§ 2. When he had prepared them to be voluntary Subjects, by the Preaching of the Gospel, and the Church came to maturity, Christ actually set up National Kingdom-Churches; and Ruled by Constantine & successive Christian Princes: And Heaven and Earth rejoiced that he had taken to him his great Power and Reigned, and that the Kingdoms of the World were become his Kingdoms, Rev. 17. & 18. & 19. Infancy is fitter for Instruction than to Govern. Man is made to use Reason; but he useth little in Infancy, or till maturity. That which was first in intention, is last in execution. Mature Reason in Man, and Princely Government in Kingdom-Churches, was first in intention, tho' not in execution. Who would wish that Pagans had still Reigned? What Christian wisheth not that the Persians, Indians, Turks, Tartars, &c. were all Christian Kingdoms? Why else do the Millennies hope for such a state of holy Government?
§ 2. When he had prepared them to be voluntary Subjects, by the Preaching of the Gospel, and the Church came to maturity, Christ actually set up National Kingdom-Churches; and Ruled by Constantine & successive Christian Princes: And Heaven and Earth rejoyced that he had taken to him his great Power and Reigned, and that the Kingdoms of the World were become his Kingdoms, Rev. 17. & 18. & 19. Infancy is fitter for Instruction than to Govern. Man is made to use Reason; but he useth little in Infancy, or till maturity. That which was first in intention, is last in execution. Mature Reason in Man, and Princely Government in Kingdom-Churches, was first in intention, tho' not in execution. Who would wish that Pagans had still Reigned? What Christian wisheth not that the Persians, Indians, Turks, Tartars, &c. were all Christian Kingdoms? Why else do the Millennies hope for such a state of holy Government?
