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A62905 A discourse of Christ's Second Coming and purging of his kingdom in two sermons on Matth. XIII, 41 / by Samuel Tomlyns. Tomlyns, Samuel, 1632 or 3-1700. 1695 (1695) Wing T1858; ESTC R25655 49,894 104

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into the Kingdom of Christ Col. 1.14 We are born in Satan's Kingdom as our Country and Natural Soil but by Grace we are led forth as a Colony into the Kingdom of Christ which is to a natural Man a strange Land and a new Soil But how are Men translated into the Kingdom of Christ surely it is by effectual Calling and Regeneration We are called as rational Creatures and we are regenerated as corrupt and impotent Creatures God is said to call us to his Kindom and Glory 1 Thes 2.12 Except a Man be born again he cannot see he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God John 3.3.5 He cannot see or understand that there is such a Kingdom or be willing to enter into it or be fitted to enjoy the Benefits and Blessings of it As Children must be born to be the Subjects of Earthly Kings so Men must be re-born to be the Subjects of the Heavenly King This is for the Honour and Glory of Christ's Kingdom that none can pass into it but by Regeneration Those that are the genuine and true Citizens of Zion and Members of the Church are said to be born there Ps 87.4 6. Those that God writes up as Citizens of Zion are such as are born there God's Register and the Church's Roll or Catalogue do many times much differ The Church owns those for her Children that God doth not acknowledge for his Sons and Daughters The Church takes in those that God will turn out God will repute none his Jewels call none his own but they that are born again of his Word and Spirit Mal. 3.17 1 Pet. 1.23 John 3.6 And indeed How can Men possibly be Subjects in God's Kingdom except they have spiritual Minds converted Wills heavenly Affections A vain Mind a carnal Heart will only flatter and lye to Christ Matth. 3.2 Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Men cannot be Subjects in or Heirs of the Kingdom of God without Faith and Repentance The good Seed are the Children of the Kingdom Matth. 13.35 Those that receive the Word are begotten by the Word of Truth John 1.18 that have it rooted in their Souls spreading and prevailing in their Hearts these are good Seed Jesus Christ doth not only sow Doctrinal Truths but living Christians He begets Sons and Daughters to God by the Word they are changed by and born of the Word and so are called Seed That Word is styled the Good Word Heb. 6.5 and they that are born of it are therefore called Good Seed Divine Chrysostom a Grecian Orator in one of his Orations derides the Folly of the Grecians that did call that one Man's Statue which was carved to resemble and set up to the Honour of another There was no new carving of or alteration in the Statue but only the Title of it was changed And do Men so easily pass out of the Kingdom of Satan into the Kingdom of Christ only by the changing of a Name No there must be another kind of Alteration There must not only be a new Name but a new Heart a new Nature Ezek. 36.26 2 Pet. 1.4 O descend into your Hearts What Experience have you of the Work of the Spirit in dethroning Satan and inthroning Christ in your Hearts destroying the Kingdom of Sin and exalting the Kingdom of God Consult your own Souls about this Can you be totally ignorant of it if such a change hath been made in you Doth not every one take notice of publick Revolutions in Government if one Prince dye or be deposed and another succeed and be set up in his Place And hath there been so great a spiritual Revolution in thy Soul hath Satan been cast out and hath Christ entred to dwell and rule in thy Heart and hast thou no knowledge of it Hast thou no experience of a new light set up in thy Mind a new Byass put upon thy Will new Motions raised in thy Affections towards spiritual and supernatural Objects 3dly Are the Laws of this Holy King and of this Heavenly Kingdom writ in thy Heart according to that promise of the new Covenant Jer. 31.33 I will write my laws in their hearts and put them into their inner parts This is the Glory of Christ that he writes his Laws in the Table of the Mind and Will 2 Cor. 3.3 His Subjects not only know but love and ask his Laws Their Obedience to them is not forced or feigned but they obey from the Heart Rom. 6.17 They delight in the Law of God according to the inward Man Rom. 7.22 God's Subjects are thus described That the Law of God is in their Hearts It is not an urging Letter without but a vital Principle within Psal 37.31 The law of his God is in his heart and Isa 51.7 Hearken unto me ye that know righteousness the People in whose heart is my law Christ plants such Dispositions such Inclinations as are suitable and agreeable to the Law of God and may be styled a counter p●●t of it and do answer to it Psal 119.112 I have enclined my heart to perform thy Statutes always even to the end This is a writing that doth exact and ennoble the Table th●● is the Subject of it And this is an high Act of Grace when God doth not only write his Laws to us but in us Do you approve allow delight in the Laws of God Do your Souls break for the Longings yee have to and after them that they might be more revealed to you and impressed on you Psal 119.20 4thly Are you led by the Spirit of the King Rom. 8.9 14. If any man hath not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his As many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Se●● of God This is a wonderful and a great Mystery that the Spirit of the King is in his Subjects and they all make but one mystical Body and the Spirit is as the Soul that animates this Body Were ever King and Subjects so nearly linked united related to each other Christ is not only a politick Head that gives Laws but as a natural Head that giveth Life The Spirit that influenced Christ acts them the Spirit that resides in Christ dwells also in them The People of Christ must needs therefore be a free and willing People Do not the Members of the natural Body without Regret or Reluctancy obey the Dictates of the Head How powerful yet how easie and sweet is the Government of the Head over the Members Christ's Spirit doth not only teach and direct but powerfully bend and encline the Will to walk yea to run in the way of God's Commandments Psal 119.32 Saints do not desire the way to Heaven to be made broader but their Hearts to be made larger to have their light and love encreased The Spirit is styled A Spirit of Revelation Ephes 1.17 A Spirit of Life Rom 8.2 A Free Spirit Psal 51.12 A Spirit that makes us free and forward in our Obedience We are not only