The great interest of states & kingdoms. A sermon preached before the Honourable House…The great interest of states & kingdomes. A sermon preached before the Honorable House…

Now that second Psalm (whither the Apostles have brought us, and which the Apostles in the beginning of the Gospel prayed thus over, against the Jews) was by the holy Ghost intended against all Nations and Kingdoms that should in like manner deal injuriously with the Saints, (as the Jews had done with Christ) to the end of the world, so making this instance the pattern and example to the rest. In ⟨p. 36⟩the next words (if you read on) you find a solemn inauguration of Christ, as King, now, when ascended into heaven, I have set my King on my holy hill, with a Proclamation & Declaration of Gods Decree, and great Design under the New Testament, to be effected and accomplished by this his new King set up, I WILL DECLARE the DECREE. &c. ver. 7. which (as a Preface) refers to all that follows, and is in effect no other then the same you have all this while heard out of the Old. He gives Christ as a boon, upon his Inauguration, all the Kingdoms of the world, I will give thee (saith he) the Heathen for thine inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession. What to do? Either to break them, or convert them. Thou shalt bruise them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potters vessel: and this drift the Apostles well knew, and therefore pertinently urged it in their Prayer to God against the Jews, which Prayer of theirs had a concurrent influence into their ruin. Now as the destruction of Jerusalem is made by Christ the fore-running type of the end of the world, so the destruction of that Nation for these their doings to Christ and his Apostles and their followers, is an example to all Kingdoms that shall do the like afterwards unto the Saints: for which Christ hath and will break them also. Therefore how ends the Psalm? BE WISE O YE KINGS, AND INSTRUCTED YE JUDGES OF THE EARTH, &c. That is in effect, All ye States and Princes of the world, learn to know this your INTEREST. Although this might be enough in the general, for the whole New Testament:

Now that second Psalme (whither the Apostles have brought us, and which the Apostles in the beginning of the Gospel prayed thus over, against the Jewes) was by the holy Ghost intended against all Nations and Kingdomes that should in like manner deal injuriously with the Saints, (as the Jews had done with Christ) to the end of the world, so making this instance the pattern and example to the rest. In ⟨p. 36⟩