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A sermon preached to the Parliament, Octob. 13. 1652. A day of solemn humiliation.…A sermon preached to the Parliament, Octob. 13. 1652. A day of solemne humiliation.…
A sermon preached to the Parliament, Octob. 13. 1652. A day of solemn humiliation. Concerning the kingdom of Christ, and the power of the civil magistrate about the things of the worship of God. / By John Owen.A sermon preached to the Parliament, Octob. 13. 1652. A day of solemne humiliation. Concerning the kingdome of Christ, and the power of the civile magistrate about the things of the worship of God. / By John Owen.
Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield printer to the University for Thomas Robinson, 1652
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Hence, when Christ is tendered in the Gospel, the Judges and Rulers of the Nations, are exhorted to obedience to him, upon pain of being destroyed upon the refusal thereof: Psal: 2. 12. And we have the experience of all Ages, ever since the day, that the Gospel began to be propagated in the World: The quarrel of it was revenged on the Jews by the Romans, upon the Romans by the Goths, Vandals, and innumerable barbarous Nations; and the vengeance due to ⟨p. 49⟩the Antichristian World is at hand, even at the door. The Lord will certainly make good his promise to the utmost, that the Kingdoms and Nations, which will not serve the Church, even that Kingdom and those Nations shall utterly perish: Isai. 60. 12.
Hence, when Christ is tendred in the Gospell, the Judges and Rulers of the Nations, are exhorted to obedience to him, upon paine of being destroyed upon the refusall thereof: Psal: 2. 12. And we have the experience of all Ages, ever since the day, that the Gospell began to be propagated in the World: The quarrell of it was revenged on the Jewes by the Romans, upon the Romans by the Goths, Vandalls, and innumerable barbarous Nations; and the vengeance due to ⟨p. 49⟩the Antichristian World is at hand, even at the doore. The Lord will certainly make good his promise to the utmost, that the Kingdoms and Nations, which will not serve the Church, even that Kingdome and those Nations shall utterly perish: Isai. 60. 12.
4. That it is the duty of Magistrates to seek the good, peace, and prosperity of the people committed to their charge, and to prevent, obviate, remove, take away every thing, that will bring confusion, destruction, desolation upon them: as Mordecai procured good things for his people, and prosperity to his kindred: Esther. 10. 4. And David describes himself with all earnestness, pursuing the same design, Ps: 101. Magistrates are the Ministers of God for the good, (universal good) of them to whom they are given,