under the Government God hath given us I need say no more to you 3. But for you beloved Fathers and Brethren that believingly look for the Lord Jesus Christ that once abased himself and died for us and hath procured us so much good by his Cross and by vertue thereof extends so much mercy daily to us to come again personally in glory and to take to him his great Power sit upon the Throne of David his Father and raign and all his Saints to come with him and raign with him and so all the Kingdome under the whole Heavens to be given to the Saints of the most Hight It is marvel to me that any of you should be discontent at the Government under which you enjoy so many mercies that you cannot with thankfulness live quietly under it and wait with patience for that day If in my Address to you for this I come 〈◊〉 in touching some goodly appearing thoughts yet he that loveth there is no occasion of stumbling in him and I hope Love will so lead me that I shall offer no just occasion for love to be provoked or stumble at 1. If you say Your desire is that Christ may raign in his Saints and your grief and offence taken is because it is not so then I pray let us begin at home and we shall finde the greatest cause of grief for this to be within our selves and in this desire I am perswaded not onely our Protector but all Saints in this Commonwealth are one with us for Christ raigning in his Saints in this Day of his Grace and Patience is not his raigning with and by his Saints in making all of them the outward 〈◊〉 and Governours of the men of this World but raigning and living in his Saints by his Word and Spirit subduing every Thought to the Obedience of Christ Cal. 2.20 2 Cor. 10.3,4 4.13 2 Tim. 1.7 1 Cor. 9 19-27 1 Joh. 5.4,5 Rev. 12 11. 3.10 Act. 9.4,5 Col. 1.24 2 Tim. 2.12 and them to accept the Cross of Christ and Conformity to him in it and so by the Spirit of Faith Love Power and a sound Minde he dwells in them and they live to him and yet are in this World for his sake as he was subject to humane Powers and Servants to all for their good and though they overcome the World yet the Victory is by Faith proceeding to more spiritual goodness and 〈◊〉 by carnal Weapons reaching to worldly Power and Honour over men but by the Blood of the Lamb and the Word of their Testimony not loving their lives unto the death so as while he raigns in them they keep the Word of his Patience and are Sufferers for him and with him and he with them who shall after raign with him when he raigns and this I hope you all believe and this also That Christ his raigning in his Saints hath been from the beginning ever since he had a Church on Earth Psa 68.18,19 1 Cor. 2 14. 1 Joh. 3.1 1 Cor. 1.4,5,6 Col. 1.12,13 Rom. 14 1-17 15.1,2,3 Rev. 11 15-18 Col. 3.4 2 Thes 1 7-10 1 Thes 1.10 and more abundantly and manifestly since he compleated his Sacrifice and advanced our Nature in himself to Heaven and sent forth such plentiful gifts of the Holy Ghost and so doth in this Day though the men of the World cannot perceive it and our eye-sight so weak that a little dust of some difference so blindeth us that we can hardly discern it in our Brethren dissenting from us though in circumstance so as to give thanks as the Apostle did for the Corinthians and Colossians but need rather that admonition given to the Romans but the Saints raigning with Christ and his own personal raigning with and by them as it is yet to come so it comes at once and they begin together when he comes and takes to him his great Power and raigns over the Kingdoms of the World then and not till then shall his Saints so raign with him he that believeth on him makes not haste nor desires to raign before his Master but waits for that till the Lord comes from Heaven and when by providence he putteth any Saint into a place of worldly Power and Government yet in that also they will be found Sufferers with their Master and Strangers in this World as Saints and though Protectors of their Brethren the Saints in their outward Peace yet Rulers of them as men also in their outward affairs and not able to carry all as they would in and by their several Officers and Under-Governours in this World wo is us if they should suffer any thing by us for whom questionless they suffer much Psa 75.2 72.4 39.12 2 Sam. 23.5 Heb. 4 7-11 11 8-16 1 Thes 1.9,10 so that we cannot look to have all without fault here we must wait for that till our Lord and Master himself doth come even thus it was with David And so the time of the Saints rest and raigning with Christ over the men of the World is not yet It is better for us to have Christ raigning in us now and to look for our raigning with him as Abraham and our Fathers did for the Inheritance and Kingdom 2. If any of you say We agree in this onely we would have Christ to be set on his Throne I answer To desire and haste to that Day All Saints that believe such a Day as in which Christ shall sit on his Throne do assuredly joyn with you but before that Day to desire or attempt to set Christ on his Throne none that rightly understand and well ponder the business dare joyn with you in desire or essay I beseech you consider with me but these things which I hope you believe as I do First Rev. 3.21 4.2 Psa 103.19 66.7 Heb. 8.1 1 Pet. 3.22 Joh. 5.17,19,20 Prov. 8.15,16 1 Pet. 2 2,3-9 Psa 110.1 Act. 2.33,37 3.19,20 That the Throne of Christ he is now upon is the Throne of the Father and he and he onely as man and no man but he is already set down with his Father on his Throne nowhere called The Throne of David but The Father's Throne The Throne of God that is set in Heaven where he even the Man Christ now is set on the right Hand of God all Power and Authority given unto him so as God doth all by Jesus Christ and he doth all both from God and as God and so he ruleth by his Power for ever and his Kingdom ruleth over all and by such Magistrates as he pleaseth he ruleth the Sons of men and by his gracious Word and Spirit he gathereth a people to himself and ruleth in their hearts and societies And thus is Christ by his Father set with his Father upon his Throne and there to continue till he make his Enemies his Footstool which is the time of the restauration of all things and then none shall fetch him down