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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73533	Jesus Nazarenus, Rex Judaeorum. Or, a tract concerning the inscription fastned by Pilates command	Bourchier, John, Sir, d. 1660.	1637 (1637)	STC 3412.3; ESTC S124700	38,853	214

he cryes Consummatum est It is finished Iohn 19.30 In his whole life his face inclined towards the Sunne For hee might truely say in the words of the Prophet David I have alwayes set thy Law before my face Psalm 119. And as the face of the Cherubine looked alwayes towards the Mercy-seate so the face of this Marygold was alwayes towards the Sun of Gods Law He was so addicted thereunto that it was his meate to doe the Will of him that sent him and to finish his Worke. Iohn 4.34 John 4.34 The Lord calls him His righteous Servant who shall justifie many by his Righteousnesse Esay 53.11 His righteous Servant There is the exactnesse of his Obedience Who shall justifie many by his Righteousnesse there 's the Superrogation of his Merits Thus is Christ compared to the Marygold and may bee justly tearmed Nazarenus The Flower of Obedience Here then have I let you see a Garden of fragrant Flowers to the sight beautifull to the smell odoriferous What remaines but that we enter into this Garden and gather of these Flowers from the Crosse of our Saviour and making Garlands thereof weare them upon our Heads and Poses to carry in the bosome of our Hearts O thou sweet Nazarenus draw us by thy odoriferous sent after thee yea unto thee Lead us into thy Garden and comfort us with the fragrancy of thy Celestiall Flowers Nay make us O blessed Nazarenus spirituall Gardens unto thy selfe Set in our Hearts some slippes of these Flowers purge us from the weeds of vice and insteed thereof make Humility to flourish in our cogitations Innocency in our conversations Temperance in our appetites Charity in our affections and Obedience in all our actions to the Salvation of our Soules the good example of our Brethren To the glory and praise of thee our blessed Saviour who wert art and ever shalt be Iesus of Nazareth And so I come to the last word of Pilates Inscription King of the Iewes King of the Iewes THese were the last words of Pilates Inscription fastened upon the Crosse whereon our Saviour Christ was crucified which is the third pretended Cause of his Crucifying Little thought Pilate that Christ was truely King of the Iewes when he set up this Title For he received this Name not by Pilates Inscription onely but by his Fathers Ordination For hee is our Great King who ruleth all things who hath subdued all our Enemies tryumphing on his Crosse over the World the Flesh and the Devill He is called The King of the Iewes not carnally but spiritually not of those that were of the seede onely but of such as are of the Faith of Abraham that is of such as beleeve with the heart and confesse with the mouth that he is their King and Governor This Title was not first given him upon the Crosse for the Prophets did prophesie of it before I have set my King upon my Holy Hill of Syon sayes David Psal 2.6 And so the Prophet Zachary Chap. 9. ver 9. Rejoyce greatly thou Daughter of Syon shout out thou Daughter of Jerusalem Behold thy King commeth unto thee Hee is just and having Salvation lowly riding upon an Asse His Dominion and Government was fore-told by Daniel Chap. 7. vers 14. There was given him Dominion and Glory and a Kingdome that all people Nations and languages should serve him His Dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not passe away and his Kingdome which shall not be destroyed It is he that is Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium The King of Kings and Lord of Lords Rev. 19.16 Rev. 19.16 With this Title did the Wise men seeke him Math. 2.2 Where is hee that is borne King of the Iewes With this Title did the Souldiers deride him Math. 27.29 Haile King of the Iewes And with this Title did Pilate thinke to dishonour him as it is in this Text Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iewes A King indeed hee was though Pilate knew it not whose Kingdome though it be in this World yet is it not of this World having nothing in it that is Temporall or Terrestriall but all Spirituall and Celestiall depending not upon Man but upon God consisting not in Riches Pompe Cities Castles Forts Armies But in Righteousnesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 He is universall Monarch in whose hands are the hearts of Kings whose Vicegerents onely they are heere upon Earth The Pope weares a Triple Crowne in token of his three-fold Kingdome In Heaven in Earth and in Hell or Purgatory What he assumes usurpingly Christ Iesus enjoyes properly For hee is a King Regens in Coelo per gloriam in Mundo per gratiam in Inferno per justitiam A King I say reigning in Heaven by his Glory in Earth by his Grace in Hell by his Iustice Unto this Kingdome Christ hath a Triple right The first as hee is God coequall with the Father by whom all things were made John 1.3 John 1.3 and this he is Iure Creationis By right of Creation Secondly he is King as hee is the Sonne of God whom the Father hath appointed Heire of all things Heb. 1.2 And this is Deno Patris By the donation of his Father All power is given me both in Heaven and Earth Math. 28.18 Thirdly he is King as he is Mediator betweene God and Man And this is Merito Redemptionis By the merit of Redemption and thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he is here styled Rex Iudaeorum King of the Iewes As hee is then our Iesus so is hee our King The which Title King presupposes a Kingdome and a Kingdome presupposes Subjects and Subjects presupposed Lawes and Government In the handling therefore of this Kingly Office I am constrayned though but in a word to unfold unto you a whole Commonwealth Christs Office his Kingdome his Subjects and his Government And first of his Office he is Rex A King The word King imports a Soveraigne power over Subjects whereof the Scripture records foure sorts First there is Rex infernalis An infernall King which is the Devill called by Iob Chap. 41. the last Verse Rex super omnes filios superbiae A King over all the children of pride And also tearmed by our Saviour Iohn 12.31 Princeps mundi The Prince of this world And by St. Paul Eph. 2.2 Eph. 2.2 Princeps Aëris The Prince of the Ayre And by St. Iohn Rev. 9.11 King of Locusts Abaddon by name a destroyer by nature whose Kingdome is of this world whose subjects are the slaves of sin and children of Disobedience whose government is wickednesse and whose Law is the transgression of all Gods Commandements Secondly there is Rex temporalis A temporall King such as Saul David Solomon Ezechias and others were in Israel Such as are now Kings of the Nations This Kingdome is both in this world and of this world Their Subjects men ordered by Reason and governed by Lawes Civill and Ecclesiasticall Thirdly there is Rex

whom God hath called to the inheritance of his Saints in loue stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free not suffering our soules to be entangled againe with the yoake of bondage Gal. 5.1 Their service is nothing but misery and wretchednesse For Mundus decipit Caro inficit Diabolus destruit The World will deceive us the Flesh will infect us and the Devill will destroy us from such Kings Good Lord deliver us Onely O blessed King of the Iewes bee thou our spirituall Soveraigne thou art wise and wilt instruct us thou art liberall and wilt reward us thou art mighty and wilt defend us thou art just and wilt not forget us thou art severe and wilt not suffer the wicked to tryumph over us thou art peaceable yea our peace for thou hast wrought Reconciliation with God the Father who with thee bee glorified for ever-more Fly then thou sinner from bondage to liberty from death to life from misery to glory Behold The King of the Iewes calls thee Come unto me all yee that are weary and heavy laden and I will refresh you Math. 11.28 Here is a Proclamation of pardon for thy revolt if thou wilt seeke it if thou wilt embrace it He that is King of the Jewes waites when thou wilt become his Subject Behold saith hee I stand at the doore and knocke if any man open unto me I will come in and suppe with him and he with me Rev. 3.20 Set open the gate of thy heart and the King of glory will come in Psal 24.7 He will come tibi si credis contra te si non credis If thou receive him with faith and repentance hee will come to comfort thee if neither with faith nor repentance hee will come to confound thee If thou become a Subject hee will defend thee if thou continue an enemy hee will destroy thee Now is Christ comming into thy Soule as once hee came to Ierusalem Oh beleeve that he is thy King entertaine him joyfully cut downe the Branches of old Adams corruption put off the ragges of sinne spread them in the way and let thy Saviour trample on them Receive him with hearty acclamations and say Hosanna to the Sonne of David Blessed is hee that commeth in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest Thus much touching the Office of our Jesus He is a King Now for that a King does necessarily presuppose a Kingdome for they are Relatives the next thing wee are to treate of is his Kingdome There was never any earthly Empire but had his limits and was bounded with some parts of the habitable World The Assyrian Grecian Roman and Turkish Emperors though they spread themselves farre and wide yet was there alwayes some Lands Nations and Kingdomes exempt from their Dominion There was never any earthly Monarchy that was perpetuall but as it had a time of increase so hath it a time of decrease being either by sedition or forraigne invasion or some vice or other brought to ruine herein resembling the naturall body of man which hath a time to bee conceived a time to bee nourished and a time to bee brought unto perfection But when it hath attained his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His full growth it declines againe as the Sunne when hee is come to the Meridian and in tract of time either by its owne imbecility or it may be sooner by diseases or soonest of all by sudden Death droppes into the Grave As it is with this Little world Man so is it with that Great Man the world subject it is to change and alteration Now herein Christs Kingdome exceeds all Kingdomes which as it is boundlesse for place so is it endlesse for time infinite in extent and eternall for continuance Hee shall reigne over the House of Iacob for ever there is his perpetuity and of his Kingdome there shall bee no end there is his infinitenesse The Kingdome of Christ is twofold Superius and Inferius His Kingdome which is above and his Kingdome which is below Or rather they are one Kingdome differenced by two degrees though usually we call one The Kingdome of Grace and the other The Kingdome of Glory The Kingdome of Grace is that which our Saviour sayes is within us Regnum Dei intra vos est The Kingdome of God is within you Luke 17.21 Luke 17.21 wherein CHRIST solely reignes without substituting any Viceroyes or Depu●●●s For the greatest Monarch a●● the most righteous Christian in the World is in this case but a fellow subject and therefore hath no rule over the Soule or command over the Conscience in matters divine tending to Gods worship though otherwise in matters Civill and Pol●●icall For as I have distinguished Christ from a temporall King so may his Kingdome bee distinguished from the other the one being wholly spirituall the other Per se directè wholly temporall This Kingdome or Grace is nothing else but our spiritual incorporation into the mysticall body of Christ being made lively branches of him who is the true Vine being established through faith in Christ This Kingdome consists not in worldly dignities terrestriall Tryumphs Citties Souldiers Councellours but in Righteousnesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 Rom. 14.17 All are not Subjects of this Kingdome that are visibly in this Kingdome For some there are that are dead Members rotten Branches having a shew of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Some againe there are which bee but Forraigners and Aliens though suffered to trade and traffique in it yet many of these have gotten the outward habite and have learned the Language of this Kingdome and doe so cunningly counterfeit that they cannot bee discerned from true subjects by any but by the King himselfe This Kingdome is but an initiation of the other Here have wee the first fruits there wee shall have the whole lampe this is but an earnest penny that other the full payment in this wee labour in that we receive the reward This is Christs Vi●eyard that his place of payment this is his Worke-house that his Treasury this is the Field of War-fare that the place of Tryumph yet here we must reigne over our selves before we can be crowned there For Regnum Coelorum sperare non potest qui propria membra regere non potest Hee can never hope to reigne in Heaven who doth not first reigne over his owne members here on Earth This Kingdome is not so secure as the other heere many fall away others are cut off some intrude without their Wedding-garments and are therefore imprisoned as Spyes This Kingdome is often disturbed by sedition of Heresies and Schisme oft shaken by the gusts of persecution often shrewdly undermyned by privy temptations but never overwhelmed For he who is King thereof is the Rocke whereon this Kingdome is immoveably founded Unto this Kingdome all strangers are invited the gates or Ports are shut to none For Gremium Ecclesiae nulli clauditur But some are