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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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And of this universal righteous judgement, he giveth many warnings unto the world, by pouring forth sundry vials of his wrath, upon great Nimrods and oppressors. (Psal. 110. 6. Mich. 4. 3. Rev. 19. 11, 12, 13. And in the holding forth these three parts of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus, doth the Scripture abound.
And of this universall righteous judgement, he giveth many warnings unto the world, by powring forth sundry vialls of his wrath, upon great Nimrods and oppressors. (Psal. 110. 6. Mich. 4. 3. Rev. 19. 11, 12, 13. And in the holding forth these three parts of the Kingdome of the Lord Jesus, doth the Scripture abound.
But now whether over and beyond all these, the Lord Christ shall not bear an outward, visible, glorious rule? Setting up a Kingdom like those of the World, to be ruled by strength and power? and if so; When, or how it shall be brought in, into whose hands the Administration of it shall be committed, & upon what account, whether he will personally walk therein or no, ⟨p. 14⟩whether it shall be clearly distinct from the Rule he now bears in the world, or only differenced by more glorious degrees and manifestations of his power? Endless and irreconcilable, are the contests of those that profess his name: This we find by woeful experience, that all who from the spirituality of the Rule of Christ, and delight therein, have degenerated into carnal apprehensions of the beauty and glory of it, have for the most part, been given up to carnal actings, suited to such apprehensions, and have been so dazzled, with gazing after temporal glory, that the Kingdom which comes not by observation, hath been vile in their eyes.