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A66351	The kingdom of God in power a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir John Shorter, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London, at Grocers-Hall, November the 20th, 1687 / by Daniel Williams ...	Williams, Daniel, 1643?-1716.	1688 (1688)	Wing W2652; ESTC R1845	22,380	40

43. The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you that is the Gospel But when I use the word Gospel I do not mean the Gospel in opposition to the Mosaical dispensation as it is oft used The Gospel Administration in this sense is often called in the Evangelists the Kingdom of Heaven as being a fairer more full and powerful Edition of the Institutes of this Kingdom than was published before tho yet the Kingdom commenced and had its essential Laws and Rules long before Christ's coming But I mean the Gospel as a Law of Grace in opposition to the Law of Works delivered to man in his Innocent State. To direct your conceptions in this important Truth You must consider 1. That God had and exercised a Supreme Authority over men as he was their Creator He enacted Laws for our observance well becoming his Nature to injoin and our Condition to obey For some time we continued Loyal in Adam our common Head but by his fall Mankind became rebellious against God and by the Penal Sanction of the law of Works and the Rule fixed for man's propagating his Condition with his Nature we lost our original power to obey and forfeited our right to all that Good which was promised to perfect obedience Yea are exposed to the utmost misery in that Curse denounced against the least sin This is the condition of all men as related to God as our Creator though he has lost nothing of his right to command or punish his Rebellious Creatures How justly might our injured Lord have confined our state to these methods Who might complain if God had finally executed that judgment which past on all men unto condemnation The irremediable state of Devils on their Rebellion may awaken Mankind to ascribe all new overtures for happiness to the riches of the Grace of God. Yea every part of that Curse which exerts its self by any degree of misery in Soul or Body should convince us that it 's of meer mercy we are not bound in chains to the judgment of the great day 2. Immediately after the fall God erected a new Kingdom in and by Christ as Redeemer In the Curse denounced against the Serpent he opened a door of Grace to sinful Man. He treats with us in order to our recovery and resolved eventually to save the Elect yet this was to be in no other way but by becoming subject to the Rules of this new Kingdom This Kingdom is owing to Christ as the procuring Cause and the management thereof was deputed to him He managed it in a variety of successive administration as Lawgiver he enacted Terms of life Rules of practice Directions for Worship and Discipline among his Subjects He published blessed Promises and denounced Threats against the unperswadeable No man was ever saved but by the Rules of this New Kingdom and owes it to the Grace and Merits of Christ though every dispensation did not give equal notices of Him or that explicite knowledge of God-man Redeemer notwithstanding that Sacrifices pointed to Him and sundry Prophetick Revelations foretold Him. 3. All Mankind are under all the Laws of this Kingdom as far as they can attain to the knowledg of them They are obliged to obey the terms of Life which are injoined by the Redeemer in their respective Age and Place Life is offer'd to them and they are saveable on those terms Sinners now act a new Rebellion as well as bind the first Curse on themselves when they refuse obedience to the Remedial Law. Yea they aggravate their ruine by their wilful obstinacy which is a great part of the undoing-impotency of Mankind Awful is that complaint of Christ wherein he leaves the blood of lost man on their own heads Ye will not come to me that ye may have life Refusers of Christ add to their Rebellion against the Creator most notorious disloyalty against the Redeemer who hath an additional claim to dominion over us For We are bought with a price and therefore should glorify him with our bodies and our souls which are his And he had a respect to this new acquired Authority in his death for to this end he died and rose again that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living All of us are further engaged to observe all the Laws of his House the Rules of Worship and Practice yea every Institution of his There is an amazing Sovereignty in the different promulgation of these to the World but to give my sense thereof would exceed the limits of one Discourse II. The Kingdom of God denotes the graces and actings which qualify men as Subjects of God's Kingdom and express God's Authority over them and their Loyalty to him Thus you must understand that Scripture The Kingdom of God is not in meat and drink but in righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost q. d. The dominoin of God over Christians and their loyal state of obedience to God lieth not in your poor differences about meat or such low matters Therefore judg not others who may differ from you nor be you satisfied with your own usages in these less momentous things as an evidence of your Christian state God's Kingdom is in far higher matters even in righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost How can any man after so plain a signification of the Divine Will place all his Religion in trifles or sacrifice the undoubted Concernments of God's Kingdom to disputable things of far less moment Peace alone by this Text is more valuable than all the things for which some have long divided the Church This is the Kingdom of God as erected in the heart and is inclusive of whatever denotes sincere subjection to Christ. To this belongs every Grace which is essential to a real Christian and all those acts which are necessary to express the prevalency of such Graces over all opposite Vices and Defects This Kingdom is advanced to the degrees of mens improvement in the Divine Life and the Dominion of God over their Designs and Actings III. The Kingdom of God is used for all true Believers who are the real Subjects that make up this Kingdom These are they in whom the former Graces abide and do acknowledg the Authority of the Lord Redeemer They are all translated into the Kingdom of Christ. By their consent to the terms of the Gospel they who were Aliens are Naturalized and the Outlawry is reversed which stood against them as Rebellious Subjects This Kingdom is of the same extent with the Church Mystical and as these Subjects multiply it is enlarged It 's true that all who credibly profess subjection to Christ are Parts of this Kingdom as it 's visible and external they are Subjects in the judgment of Charity and as to external Privileges This Christ asserts in that Parable The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a Net cast into the Sea and gather'd of every kind which when it was