord Christ withall shall be shaken broken translated and turned off their old foundations and constitutions into which the Antichristian interest hath been woven for a long season God will shake the Heavens and the Earth of the Nations round about untill all the Babylonish rubbish all their originall ingagements to the man of sinne be taken away This I have fully demonstrated elsewhere All those great Warres which you have foretold wherein the Saints of God shall be eminently ingaged are upon this account 3. That the civill powers of the World after fearfull shakings and desolations shall be disposed of into an usefull subserviency to the Interest Power and Kingdome of Iesus Christ hence they are said to be his Kingdoms Rev. 11. 15. That is to be disposed of for the behoofe of his interest rule and Dominion of this you have plentifull promises Isai 60. and elsewhere when the nations are broken in opposition to Syon their gain must be consecrated to the Lord and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth Mich. 4. 15. Even Iudges and Rulers as such must Kisse the Sonne and own his Scepter and advance his waies some think if you were well setled you ought not in any thing as Rulers of the Nations to put forth your power for the interest of Christ the good Lord keep your hearts from that apprehension Have you ever in your Affaires received any encouragement from the promises of God have you in times of greatest distresse been refreshed with the testimony of a good conscience that in Godly simplicity you have sought the advancement of the Lord Christ doe you believe that he ever owned the cause as the head of his Church Doe not now professe you have nothing to doe with him had he so professed of you and your affaires what had been your portion long since 4. Look what Kingdome soever the Lord Christ will advance in the World and exercise amongst his holy Ones the beginning of it must be with the Iewes they are to be caput Imperii the head and seat of this Empire must be amongst them these are the Saints of the most High mentioned by Daniell and therefore in that part of his Prophesy which he wrote in the Chaldean Tongue then commonly known and spoken in the East being the language of the Babylonish Empire he speaketh of them obscurely and under borrowed expressions but coming to those visions which he wrote in Hebrew for the sole use of the Church he is much more expresse concerning the people of whom he spake The Rod of Christs strength goes out of Syon and thence he proceeds to rule those that were his enemies Psal. 110. 2. All the promises of the glorious Kingdome of Christ are to be accomplished in the gathering of the Gentiles with the glory of the Jewes The Redeemer comes to Syon and to them that turne from transgression that great transgression of unbeliefe in Iacob Isai. 59. 20. Then shall the Lord rise upon them and his glory shall be seen upon them the Gentiles shall come to their light and Kings to the brightnesse of their rising Isai 60. 2 3. I dare say there is not any promise anywhere of raising up a Kingdome unto the Lord Christ in this World but it is either expressed or clearely intimated that the beginning of it must be with the Iews and that in contradistinction to the Nations so eminently in that glorious description of it Mich. 4. 7 8. I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast a farre off a strong Nation and the Lord shall reigne over them in Mount Syon from hence forth even for ever and thou O Tower of the flock the strong hold of the Daughter of Syon unto thee shall it come even the first Dominion the Kingdome shall come to the Daughter of Ierusalem When the great hunter Nimrod set up a Kingdome the beginning of it was Babell Gen. 10. 10. when the great Shepheard sets up his Kingdome the beginning of it shall be Syon so farther it is at large expressed Mich. 5. 7 8. Nothing is more cleare to any who being not carryed away with weake carnall apprehensions of things present have once seriously weighed the promises of God to this purpose what the Lord Christ will doe with them and by them is not so cleare this is certain that their returne shall be marvelous glorious as life from the dead When then Euphrates shall be dryed up Turkish power and Popish Idolatry be taken out of the world and these Kings of the East are come when the seed of Abraham being multiplied like the starres of Heaven and the sands of the Sea shore shall possesse the gates of their enemies and shall have peace in their borders we may lift up our heads towards the fulnesse of our redemption but whilest these things are or may be for any thing we know a farre off to dream of setting up an outward glorious visible kingdome of Christ which he must beare rule in and over the world be it in Germany or in England is but an ungrounded presumption The Jewes not called Antichrist not destroyed the Nations of the World generally wrapt up in Idolatry and false-worship little dreaming of their deliverance wil the Lord Christ leave the world in this state set up his Kingdome here on a mole-hil 5. This is a perpetuall Antithesis and opposition that is put between the Kingdoms of the World and the Kingdome of Christ that they rise out of the strivings of the winds upon the Sea he comes with the clouds of Heaven They are brought in by commotions tumults warres desolations and so shall all the shakings of the Nations be to punish them for their old opposition and to translate them into a subserviency to his interest The comming in of the kingdome of Christ shall not be by the Arme of flesh nor shall it be the product of the strifes and contests of men which are in the world it is not to be done by might or power but by the spirit of the Lord of Hosts 2. Zech. 4. 6. great Warres desolations alterations shall precede it but it is not the sonnes of men that by outward force shall build the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven adorned as a Bride from Christ fitted and prepared by himselfe certainly the strivings of men about this businesse shall have no influence into it It shall be by the glorious manifestation of his own power and that by his spirit subduing the soules of men unto it not by the sword of man setting up a few to rule over others Hence it is every where called a creating of a new heaven and a new earth Isa 65. 17. a work doublesse to difficult for the wormes of the earth to undertake There is nothing more opposite to the spirit of the