Whereas he hath positively warned them against any such arguings, by assuring them that this kingdom is his kingdom, and that it " is not of this world;" and therefore that no one of his subjects is lawgiver and judge over others of them, in matters relating to salvation, but he alone...

Nay, whoever hath an absolute Authority to interpret any written, or spoken Laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver, to all Intents and Purposes; and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them.

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Page 17 I say, if they have this power lodged with them, then the kingdom in which they rule is not the kingdom of Christ, but of themselves ; he doth not rule in it, but they : and, whether they happen to agree with him or to differ from him, as long as they are the lawgivers and judges, without any interposition from Christ, either to guide or correct their decisions, they are kings of this kingdom, and not Christ... Appears in 11 books from 1717-1991

Page 10 ... been so diversified by the various alterations it hath undergone, that it is almost impossible so much as to number up the many inconsistent images that have come, by daily additions, to be united together in it... Appears in 15 books from 1717-1974

Page 28 ... Conscience, or Eternal Salvation. And the more close and immediate this Regard to Him is, the more certainly and the more evidently true it is, that They are of his Kingdom. This may appear fully to their own Satisfaction, if They have recourse to Him himself, in the Gospel; if They think it a sufficient Authority that He hath declared the Conditions of their Salvation, and that No Man upon Earth hath any Authority to declare any other, or to add one tittle to them ; if They... Appears in 10 books from 1717-1978

Page 24 Christian, to enforce his doctrines or to back his spiritual authority; but, on the contrary, as plain a declaration as a few words can make, that his " kingdom is not of this world ; " — I say, when you see this from the whole tenor of the Gospel, so vastly opposite to many who take his name into their mouths, the question with you ought to be, whether he did not know the nature of his own kingdom, or church, better than any since his time ; whether you can suppose he... Appears in 18 books from 1717-1974

Page 24 Design; unless it could be compassed in quite a different way. And therefore, when You see Our Lord, in his methods, so far removed from Those of Many of his Disciples; when You read Nothing, in his Doctrine about his own Kingdom, of taking in the Concerns of this World, and mixing them with those of Eternity; no Commands that the Frowns and Discouragements of this present State should in any Case attend upon Conscience and Religion... Appears in 14 books from 1717-1974

Page 11 ... consequently so much defaced. And since the Image of His Kingdom, is That under which our Lord himself chose to represent it: We may be sure that, if we sincerely examine our Notion of his Church, by what He saith of his Kingdom, that it is not of this World, we shall exclude out of it, every thing that he would have excluded; and then, what remains will be true, pure, and uncorrupted. And what I have to say, in order to this, will be comprehended under Two General Heads. I. As the Church of... Appears in 9 books from 1717-1974

Page 18 ... a negligence of thought, let him but ask himself whether the church of Christ be the kingdom of Christ or not ; and if it be, whether this notion of it doth not absolutely exclude all other legislators... Appears in 25 books from 1717-2004

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