CONTENTS. This gospel of the kingdom fhall be preached in all the world, for a witness unto all nations; and then fhall the end come. 4I " And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it, faying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days fhall come upon thee, that thine enemies fhall caft a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every fide, and Shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they fhall not leave On the future Converfion of the Jews. Recapitulation, with reflections and in- I have told you before it come to pass, that ERRAT A. Page 21. n. 1. 2. for 19. read 18. 32. n. d. r. Matt. xiii. 43. and refer Mark xiv. 239 SERMON I T MATT. VI. 10. Thy kingdom come. HE kingdom of God is an expreffion which has different acceptations in holy fcripture. It denotes his eternal and his fpiritual dominion; that fovereign power, which the Creator of all things exercifeth over the works of his hands, and that state of grace and falvation, which was established in the world by Jefus Chrift. The former, it is evident, is neither fubject to 3 Βασιλείας τ8 Θες δύο οι δεν ή γραφη, την μεν κατ' οικείωσιν, την κατα δημουργίαν. βασιλεύει μεν γαρ άπαντων-κατα τον της δημιουργίας λογον βασιλευει δε των πιςων κατα τον της οικειώσεως. Chryfoft. Hom. 39. in 1 Cor. Tom. III. p. 509. 1. 12. ed. Savil. διπλη ή το Σωτηρος βασίλεια· ή μεν προαιώνιος τα αρχή, εκ εχέσα, ἡ δὲ μετα τες αιώνας, αρχήν απο της οικονομίας λαμβάνεσαι. Id. T. v. p. 681. 1.10. |