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A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer
A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer by ... Thomas Manton.
London: printed by J.D., 1684
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.
(1.) As Externally administered in the Ordinances and Means of Grace, as the Word, and Seals, and Censures, and the like. In this Sense it is said, Mat. 21. 43. The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a Nation, bringing forth the Fruits thereof. The Gospel, or Means of Grace, administered in the visible Face of the Church, they are called God's Kingdom upon Earth, and a very great Privilege they are, when they are bestowed upon any People. Surely, when Christ saith, The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, he doth not mean it of the inward Kingdom, that they had not, that cannot be lost, but of the outward and external Means.
(1.) As Externally administred in the Ordinances and Means of Grace, as the Word, and Seals, and Censures, and the like. In this Sence it is said, Mat. 21. 43. The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a Nation, bringing forth the Fruits thereof. The Gospel, or Means of Grace, administred in the visible Face of the Church, they are called God's Kingdom upon Earth, and a very great Priviledg they are, when they are bestowed upon any People. Surely, when Christ saith, The Kingdom of God shall be taken from you, he doth not mean it of the inward Kingdom, that they had not, that cannot be lost, but of the outward and external Means.
(2.) As internally received: and then by it is meant the Grace of God, which rules in the Hearts of the Elect, and causeth their Souls to submit and subject themselves unto the Obedience of Christ, and unto his Sceptre, and to his Word and Spirit, and this is that Kingdom properly which is within us. This is the Kingdom of God which consisteth in Righteousness, Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost, Rom. 14. 17. And this differeth from the Kingdom of Glory, not so much in Nature, as in Degree.
(2.) As internally received: and then by it is meant the Grace of God, which rules in the Hearts of the Elect, and causeth their Souls to submit and subject themselves unto the Obedience of Christ, and unto his Scepter, and to his Word and Spirit, and this is that Kingdom properly which is within us. This is the Kingdom of God which consisteth in Righteousness, Peace, and Ioy in the Holy Ghost,