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A55488	Trin-unus-deus, or, The trinity and unity of God ... by Edm. Porter ...	Porter, Edmund, 1595-1670.	1657 (1657)	Wing P2986; ESTC R9344	109,855	214

evers are for continuance of this world and for that which is promised after the end of this world But then it must be inquired what is meant by Christs delivering up the Kingdom And in what sence it is said that Then shall the Son himself be subject To which inquiries the reader may find a full and I trust a satisfactory answer in my former book printed An. Dom. 1655. Lib. 2. c. 10. If he peruse the tenth chapter of the second book intituled The God-head of Iesus Christ which I shall not need to reherse in this place fully but only briefly to touch First Christs delivering up the Kingdom doth not signifie his relinquishing or resigning but only a presenting of his Kingdom that is his Church his Spouse his Members and Elect so saith the Expositer c Aug. de Trin. l. 2. c. 8. Non sic tradet ut adimat sibi i. e. he will not so deliver it up as if he had deprived himself of it Just so the Father is said to have delivered all things to the Son Luc. 10. 22. as he was man and the head of his Church yet for all this delivering the Fathers Dominion over all did not cease As when a Prince committeth a Province to the Goverment of one of his Captains the Prince doth not thereby lose his Soveraignity as the Father delivered his people to the Son to be governed so that the Son re-deliver the same people to the Father but in better condition then he found them for he will present them righteous holy pure just and free from all sin or matter of reproof Christ received them to govern and he governed them so well that in the end he will present them to the just God-head to be rewarded and crowned The Church on earth whilst it is Militant is said to be Black and comely Cant. 1. 5. viz. Black by reason of some pollutions of sin and Comely because it is adorned with many graces but when Christ shall present it to the Father at the end of the world it shall be delivered up Comely and not Black So that this delivering is only a presenting of his Church which is his Kingdom as good Students after their labours are presented to the University as Candidates to be rewarded with the honour of Degrees or as Queen Esther when she was purified was so Esther 2. presented to King Ahasuerus This is all that reasonably can be gathered from the phrase of Delivering up the Kingdom Secondly The Subjection of the Son is thus to be understood We know that Christ as he is man is called the head of the Church Ephes 5. 23. And the Church is called The body of Christ Col. 1. 18. of this great body all holy Christians with Christ himself are members and parts for the head is but a part of the whole body so that Christ the head and all his Saints and members are joyntly but one mystical body or Corporation and so but one Christ So we read We are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones Ephes 5. 30. And Ye are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. 28. from these and the like sayings the Ancient Fathers collected this true and excellent Doctrine That Christ the head together with all his members or Church are to be accounted but one Christ which they called Christum universum and Christum totum and Christum diffusum and Christum plenum and Plenitudinem Christi i. e. The universall whole diffused and the full Christ or fulness of Christ as I have formerly shewed at larg Now when the Apostle saith that Then shall the Son himself be subject 1 Cor. 15. 28. his meaning is only this that all the members of Christ and so the Whole Christ shall be at the resurrection fully and compleatly and perfectly subject and obediently plyable to the will of God for then all the holy members of Christ shall be delivered up or presented to God pure spotless quit and free from all the dominion of the World the flesh and the Devil which before during this mortal life had some power in them whilst they were militant and in war by the Sp●rit against the flesh but then Christ shall have put down all Rule all Authority and Power of sin so that they shall not be any longer militant but triumphant so that then and not till then the whole Christ that is not only himself as head but all his members with him shall be perfectly obedient and subject in all things to the God-head For before this delivering up or presenting this Kingdom or Church The whole Christ or whole body of Christ as it never yet was so it never will be compleatly and perfectly subjected to the will and rule of God because all the members of Christ will not till then be fully obedient for although Christ as he is man and as he is considered only by himself in his own particular humane person without relation to us was ever obedient and subject to the God-head yet this subjection of his particular self was only in capite i. e. a subjection of one part the head only but at the Resurrection when he shall present and deliver up this his Kingdom or Church then both head and members and so the whole Christ shall be perfectly and wholy subjected Finally although Christ himself as he is the Son of Man and in the form of a servant was ever subject yet the same Lord Jesus as he is the Son of God and in the form of God Philip. 2. 6. he thought it no robbery to be equal with God and therefore as he is God the Word or the Eternal Son of the Eternal Father in this consideration of his divine Person he never was nor ever shall be subject Indeed his Man-hood or Man-head is subject but in Christ there is another head and that is his God-head as we read 1. Cor. 11. 3. The head of Christ is God This head of Christ shall never bow it self to any but all knees shall bow to it Rom. 14. 11. Philip. 2. 10. for by this head he is said to be Over all God blessed for ever Rom. 9. 5. and by vertue of his head it it said Heb. 1. 6. 8. Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever and Let all the Angels of God worship him This I trust is enough for clearing this doubt SECT II. Of Christ's Kingdom over all the world and every Creature that it ceased not at his death That neither the Roman Consistorie nor Presbyterian vestry can be called Christs Throne How it is in this World and yet not of this World That the Policy of Christs Kingdom is altogether unlike and diverse from Worldly policies Mr. Mede's argument above mentioned is grounded upon another false supposition besided the former alledged viz. That Christs Kingdom is not yet commenced or begun or that Christ hath not yet reigned as a King either in Heaven or Earth nor

profaned Psal 89. 38. 39. 40. 42. 43. his Crown by casting it to the ground Thou hast broken down all his hedges and brought his strong holds to ruin Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries Thou hast turned the Edg of his Sword Thou hast made his glorie to cease c. Therefore this prophesied Kingdom can not be meant of the old David or any of his posterity but only of Christ in whom only this Davidical Kingdom still resteth and shall last on earth as long as the Sun endureth Of this Kingdom of Christ as he is the Son of David are those prophecies to be understood Ps 72. He shall come down like rain upon Psal 72. 6. the mowen grass or fleece of wool This is said of the secret birth of Christ of a Virgin without noyse or clamor He shall have dominion unto 8. the ends of the earth So had not any other of Davids posterity All Kings shall fall before 11. him and all Nations shall serve him This is not verified of any King but only Christ Prayer 15. shall be made ever to him or for him by his institution and dayly shall he be praised his name shall endure for ever as long as the Sun and men shall be blessed in him all Nations shall call him blessed any man that is but of meane progress in Religion may easily apprehend that these speeches can fit none other but Christ even Balaam an Heathen and a Magician Num. 24. 2 when the Spirit of God came upon him prophecied of a Star to come out of Jacob and a Scepter 17. out of Israel The Star signifieth the Heavenly or Divine part of Christ which should condescend to take flesh from Jacob. The Scepter signifieth the Kingdom of this Heavenly Star or Son of God so incarnate or as he is the Son of Jacob or Israel and so it must signifie the Kingdom of Christ Neither is the Gospel silent concerning the universal Kingdom of Christ in this world The Angel said He shall reigne over the house of Jacob Lu. 1. 33. for ever and of his Kingdom there shall be Regi De● Mcrituro Naz. Ambr. no end This was said of Jesus as he is the Son of Mary therefore of the Man Christ The Wise men of the East call him King and they offer Gold Frankincense and Myrrhe as to a King and to a God and to a Mortall as the Fathers generally agree The news of this Kingdom came to Rome in the days of Nero and is reported by a Suet. in Vospat c. 4. Ioseph de Bel. Iud. l. 7. Suetonius That by an old Prophecie it was foretold That about those times there should come out of Judaea some who should have dominion over the whole world This by flatterers was applied to Vespasian though he thought it to be meant of another and not of himself and therefore caused inquisition to be made among the Jews for the posterity of David to be put to death so did his Son Domitian and when two of them were brought before him of mean condition he asked them what estates they had they answered they had but b Iugera Euseb Hist l. 3. c. 20. Paul Oros l. 7. c. 7. 39 Acres of Land then he looked on their hands and perceived them to be hard and brawny with labour and so dismissed them as contemptible Herod beleeved the Prophecy of Christs Kingdom but mistook the manner of it and therefore slew the infants to prevent it What else can be the meaning of those sayings in St. Johns Gospel The word was made Ioh. 1. 14. flesh He came into the world and the world was made by him He came unto his own therefore 10. 11. Ioh. 3. 35. the world was his The Father hath given all things into his hand This is said of the Son now incarnate Thou hast given him power over all flesh This was said before his passion and that also Mat. 11. 27. All things are delivered unto me of my Father This power was given to him as man for by his God-head all was his before there is also mention of a Kingly prerogative annexed to his manhood whē it is said The Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive Mat. 9. 6 sins and this is so high that in the Apocalyps he is called The Prince of the Kings of the earth Rec. 1. 5 so the greatest Potentates on earth are but his subjects Neither did his Kingdom cease whilest he was dead and buried there was no Interstitium no Inter regnum or Interval of his Dominion for neither was the union of the God-head and man hood in him dissolved by death indeed the body and soul were parted each from the other but yet so that they did convene in Vno Tertio for they were both held in the hands of the Father or God head as when one draweth a sword out of the scabbard and holdeth the sword in one hand and the scabbard in the other Christ said at the point of his death Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit Lu. 23. 46. therefore neither could his soul be detained in Hell or wheresoever it was as it is said Thou wilt not leave my soul in H●ll nor Act. 2. 24. 27. could the grave retain his body so as to hinder its reuniting with the soul as it is said It was impossible that he should be holden of death we find also both in his life time and in the very lowest degree of his humiliation and death all Creatures acknowledging his Soveraignity He commanded the winds of the air He walked on the Sea the Fishes brought him tribute the Earth did quake The Sun was darkned in Heaven Angels ministred unto him Divels were dispossessed by him Graves gave up their dead bodies and Paradise it self as it seems sent back the souls of sleeping Saints The Kingdom of Christ in this world is acknowledged both by Romanists and also by those Protestants that are of the Presbyterian persuasion although I conceive they both err in the circumstance and manner thereof for the Romanists place the Throne of Christ in their Roman Consist●rie and in the Infallible Chayr but that Throne will not agree with the words of the Psalmist because all Kings and Nations have not fain before it and many who heretofore acknowledged it have since utterly rejected it so that the Roman Catholick or universal Throne hath not increased of late nor the universality thereof doth-last as long as the Sun or days of Heaven Neither will the Presbyterian Vestry be suteable with the Universal Throne of Christ although some have said that the Presbytery is his Throne and that it is to be set up by the sword but so is not the Sion of Christ the Prophet reproves the Jews for building up Sion in blood it may be reasonably suspected that all the former Mich. 3. 10. and present indeavours and