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A95617	Christ's government in and over his people. Delivered in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late publick and solemne fast, Octob. 26. 1642. / By Thomas Temple D.D. and minister of the Church of Battersea in Surrey. Published by order of that House.	Temple, Thomas, d. 1661.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1642 (1642)	Wing T634; Thomason E127_37; ESTC R4760	39,793	55

peace is that crownes all other blessings so Christ knowing the excellency of this and that none could give it but himselfe did therfore when he was to leave the earth promise this as a fruit of his Kingly office to leave his disciples this legacy of peace Iob. 14.27 peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you it is Christs peace not the worlds in mee ye shall have peace Ioh. 16.33 if Christ speak a word of peace to our harts if he give us an answer of peace as Ioseph said to Pharoah God shall give Pharoah an answer of peace then though wee have tribulations in the world wee shal be of good cheere wee shall have comfort enough Christ as King hath overcome the world and will settle peace in us that 's the expedience of Christs goingfrom us that he may send us the comforter it is expedient that I goe away for if I goe not away the comforter will not come Iohn 15.7 but if I depart I will send him unto you being in the administration of his kingdom he sends comfort There is no having peace nor joy nor comfort but from Christ who as King is only able to allay all stormes and troubles which the divell and our owne consciences for sin raise within us It is with inward peace as it is with the outward if he give quietnesse who can make trouble Iob 34.29 if Christ work quietnesse if he make a calme in the spirit if he rebuke the winds and the sea Mat. 14.32 nothing from the world can raise a tempest Christs reigne over us Mic. 4.7 Luke 1.33 2 Christ reignes over us the Lord shall reigne over them in mount Sion he shall reigne over the house of Iacob not only in us but over us not only in us for his glory but over us also for our good This is termed by the Psalmist a sitting on the right hand of the Father Psal 110.1 the Lord said to my Lord sit thou on my right hand a phrase to note the actuall administration of his kingdom that as a king he sits in great power judging among his enimies and governing his people And there are also severall acts wherein the exercise of this part of his kingdom over us consists First in suppressing the enemies of the Church that is the power that God gives to Christ as King of his Church to rule in the midst of his enimies Psal 110.2 and the promise God made to Abraham Gen. 22.17 that his seed should possesse the gate of his enemies While Gods people keep covenant with God they shall be secure the lilly shall grow up among the thornes Cant. 2.2 and there shal be no enchantment against Iacob Numb 23.23 no divination against Israel Christ settles his Church so strong that the gates of hell shall never prevaile against her Mat. 16.18 shee may be assaulted and shaken but never conquered as the Romans lost some battells but they never lost a war Gods Church may have some foyles but shee shall be alwayes the conquerer in the end God commands deliverances for his people thou art my King Psal 44.4 O God command deliverances for Iacob 't is the comfort of Gods people to know so long as Christ stands 1 Sam. 8.20 his Church shall not fall the people thought themselves safe when they had a King to fight their battells so long as we have Christ to fight our battells we need not feare if Christ be for us none can be against us Secondly in bestowing all blessings upon us in him shall all the nations of the earth be blest Gen. 22.18 all who are blest are blest in Christ who is the King commanding blessings upon his people blessings spirituall blessed be God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ Eph 1 3. who hath blest us with all spirituall blessings in Christ hee the head and fountaine of all spirituall blessings blessings temporall as Ioseph was a type of Gods Church all those blessings which Iacob prophesied should come upon the head of Ioseph shall through Christ come upon the head of the Church the blessings of heaven above the blessings of the deep that lye under the blessings of the breast and the blessings of the womb Gen 49.25 unto the utmost bounds of the everlasting hills they shall be upon the head of Ioseph upon the head of the Church and at last the blessing of eternall glory in heaven Rev. 1.6 when Christ shall with himselfe make all his people who serve him here Kings to reigne with him there for ever Thirdly In sanctifying all conditions and ordering and turning all to the best for his own people there is no condition prosperity adversity health sicknes life death but it would be hurtfull to us if Christ did not sit as King to moderate and sanctifie it to us Wee know Rom. 8.28 sayes the Apostle all things work together for the good of them that love God who are called according to his purpose how comes it that all things work together for their good who love God and are the called of God more then for theirs who love him not and are not called of him that affliction is sanctified to the one and not to the other as S. Aug. saies you may observe in the same fire the gold sparkles and gathers lustre abunoigne aurum rutilat palea sumat when the stubble consumes and vanishes to smoake because Christ sits as King to order every thing for the best of his own subjects and to turne every thing for the worst to his enemies Christ does for us heere as he does for us in heaven Irgoe to prepare a place for you Ioh. 14.2 so here 't is Christs work to prepare places and conditions for his people to sanctifie every thing to them As on the one side he curses all to his enemies I will curse your blessings Mal. 2.2 there is a secret curse goes along with all those things they count their greatest blessings so on the other side he blesses all those things to his children which they might conceive to be curses to them and to make most against them Iacob when he saw Ioseph lost and Simeon left bound in Aegypt and Benjamin to be carried from him he strait concluded all these things are against mee Gen. 42.36 when yet all made for him and preservation of himselfe and the life of his family in Aegypt Gen. 45.5 Ioseph thought his own casting into prison would have proved his ruine for ever Gen. 39.20 when yet God made it the means of his greatest advancement The Iewes thought the plot of Haman would have bin their confusion when yet God so ordered it as the day intended for their destruction was turned to them from sorrow to joy Hest 9.22 from mourning into a good day Moses notes it touching Balaams curse with which Balak King

nation but hath or shall have Christs Throne set up among them Christ shall have some subjects there some in the houshold of Caesar Phil. 4.22 all the Saints salute you cheifly they that are of Caesars houshold though not Caesar himselfe yet there were Saints in his houshold that acknowledged him Acts 8 2● In the Court of the Queene of Aethiopia one Eunuch that imbraced the faith as God promised of old turne ser 3.14 O backsliding children I am married to you I will take you one of a City and two of a family and bring you to Sion so now if God call not all yet he will call some in every place heere one and there one heere one in a family and there two in a Citty and bring them to Sion And there are severall acts wherein this kingdom of Christs that is within us consists 1. In giving his people lawes of life and governing by them as there is in every King a legislative power a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to make and establish and publish lawes such a power but farre greater has Christ to make and establish lawes for the government of his people this is called by the Psalmist the sending forth of the rod of Christs strength out of Sion Psal 110.2 which the Prophets Esay and Micah both expound touching the law which is the strength of a King Out of Sion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem Isa 2.3 Mica 4.2 But further here is the act and exercise of Christs government in giving lawes not that he gives any laws but that he gives laws of life Christ might give us such laws as God saies he gave the rebellious Israelites for their sins Ezek 20.25 Statutes that were not good and judgements whereby they should not live whether it be meant the ceremoniall laws that were unprofitable to lead them to heaven or what other laws soever precepts God gave them that were in some respect or other not good for them statutes in which they could not have life such Christ might give us now statutes and precepts that are not good that might be burthensom or unprofitable not leading to life But the laws Christ gives they are laws leading to life Ezck. 20.11 Levi. 16.5 Gal. 3.12 statutes and judgements which if a man do he shall even live in them T is true indeed by the corruption of our natures the law may prove to our destruction Tom. 7.10 the commandment which was ordained to life I found to be unto death for sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and by it slew me Though the law per se of it self leads and is ordained to life yet the corruption of nature stirring up the heart to break the law does thereby ex accidenti and occasionally turn the edge of the law against us to condemne us which would have been to save us Rom. 7.12 The law is holy and just and good since Christs laws are holy laws the end of which is to work holinesse in us and just laws which prescribe nothing but what is equall for all to obey and good laws setting forth the goodnesse of God to us in them and winning us to goodnesse by them they must needs be acknowledged laws of life in themselves such as lead to life if kept as for that end proposed by Christ not to lead to our destruction 2. In working graces in the hearts of his people Christ may give laws but if withall hee work not grace in our hearts if he give not power to keep those laws we shall never observe them it is therefore a second part of his Office as King to give us grace and strength to do what he proposeth to us to be done A wicked man in whose heart Christ has not yet set up his Kingdome looks upon Christs laws as strange things as God speaks by the Prophet I have written to them the great things of my law Hos 8.12 and they were accounted as a strange thing such a man looks on Christs laws as strange things that concerned him nor things he neither can neither hath any will to do but when Christ comes as a King to such a man he puts an inward love and inclination into his heart to those laws and a strength to keep them That is part of the new covenant which God makes with us and Christ enables to keep I will put my lawes into your minds I●r 31.33 Heb. 8.10 and write them in your hearts Gods lawes are at first out of the minds of people they are only written in our books when Christ comes to us as a King those lawes he writ with his own finger upon Mount Sinai in tables of stone he now writes with the finger of his spirit in the tables of our hearts those laws which he put into the Ark there to be laid up for ever he now puts into the Ark of our hearts never to be forgotten This is the excellency of Christ above Moses Moses is but the servant of Gods house Heb. 3.5 Christ the Son is the commander in and over the house Moses sets the lawes before us Christ over awes and enables the spirit to keep them Moses prescribes the feare of God to us Deut. 6.13.17 You shall feare the Lord your God Christ as a King strikes powerfully a feare into us Ier. 32.40 I will put my feare into your hearts Moses commands us to love God thou shalt love the Lord thy God Deut. 11.1 Christ enables to love him Deut 30.6 the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 2.19 The circumcision of the heart is Gods work as the circumcision of the flesh is mans Moses commands to walk in Gods statutes what does the Lord thy God require of thee Deut. 10.12 but to feare the Lord and to walk in all his wayes but when the spirits of naturall men cannot comply with holy laws Christ enables them Ezel 11.29 I will give them one heart and put a new spirit within them that they may walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances Eze● ●6 26 and do them Christ not only sets the wayes before us but withall causes us to walk in them gives us natures suitable and spirits agreeable to those wayes such as shall delight in them If we were to do Gods works by mans strength wee should give but an ill account of our performances we should have no strength for them no delight in them but Christ strengthens us Phil. 4.13 I can do all things through Christ strengthning me nay Christ who works the very works in us not I but the grace of God in me 1 Cor. 15.10 The new man under the new covenant hath new strengths as when Samuel went to annoint Saul King over Gods