rich mercy of Christ that he would admit a Dog to his Kingdom O grace O mercy that Christ should black his fair hands in washing foul and defiled Dogs what a motion of free mercy was this that Christ should lay his fair spotless and chast love upon the black defiled and whorish souls O what a favour that Christ maketh the Leopard and Ethiopian white for Heaven Matth. 16.19 4. Now he discovered his bounty in giving the Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven to his Apostles and to their Successors this was a power which he had never communicated before it was a gift greater than the great Charter of Nature and the Donative of the whole Creation Indeed at first God gave unto man a dominion over the Fish of the Sea Gen. 1.26 and over the Fowl of the Air and over the Cattel and over the Earth but till now Heaven it self was never subordinate to humane Ministration herein was the acting of Christ's bounty he gives unto his Ministers the Keys of Heaven that Whatsoever they shall bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever they shall loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven 5. Now he discovered his patience in suffering all injuries from hence forward to the death of Jesus we must reckon his dayes like the Vigils or Eves of his Passion for now he began and often did ingeminate those sad predictions of the usage he should shortly find Matth. 16.21 that he should be rejected of the Elders and chief Priests and Scribes and suffer many things at Jerusalem and be killed and be raised up the third day and in the mean time he suffers both in word and deed they call him a Glutton a Drunkard a Deceiver a Sinner a Mad-Man a Samaritan and one possed with a Devil sometimes they take up stones to stone him and sometimes they lead him to an Hill thinking to throw him down headlong and all this he suffereth with patience yea with much patience he possesseth his soul 6. Now he discovered his glory in being transfigured on the Mount however the Person of Christ was usually depressed with poverty disgrace ignominy so that neither Jews nor Gentiles nor the Apostles themselves could at first discern the brightness of his Divinity yet now Christ gave an excellent probation of that great Glory which in due time must be revealed to all the Saints For taking with him Peter James and John Luke 9.28 29 30 31. he went up into the Mountain to pray and while he prayed he was transfigured before them and his face did shine like the Sun and his garments were white and glistering and there appeared talking with him Moses and Elias speaking of the decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem the embassie of Christs death was delivered in forms of Glory that so the excellency of the reward might be represented together with the sharpness of his sufferings Now if ever whiles he was upon Earth was the beauty of Christ seen at height Peter saw it and was so ravished at the sight that he talked he knew not what In respect of this glorious beauty his face is said to shine like the Sun I cannot think but his shine exceeded Sun and Moon and Stars but the Sun is the brightest thing we know and therefore it is spoken to our capacity Here 's one strain of exaltation though mostly all Christ's life was a state of humiliation it learns us to be content with yea to expect most humiliation little exaltation here we may have a taste but no continued comforts till we come to Heaven 7. Now he discovered his meekness in riding upon an Ass and a colt the foal of an Ass which was according to the Prophesie Behold thy King cometh unto thee meek Math. 21.5 and especially in rebuking the furious intemperate zeal of James and John who would fain have called for fire from Heaven to have consumed the Inhabitants of a little Village who refused to give Christ entertainment Ah saith Christ Luke 9.55 Ye know not of what spirits ye are of q. d. you must learn to distinguish the spirit of Christianity from the spirit of Elias why Christ came with a purpose to seek and to save mens lives Ver. 56. and not to destroy them it were rashness indeed to slay a man on some light displeasure whose redemption cost the effusion of the dearest heart-blood of the Son of God See here the meekness of Christ in opposition to the fury and anger of his own Disciples 8. Now he discovered his pity and compassion in weeping over Jerusalem Luke 19.41 42. And when he was come near he beheld the City and wept over it saying if thou hadst known even thou c. We read of Joseph Gen. 43.30 Gen. 45.1 that there was in him such a brotherly and natural compassion that his bowels yearned upon his Brethren and he could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him his love was like an hot Furnace now Jesus Christ hath the same heart and bowels of a man and I conceive as Christ was a man void of sin so the acts of natural vertues as to pity the afflicted to compassionate the distressed were stronger in him than possibly they could be in any other man sin blunteth natural faculties especially such as incline to laudable and good acts as to love and pity and compassionate the miserable in this respect Joseph was nothing to Christ when Christ saw Jerusalem he wept and wept his compassion strangled and enclosed within him it must needs break out it may be in some measure it eased Christ's mind that his bowels of mercy found a vent we read that pity kept within Gods bowels pains his very heart so that it must needs come out Mine heart is turned within me Hos 11.8 my repentings are kindled together 9. Now he discovered his humility in washing his Disciples feet Supper being ended Joh. 13.4 5. he laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself and poured water into a bason and began to wash his Disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded In this ceremony and in the discourses following he instructs them in the Doctrine of humility yea he imprints the lesson in lasting Characters by making it symbolical But why would he wash their feet rather than their hands or heads I answer it is probable on this account that he might have the opportunity of a more humble posture See how he layes every thing aside that he might serve his servants Heaven stoops to Earth on abiss calls one another the miseries of man which were next to infinite are excelled by a mercy equal to the immensity of God It is storied of one Guericus that upon the consideration of this humility of Christ in washing his Disciples feet he cried out Thou hast overcome me O Lord thou hast overcome my pride this example hath mastered
with man I know no reason why we should exclude civil peace out of Christ's wish many many a promise and precept we have in the Word scattered here and there to this purpose Lev. 26.6 Job 5.23.24 And I will give peace in the land and ye shall lye down and none shall make you afraid and thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field and thou shalt know that thy Tabernacle shall be in peace Ier. 29.7 Heb. 12.14 and seek the peace of the City and pray unto the Lord for it for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace And follow peace and holiness without which no man shall see God Orbem pecatum was ever a clause in the prayers of the primitive Church Rom. 12.13 that the world might be quiet I am sure it is Christ's command if it be possible as much as lyeth in you live peaceably with all men 3. It speaks there peace among themselves peace one with another such is or should be the condition of the Church Jerusalem is builded as a City that is compact together Psal 122.3 or unity within it self the Apostle dwells in this unity there is one body Eph. 4.4 5 6. and one Spirit and one hope and one Lord and one faith and one baptism and one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all The Church is a Court whose very pillars are peace the building of Christianity knows no other material to work upon if we look upon the Church it self there is one body if upon the very soul of it there is one Spirit if upon the endowment of it there is one hope if upon the head of it there is one Lord if upon the life of it there is one faith if upon the door of it there is one Baptism if upon the Father so it there is one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all Mark 9.50 It was sometimes Christ's commands unto his Apostles have salt in your selves and have peace one with another and as a blessed effect of this salutation for I look upon them as words full of vertue the Apostles and Churches of Christ in primitive times kept a most sweet harmony the multitude of them that believed were of one heart Acts. 4.32 and of one soul 4. It speaks peace within peace of conscience the Apostles had exceedingly fallen from Christ one betrayed him and another denyed him but all run away and left him alone in the midst of all his enemies and yet to them he speaks this salutation peace be unto you I know not a better ground for comfort of poor humbled sinners than this is it may be you have dealt very unkindly with Jesus Christ you have forsook him denyed him forsworn him O but consider all this hindred not Christ's apparition to his Apostles he comes unexpected and quiets their spirits he stayes not till they had sued to him for mercy or pardon but of his meer love and free grace he speaks kindly to them all he stills the waves and becalmes their troubled Spirits working in them according to his words peace be unto you O the sweet of peace it is all wishes in one this little word is a breviary of all that is good what can they more than to have peace with God and peace with men and peace within Luke 2.14 sure there is much in it because Christâ— is so much upon it at his birth the Angels sung Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace at his baptism the form of a dove lighted upon him and what meant this but peace in his life the sort of integrity was his court and what was here but peace near his death he gives peace as a legacy to his Church Iohn 14.27 peace I leave with you my peace I give you at his resurrection his first salutation to his Apostles is a wish of peace peace be unto you what can I say more to make us in love with peace Ioh. 17.2021 why all Christ did and all Christ suffered was for peace Luke 19.42 he prayed for it neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me that they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us And he wept for it if thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which do belong unto thy peace And he dyed to 〈…〉 but ye who sometimes were afar off are made nigh by the blood of Christ for he is our peace Eph. 2 13 14. Of this we need no other proof or sign but that of the Prophet Jonah when the sea wrought and was tempestuous what shall we do unto thee said the Mariners that the sea may be calm unto us and he said take me up and cast me into the sea so shall the sea be calm Jona 1.11 12. when that great enmity was betwixt God and us what shall I do said God that my justice may be satisfied and my wrath appeased and that there may be a calm why take me said Christ and cast me forth into the sea let all thy waves and thy billows go over me make me a peace offâ—ring and kill me that when I am dead there may be a calm and when I am risen I may proclame it saying peace be unto you You hear what he said 3. What he shewed this is the next passage he shewed unto them his hands and his side I look upon this as a true and real manifestation of his resurrection And we find that without this Thomas professed he would never have believed except I shall see in his hands the print of the nayls and put my finger into the print of the nayls John 20.25 and thrust my hand into his side I will not believe But a question or two is here raised as whether these wounds and prints of the nayls spear can possibly agree with a glorified body and why Christ retained those wounds and prints for the first whether those prints could agree with a glorified boâ—y some affirm it with much boldness and they say that Christ not only retained those prints whilest he abode upon earth but now that he is ascended into heaven he still retains them for my part I dare not go so far because Scripture is silent but the day is a coming when we shall see Christ face to face and then we shall know the truth of this only I conceive that Christ's body yet remaining on earth was not entred into that fulness of glory as it is now in heaven and therefore he might then retain some skars or blemishes to manifest the truth of his resurrection unto his Disciples which are not agreeable to his state in heaven But this I deliver not as matter of Faith reasons are produced both
and God be Omnipotent that he can do and can have whatsoever he pleases then Christ being one God with his Father he must needs prevail it is but ask and have let him ask what he will 5. That Christ is God's darling upon this very account because he intercedes for his People Therefore doth my Father love me because I lay down my life John 10.17 that I might take it again I lay it down by suffering and I take it again by rising ascending up into heaven and interceding there and therefore doth my Father love me O the love of God to Christ and of God in Christ to all his Saints God so loved the world that he gave his Son and Christ so loved the world that he gave himself and now again because Christ gave himself and his gift is as a sweet smelling savour unto God therefore God loves Christ O what a round of love is here God loves Christ and Christ loves us and the Father loves Christ again for loving of us there is not an act of Christ in his work of our redemption but the Father looks on it with love and liking Mat. 3.17 Isa 53.11 at his baptism lo a voice came from Heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased at his death He seeth of the travel of his soul and he is satisfied at his ascension he heareth of the intercessions of his soul and he is delighted Christ's intercessions are God's musick and therefore as sometimes Christ spoke to his Spouse Cant. 2.14 so God speaks to Christ Let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely Now Christ's intercessions must needs prevail when God love's Christ for his intercessions sake if before the world was made Prov. 8.29 30. the Son was his Fathers darling for it is said When he appointed the foundations of the earth then I was by him and as one brought up with him and I was daily his delight In the Original delights intimating that the eternal Son was variety of delights to his Father O then what delights what variety what infinite of delights hath God in Christ now interceding for us what a dear darling is Christ to God when not only he stands by him but he represents to him all the Elect from the beginning to the end of the World q. d See Father look on my breast read hear all the names of those thou hast given me as Adam and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob of the Twelve Tribes and of the Twelve Apostles of all the Martyrs Professors and Confessors of the Law and Gospel I pray for them I Pray not for the World but only for them for they are mine methinks I hear God answer What my Son and what the Son of my womb and what the Son of my vows hast thou begotten me thus many Sons and are all these mine why then ask what thou wilt and have what thou pleasest I am as strongly inclined and disposed to give thee grant as thou wouldst have it it is my joy my delight my pleasure to save these souls and surely the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in thy hands 6. That Christ is God's Commander I speak it with reverence as well as petitioner it is a phraze given to the servants of God command ye me and may we not give it to the Son of God Christians God is as ready to do us service as if we had him at command Isa 45.11 1 John 5.14 This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us and in this sense we may boldly say that God the Father is as ready to hear Jesus Christ as if he had him at command not that in deed and reality he commands God but that in deed and truth he commands all below God and he commands all in the stead of God And to this purpose is that voice of God I have set my King upon my holy hill of Zion Psalm 2.6 and why my King I dare not say he is God's King as if God were Christ's inferior or Christs subject God forbid why then my King I answer he is God's King because appointed by God or he is God's King John 5.22 because he rules in the stead of God The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all Judgment unto the Son God hath given away all his prerogatives unto Jesus Christ so that now the King of Saints can do what he will with God and with all the world only it follows Ask of me and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance as if the Father should have said I cannot deny thee and yet O my Son I would have thee ask do what thou wilt in Heaven Earth and Hell I have not the heart indeed I have not the power to deny thee any thing onely acknowledg this power to be originally in my self that all that honour the Son may honour the Father and all that honour the Father may honour the Son These are the terms betwixt God the Father and God the Son Oh then how powerfull and prevailing are Christs intercessions with his Father if he ask who hath power to command there is little question of prevailing in his suit We have heard in our days of a suit managed with a petition in one hand and a sword in the other and what the effect is all now can tell As a King who sues for peace backt with a potent Army able to win what he intreats for must needs treat more effectually so Christ sueing to his Father for his Saints with a power sufficient to obtain what he sues for he must needs effect what his desires may be it is well observed that Christ is first said to sit at God's right hand and then to intercede he treats the salvation of sinners as a mighty Prince treats the giving up of some Town which lyes seated under a Castle of his that commands the Town or he treats the salvation of sinners as a Commander treats the surrendring of a person already in his hands it is beyond God's power I speak iâ— with submission to deny his Son in any thing he asks Exod. 32.10 if the Lord sometimes cryed out to Moses like a man whose hands are held Let me alone how much more doth Christ's intercession bind God's hands and command all in Heaven Earth and Hell hence we say that God the Father hath divested himself of all his power and given the keys into Christ's own hands I am he that liveth and was dead Rev. 1.18 and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the keys of hell and death there is no man goes to Hell but he is lockt in by Jesus Christ and there is no man goes to Heaven but he is lockt in there by Jesus Christ he hath the keys of all men's eternities hanging
wayes by the antient writers and I refer you to them For the second why Christ retained these wounds and prints many reasons are rendred though I shall not close with all 1. Some think those skars or prints were as the trophies of his victory nothing is more delightfull to a lover than to bear about the wounds undergone for his beloved and nothing is more honourable for a Souldier than to shew his wounds undergone for his countries good what are they but as so many arguments of his valour and trophies of his victory this was Bedes sense Christ reserved his skars Beda in Luc. not from any impotency of curing them but to set out the glory and triumph of his victory over death and hell 2. Others think those skars or prints were for the setting out of Christs splendor and beauty as in cut or pinck garments the inward silks do appear more splended so in Christ's wounds there appears inwardly far more beauty Aquinas affirms that in the very place of the wounds there is a certain special comeliness in Christ And Augustine thinks Thom. 3. part q 53. a cert Aug. 22. de civit Dei that the very martyrs may retain some skarrs of their wounds in glory because there is no deformity but dignity in them and besides a certain beauty may shine in their bodies answerable to their vertues wherein they excelled 3. Others think that Christ retains those skars that he might by them interceed for us upon these very words we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous 1 John 2.2 they comment thus that God is appeased by Christ Thom. in 1. representing to him the prints and skars of his humane nature Christ's wounds are as so many open mouths Jona l. 2. which cry at the tribunal of his Father for mercy as Abels blood cryed for revenge 4 Others think that Christ retains those skars that thereby in the day of judgment he might confound the Jews and all the wicked in the world It is Augustine's judgment that as Christ shewed Thomas his hands and side because otherwise he would not believe so at the last day will he shew those wounds to all his enemies saying Come behold the man whom ye have crucified come see the prints of the nayls and the print of the spear Aug. l. 2. de symb 6.8 these be the hands and feet that you nailed and clenched to a piece of wood this is the side you pierced by you and for you was it opened but you would not enter in that ye might be saved And for this opinion they alledg this text Rev. 1.7 Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him even so Amen 5. All think that Christ retained his skarrs that he might convince the unbelieving Disciples of his resurrection hereby they are assured that Christ is raised and that the same body of Christ is raised that before was crucified and to this we cannot but subscribe the skars of his wounds were for the healing of their doubts Luke brings in Christ Aug. tract 121. in Johan Luke 24.39 he bespeaking his Disciples thus Behold my hands and my feet that 't is I my self handle me and see q. d. Come let your Fingers enter into these prints of the Nails and let your hands he thrust into the depths of this wound come and open these holes in my hands open this wound in my side I will not deny that to my Disciples for their faith which I denyed not to mine enemies in their rage open and feel till you come to the very bone that so both bones and wounds may witness that I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for ever more Rev. 1.18 Vse Amen What testimonies are here to convince the world of Christ's resurrection surely this argues the goodness of God that strives thus wonderfully with the weak saith of those that are his At first he appeared to one even to Mary Magdalen and after he appeared to two Mat 28.1 Mark 16.1 saith Matthew to Mary Magdalen and the other Mary or to three saith Mark to Mary Magdalen Mary the mother of James and Salome but of this apparition he is seen of ten at least and to confirm their faith not a considerable circumstance must be wanting here is time and place and persons to whom he appears and the manner how he appears he stands in the midst to be seen of all he speaks to them breaths on them eats with them and shews them his hands and his side O the wonderful condescentions of Christ what helps doth he continually afford to beget in us faith if we are ignorant he instructs us if we err he reduceth us if we sin he corrrects us if we stand he holds us up if we fall down he lifts us up again if we go he leads us if we come to him he is ready to recieve us there 's not a passage of Christ betwixt him and his but 't is an argument of love and a means either of begetting or of increasing Faith O then believe in Christ yea believe thy part in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ considering that these apparitions were not only for the Apostles sakes but if Christ be thine they were for thy sake that thou mightest believe and be saved But I shall have occasion to speak more of this in the Chapter following So much of the second apparition as it is recorded by the Evangelist John SECT VII Of Christ's Apparition to all his Apostles IMmediately after this apparition to his ten Apostles the next is to all his Apostles not one being absent and after eight days again his Disciples were within and Thomas with them then came Jesus the doors being shut and stood in the midst and said peace be unto you Joh. 20.26 27. Ver. 28 29. then saith he to Thomas reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithless but believing and Thomas answered and said unto him my Lord and my God Jesus saith unto him Thomas because thou hast seen me thou hast believed blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed In the whole story we have Christ's apparition and fruits of it 1. For the Apparition as in the former we have 1. The time 2. The place 3. The Persons to whom he appeared And 4. The manner how he appeared 1. For the time and after eight days it was on the same day seven night after the former apparitions which was the first day of the week and now because of his resurrection Rev. 1.10 and apparitions called the Lords day I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day this in my apprehension makes much for the honour of the Lord's day the first assembly of the Apostles
Christ 2 Cor. 11 2. And after this when Christ takes the bride home brings her into Heaven and leads her by the hand into his Fathers presence then is his last presentation then he presents her faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy The word signifies leaping springing exalting joy O what springing leaping exalting is in heaven when Christ takes the hand of his Bride and gives her into the hand of his Father q. d. O my Father see what a number I have brought home to thee thou knowest what I have done and what I have suffered and what offices I have gone through to bring these hither and now my Mediatourship is done I resign all my charge to thee again see what a goodly Troop what a noble Army I have brought thee home why all these are mine and all mine are thine and all thine are mine Joh. 17.10 12. and I am glorified in them all those that thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost see here is Adam and Abel and Noah and Sem and every Saint from the beginning to the end of the World the Nuptial between them and me is solemnized and whither should I lead them but to my Father's house and into my Father's presence I have already pronounced them blessed and the glory which thou gavest me I have given them Joh. 17.22.23 that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one Here take them from mine hands now give them a welcome into glory and let them know that thou hast loved them as thou hast loved me 2. He presents all his Commissions to his Father as he is a Mediatour at least by Destination from all Eternity Eph. 1.4 were not the Saints chosen in Christ before the foundation of the World then was he a Mediatour in the business of Election and then was he Predestinated to be a Mediatour of Reconciliation Prov. 8.23 I was set up from Everlasting i.e. I was appointed and designed to be a Mediatour from all Eternity Howsoever he was a Mediatour virtually and inchoatively from the Fall of Adam then did he undertake that great Negotiation of reconciling God to man and man to God and actually he was a Mediatour after his Incarnation for then was he manifested in the flesh then was he manifested to be what before he was then did he act that part visibly upon earth which before he had acted secretly and invisibly in heaven then he entred upon the work of his active and passive obedience then he discharged his Prophetical and Priestly office here on Earth which having done then he entred upon his Kingly Administration in Heaven Now as to this work he was called by God him hath God the Father sealed John 6.27 it pleased the Father by him to reconcile all things to himself Colos 1.19 And as to these offices severally he had Commission from God the Lord hath annoynted me to Preach good tydings unto the meek and the Lord hath sworn Isa 61.1 Psal 110.4 Psal 110.1 and will not repent thou art a Priest for ever and the Lord said unto my Lord sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool So now he comes with all his Commissions in his hand and he delivers them all up unto his Father again In this case it is with Christ as with some General whom the King sends forth with Regal Authority to the War who having subdued the Enemy he returns in Triumph and all being finished he makes a surrender of his place thus Christ having discharged all his offices imposed on him now the work is finished he leaves his function by delivering up his Commissions to his Father Rev. 21.23 In Heaven there is no need of Sun or Moon that is as some interpret there is no need of Preaching or Prophesying of the Word or Sacraments for the Lamb is the light thereof Christ is the only means of all the communication that the Elect there shall have and as for his Regal Office 1 Cor. 15.24 the Apostle is express then shall he deliver up the Kingdom to God even the Father Only here is the question how is Christ said to resign his Kingdom to God the Father Luk. 1.33 Heb. 1.8 for saith not the Scripture that Christ's Kingdom shall have no end and that Christ's Throne is for ever and ever for answer I see no contradiction but that Christ may both resign his Kingdom and yet reserve it See a like case Mat. 28.18 All Power saith Christ in heaven and earth is given to me of my Father shall we say now that the Father himself was quite stript of it no but as the Kingdom which the Father gave the Son is nevertheless called the Father's Kingdom or the Kingdom of God so Christ shall return it yet retain it also Two things we say are contained in the Term of Reign sci Dominion and Execution to wear the Crown and to bear the Scepter now Christ in the former sense shall reign for ever the honour of dominion and of wearing the Crown he shall never resign up to his Father for his Fathers Throne disturbs not his there are both their Thrones at once Rev. 7.11 but the functions of a King to sit in Judgment to reward deservers to punish evil-doers to rescue the oppressed to fight with the enemy Christ in this sense shall cease to reign and shall deliver up the Kingdom to his Father More particularly Christ is said to deliver up the Kingdom in three respects 1. Because he ceaseth to execute that Authority which nevertheless he hath as a Judge that goeth from the Bench is a Judge still although he giveth no judgment but imployeth his time about other occasions so Christ is said to resign his place not that his Authority is subject to Diminution but in that he makes no shew for when his enemies are all put under there is no need that any more blows should proceed from his Kingly power 1. Because the manner of his Kingdom after the judgment day shall be wholly changed he shall not Reign in the same fashion that he did before there 's no need in heaven of good Laws to keep men from starting into wickedness the orders of this life are changed into a new kind of Government and in that respect he is said to give over the Kingdome 3. Because he ceaseth to increase his Dominion In this World Christ was still gaining more souls to his Kingdom by the Preaching of his Word and so he spread his dominion further and further but when the Lord shall have made up the number of his Servants to his mind then he will end the World and give up the Kingdom i.e. he will cease to enlarge his confines any more he will be content with the number of his Subjects that he hath already Here is