A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

The end of God's creating the world was to prepare a kingdom for his Son, (for he is appointed heir of the world), and that he might have the possession of it, and a kingdom in it, which shall remain to all eternity. So that, so far forth as the kingdom of Christ is set up in the world so far is the world brought to its end, and the eternal state of things set up. So far are all the great changes and revolutions of the ages of the world brought to their everlasting issue, and all things come to their ultimate period. So far are the waters of the long channel of divine ⟨p. 176⟩providence, which has so many branches, and so many windings and turnings, emptied out into their proper ocean, which they have been seeking from the beginning and head of their course, and so are come to their rest. So far as Christ's kingdom is established in the world, so far are things wound up and settled in their everlasting state, and a period put to the course of things in this changeable world; so far are the first heavens and the first earth come to an end, and the new heavens and the new earth come to an end, and the new heavens and the new earth, the everlasting heavens and earth, established in their room. This leads me to observe,

IV. That the sta•e of things which is attained by the events of this period, is what is so often called the kingdom of heaven, or the kingdom of God We very often read in the New-Testament of the kingdom of heaven. John the Baptist preached, that the kingdom of heaven was at hand; and so did Christ, and his disciples after him; referring to something that the Jews in those days expected, and very much talked of, which they called by that name. They seem to have taken their expectation and the name chiefly from that prophecy of Daniel in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, Dan. ii.44. "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom;" together with that in chap. vii.13.14.

IV. That the stae of things which is attained by the events of this period, is what is so often called the kingdom of heaven, or the kingdom of God We very often read in the New-Testament of the kingdom of heaven. John the Baptist preached, that the kingdom of heaven was at hand; and so did Christ, and his disciples after him; refering to something that the Jews in those days expected, and very much talked of, which they called by that name. They seem to have taken their expectation and the name chiefly from that prophecy of Daniel in Nebuchadnezzar's dream,