An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Fourthly, This lordly power which Christ hath, extends to all things in the world, he is Lord over the whole world. He is the universal Monarch; for God hath given him all the kingdoms of the world, Rev. 11. 15. The kingdoms of this world are there said to become the Lords, and of his Christ: Yea in some sense this great Dominion is given to every Saint, Revel. 2. 26. To have power over all Nations, even as he hath received of the Father. Hence it is said, John 5. 22. That the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgement to the Son; not that the Father hath wholly abdicated himself from the government of the world, as the Socinians say, but because Christ as Mediator is subordinate unto him in this administration. Christ therefore hath an universal power over the whole world; And whereas learned men say, One man cannot be universal Governor over the whole world, much less over the Church, because no man can have those qualifications fit for to discharge that Government: yet in Christ this doth not hold, because he is God as well as man; but this Dominion of Christ, in respect of his Church, is of another nature than that of the world, for he rules the world with a rod of iron, breaking every thing to pieces that shall prejudice his Church: So that this power over them is wholly coactive, as they do not willingly own or submit to him as a Lord; so he doth by his omnipotent power keep them under, and makes them servants and vassals for his work, and to bring about such glorious ends, which they never intended, or shall have any benefit by, as those that built Noah's Ark, were not preserved in it. But to his Church, there he holdeth out a Sceptre of grace. For as they do willingly own him as their King, submitting to his order and laws; so he taketh special care over them, and they may more safely lay themselves down under his protection, than under the greatest Potentate in the world.

Fourthly, This lordly power which Christ hath, extends to all things in the world, he is Lord over the whole world. He is the universal Monarch; for God hath given him all the kingdoms of the world, Rev. 11. 15. The kingdoms of this world are there said to become the Lords, and of his Christ: Yea in some sense this great Dominion is given to every Saint,