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A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Neither hast thou less reason to live in continual subjection to him, considering that as he died, and overcame Death that he might have these Keys, so he now hath them, and thou art under his governing Power. The more ⟨p. 101⟩thou considerest his right to Govern, the less thou wilt dispute it. When he was spoken of as a Child to us born, that he might become a Man of sorrows, & be sorrowful unto the Death, and have all the sorrows of Death come upon him, he is at the same time said to be the mighty God, 1& it was declared the Government should be upon his Shoulders. As he was the first begotten from the Dead, viz. both submitting to Death, and conquering it; so he was the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, (a small part of his Kingdom too) his Throne being founded on his Cross, his Governing Power, in his Sacrifice, i. e. The Power whereby he so governs, as that he may also save; making these two things the salving the Rights of the Godhead, injured by Sin, and the delivering of the Sinner from an Eternal ruin, to ⟨p. 102⟩agree, and consist with one another.
Neither hast thou less reason to live in continual subjection to him, considering that as he dy'd, and overcame Death that he might have these Keys, so he now hath them, and thou art under his governing Power. The more ⟨p. 101⟩thou consider'st his right to Govern, the less thou wilt dispute it. When he was spoken of as a Child to us born, that he might become a Man of sorrows, & be sorrowful unto the Death, and have all the sorrows of Death come upon him, he is at the same time said to be the mighty God, 1& it was declared the Government should be upon his Shoulders. As he was the first begotten from the Dead, viz. both submitting to Death, and conquering it; so he was the Prince of the Kings of the Earth, (a small part of his Kingdom too) his Throne being founded on his Cross, his Governing Power, in his Sacrifice, i. e. The Power whereby he so governs, as that he may also save; making these two things the salving the Rights of the Godhead, injured by Sin, and the delivering of the Sinner from an Eternal ruine, to