Use 2. To exhort us to desire the Coming of Christ's Kingdom to our selves. If you have any Love to the Lord's Glory, or your own Good, you should do it. Rev. 3. 20. Behold, I stand at the Door, and knock: If any Man hear my Voice, and open the Door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me. Will you not open to God, that hath the best Right? Will you not set open the doors to the King of Glory? When Christ comes to bring entertainment to you, to sup with you. Again, all Men (will they, nill they) are subject to Christ; either they must come, and touch his Golden Sceptre, or feel the Bruises of his Iron Mace; they must own him as King. Every Knee shall bow, Phil. 2. 10. Therefore be more willing to have the Kingdom of Glory come. Again, if God be not your King, you will have a worse Master, every Sin, every Lust: Tit. 3. 3. Serving divers Lusts and Pleasures. You will be at the Beck of every Lust and carnal Motion, and the Devil will be your Master to purpose; for upon the refusal of Christ's Government, there's a Judicial Tradition, you are given up to your own Hearts Lusts. Psal. 81. 12. Israel ⟨p. 214⟩would none of me; so I gave them up to their own Hearts Lusts, and they walked in their own Counsels. And to Satan, to be ensnared by him; 2 Tim. 2. 26. Taken captive by him at his Will and Pleasure. Not to buffet them, as Paul was, but to ensnare and harden their Hearts. Again, if you be not subject to God, you go about to make God subject to you in effect. You would have the Kingdom of Glory, and yet continue in your Lusts. Isa. 43. 24. Thou hast made me to serve with thy Sins, thou hast wearied me with thine Iniquities. When you would have God patient, hold his hand, and be merciful to you, and yet would continue in your Lusts, then you make God serve with your Sins. Again, many temporal Inconveniences will follow, if we do not give way to the Kingdom of Christ to seize upon us; when we make no difference between God's Service, and the Service of other Lords, then he gives us up to the Service of Men, to a foreign Enemy, to an oppressive Magistrate, or breaks the Staff of Government among Men, that we might know what it is to be under his Service and Government. Therefore give willing Entertainment to the Kingdom of Christ.
Vse 2. To exhort us to desire the Coming of Christ's Kingdom to our selves. If you have any Love to the Lord's Glory, or your own Good, you should do it. Rev. 3. 20. Behold, I stand at the Door, and knock: If any Man hear my Voice, and open the Door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me. Will you not open to God, that hath the best Right? Will you not set open the doors to the King of Glory? When Christ comes to bring entertainment to you, to sup with you. Again, all Men (will they, nill they) are subject to Christ; either they must come, and touch his Golden Scepter, or feel the Bruises of his Iron Mace; they must own him as King. Every Knee shall bow, Phil. 2. 10. Therefore be more willing to have the Kingdom of Glory come. Again, if God be not your King, you will have a worse Master, every Sin, every Lust: Tit. 3. 3. Serving divers Lusts and Pleasures. You will be at the Beck of every Lust and carnal Motion, and the Devil will be your Master to purpose; for upon the refusal of Christ's Government, there's a Judicial Tradition, you are given up to your own Hearts Lusts. Psal. 81. 12. Israel ⟨p. 214⟩would none of me; so I gave them up to their own Hearts Lusts, and they walked in their own Counsels. And to Satan, to be insnared by him; 2 Tim. 2. 26. Taken captive by him at his Will and Pleasure. Not to buffet them, as Paul was, but to ensnare and harden their Hearts. Again, if you be not subject to God, you go about to make God subject to you in effect. You would have the Kingdom of Glory, and yet continue in your Lusts. Isa. 43. 24. Thou hast made me to serve with thy Sins, thou hast wearied me with thine Iniquities. When you would have God patient, hold his hand, and be merciful to you, and yet would continue in your Lusts, then you make God serve with your Sins. Again, many temporal Inconveniencies will follow, if we do not give way to the Kingdom of Christ to seize upon us; when we make no difference between God's Service, and the Service of other Lords, then he gives us up to the Service of Men, to a foreign Enemy, to an oppressive Magistrate, or breaks the Staff of Government among Men, that we might know what it is to be under his Service and Government. Therefore give willing Entertainment to the Kingdom of Christ.
