Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-03

/ Dam ii: A, that it should be sssetup,
at some time, then future. And if'that
promise has since been fulfilled, it is
] in vain for US still to expect its full
fIlment: g for what a man seeth, why
doth he yet. hope for?" Neither, il
that kingdom is already set up, are
we to expect it TO be set up the second
time: for when It's set up, it "shall
never be destroyed" but "sTANDj
FoR EVER Our Lord taught his
disciples to @pray, saying, Thy
kingdom come begin, or arriue, as.
4 the word imports: and we have no
ieyidence that the use, of this prayer
was intended to be confined to the
Apostolic age; or TO be limited at all,
Except by The end Of time. On the
CONTRARY, the evidence appears con-
elusive, thatit was designed to be
limited only by that event, when we
shall "receive the promise" and no
more ssloek for new heavens and a
new earth, wherein dwelleth right
! eousness," when only it will be ful-
filled; since they were instructed to
add in the same connection, "thy
! IsUiH be done IN carth as 1t IS IN heaUen:"
as though anticipating the consum-
: nation of both petitions, at the same
: time. s~'se ID Gsf.s
\ There is, and from the nature of
hthe case must be, a definite time
| when every kingdom comes, begins,
or is set up. No crown is assumed
gradually, or by degrees. And 1.-THE
t heir, as long as he is a child, differ
!. eth nothing. from a servant, though
5 he be lord OF all" The present heir
: to the English throne, is yet known
2 only as a Prince not as an actual
t King: g but is under tutors and gov
-lernors until the time appointed to
n receive the crown and sceptre. Our
S Lord, in his first advent, did moi
b come as a King, to enter upon the
e promised inheritance of the throne
e of his father David, but as a son, a
y servant, to do his Fathers will; to
: labor, and suffer, and die.--Heb. x
n f5-9; Ps. XII: 6-S. And that he
: fulfilled this mission, is represented
!? as the reason why the kingdom i
IS promised him; not as taking thc
n Ekingdom.-Ps.xlv 6,7; Isa. lii: | |
!. IL; Phil. ii: Ill. He didnot com,
1t to establish a temporal kingdom; 70
'r he said, my kingdomis not Of TIN
A. wolld." The crown of Israel wa
f; offered him; nay, sought to be forces
;" upon him: and because he rejecte'
at lit, the Jews rejected him. Thel
" prophets had foretold his coming, i
" the character of a servant; and sec
e, ondIy, in that Of a king and in som
or instances, as in Isa. xl: 10, in tn
as same connection. And it seems the
in had COMPOUNDED the one event wit
A the other. And, as it was most cor
n genial to their natural feelings, espt
%, cially in the absence Of true faitl
ch to contemplate him rather in tt
We great and glorious Being TO reigl
in than in that of a servant, TO be cd
se spised and rejected OF men," it
in not strange that, in thus dwellir
ed upon the interesting theme, they 10
MT. sight of the humiliation Of the tina
rst of sorrows,n In the resplendent ma
his esty Of 1.-THE King in his beauty"
on Neither did he come to establi
IA, a spiritual kingdom, or a dispens
nd ton Of grace: for such kingdo
iii: had already been in operation 70
I'VE thousand years. by faith Alb
md offered unto God more excelle
one sacrifice than Cain" And Paul te
Ugh titles concerning the "great cloud
is witnesses" mentioned in the II
his chapter of his epistle to the Hebrew
its s'who through faith" wrought su
IN wonders, aud triumphed even
lify death, "not accepting deliverane
and that they might obtain better re
lse, direction" that ssthese all, hayi
obtained good report through fai
up received not the promise: God ha
n a ing provided some better thing
lfh- US, that they without Us should
e it be made perfect This cleai
e it proves the mediatorial kingdom
ms extend at least from Abel to the Ell
- when these ALL not g a0ithout u
,uay shall g be made perfect" receive
J the promise of "a better resurrection
as the Inheritance of "a better count
true that is, an heavenly, :. and the XII
title dom and dominion, and the gre
}, or ness Of the kingdom under the VIII
D. tINlr -, frI1