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A29196	Saintship no ground of soveraignty, or, A treatise tending to prove, that the saints, barely considered as such, ought not to govern by Edw. Bagshaw ...	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1660 (1660)	Wing B422; ESTC R10641	20,947	66

more to the same purpose how any can reconcile to an Affecting of Temporall Greatnesse let them resolve who love a Secure an Easie a Specious a Prosperous Religion such an one as Christ never came to teach nor any of his Followers died to establish Obj. It is very true what some with a little too much gust and relish of worldly-mindedness alledge That every true Christian is heir of a Kingdom and ought to live in expectation of such Glory and Greatness as whatever the world hath can but imperfectly shadow out With this our Saviour doth buoy up and revive the sinking spirits of his Disciples Be of good comfort saith he for it is your Fathers good pleasure to give you a Kingdom It is this we pray for this we are to be in a readiness for daily Answ But yet it is as true too that so long as we live here this is a Kingdom in expectation onely Flesh nor Blood neither shall nor can inherit it As we must first put off Mortality before we can put on Eternal Life so we must put off earth and earthly-mindedness before we can expect any share in that blessed Inheritance There are amongst many other two very remarkable places to clear this The one is our Saviours answer to Peter upon his Discourse with the young man For our Saviour having pronounced so severe and yet so peremptory a doom against rich men as that a rich man could scarcely be saved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he repeats it again and makes it to be altogether as great a Moral Impossibility for a man that is clogged with Wealth and loaded with worldly Cares to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the narrowed pressed and streightned way as it would be a natural impossibility for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle Upon this we finde the Disciples were exceedingly amazed not onely as missing of their hopes but likewise as being conscious to themselves that though they were not yet they did all desire to be rich whereupon Peter in the name of the rest replies Behold we have left all and followed thee what shall we have therefore As if he had said Shall we venture to loose all and yet be so great losers by the bargain as to be altogether unprovided of a recompence our Saviour therefore to quit them and to take them off from such sensual desires which he saw possessed them Verily saith he ye that have followed me in the regeneration when the Son of man sits upon his Throne of Glory shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel In which words our Saviour doth promise them a great and a glorious reward viz. to be Kings and Judges with himself but yet defers the fruition of it until the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. The restauration of all things when neither Mortality nor Misery shall be any more but every thing shall be restored unto that Primitive Integrity and Lustre wherein they were at first created The other place which manifests the nature of Christs Kingdom Matth. 20.20 c. is that Answer which our Saviour returned to the Mother of Zebedees Children who it seems mistaking the true notion of it and fixing her thoughts upon an earthly Empire petitioned our Saviour for her two sons That the one might sit at his right hand and the other at his left when he came into his Kingdom i. when he had taken possession of the Throne and was invested with the Realm of Judea she humbly begged that then he would be pleased to look favorably upon her two sons to make them the Grandees and Minions of his Court that they under him might enjoy the greatest Power and Priviledges But our Saviour to take them off from such haughty Aims presently puts them in minde of Suffering v. 23. as a thing much more suited to a Christians complexion and lest the other Disciples should be infected with the same desires he doth for ever strive to suppress them as passions much more fit for Heathen then Christian tempers Ye know saith he that the Princes of the Gentiles do exercise dominion over them and those that are great do exercise authority upon them But it shall not be so amongst you As if he had said The Heathen indeed who have no other hope do place all their Heaven upon Earth they make Fame their Immortality and Power their Paradise and therefore never rest satisfied until they can exercise an absolute and an Arbitrary Dominion over their enslaved Subjects But you who are my Disciples and called by my Name who have a certainty of future Enjoyments unto whom a Kingdom of a clean different nature is reserved you ought not to be like them but rather strive in humility to excell each other Wherein our Saviour clearly intimates that it doth so little become a Saint to rule that he is certainly not a Saint who doth ambition it For how can he rationally expect a Kingdom hereafter who hath outed himself of his Plea by putting in for a Kingdom here which is nothing else but to antedate the effect of Gods promise or rather with Dives to receive our good things in this life and to take up with Temporal Joys when we should patiently have waited for Eternal Thirdly This appears farther from the manner how Christian Religion was propagated in the World which as it is a Religion that doth most precisely forbid compulsion and violence so it was not planted by it Our Saviour himself that taught it was as a Lamb that opened not his mouth but turned his cheek to the smiter and his back to the rod of the wicked The Apostles his followers were accounted the scum and off-scouring of the world i. the vilest of men and thereupon were disgraced persecuted tormented And all this they suffered without the return so much as of contumelious Language how much less do we finde them telling the world that they ought to bear Dominion over them Yet by these Arts alone they did at first Preach and afterwards promote the Gospel to the conversion of thousands And this by the way without any further Argument will serve to evidence the Divine Original of Christianity in that notwithstanding all these disadvantages the least of which in all humane probality was enough to have stifled and suppressed it in the Womb yet in spite of all it took root and prospered which could not possibly have come to pass without the conduct and assistance of an Almighty Power But had our Saviour sent a Religion into the World which would have excited mens ambition and fired our Zeal to the ruine and extirpation of it's Opposers Quid hoc eximium What excellence should there have been in Christian Religion more then in other Religions for do not even the Publicans the same Is not this the common method of all Political Combinations rather then Religions in the World to rise by the ruine