Aphorismes of Christian religion: or, a verie compendious abridgement of M. I. Calvins Institutions set forth in short sentences methodically by M. I. Piscator: and now Englished according to the authors third and last edition, by H. Holland.

IX.

The kingdom of Christ beginneth in this life, and is called the kingdome of grace, and it shalbe perfected in the life to come, which is called the kingdome of glorie. The kingdome of grace is that spirituall kingdome a 1.1wherin Christ ruleth the harts of his elect by his word and spirite. And this kingdome he administred in the old Testament vnto his elect, by Priestes and Prophets, & in the beginning of the new Testament by Iohn Baptist, and himselfe with his Disciples: But at the last he so∣lemnely begā to erect the same in the day ofb 1.2 Pentecost, whē he sent the holy Ghost to his holy Apostles, that they might go preach the Gospell to all nations. So then he hath euer continued his kingdome on earth, & shall continue it vntill he returne to iudgemēt, at which time he shalbe ru∣ler in the c 1.3 middest of his enemies: whom he plagueth now and then, and destroieth,

the last he cast them downe, & make them his d 1.4 footestoole in his most glorious e 1.5 cō∣ming, at which he shall free all his faith∣full members from all their afflictions, & cary them with him f 1.6 to heauen, and make them partakers for euer of his heauenly kingdome, which then shalbe the king∣dome of glorie, when all the Saints shalbe translated to heauen, beautified and ador∣ned in their soules with wisedome and ho∣linesse, in their bodies with great excel∣lency and immortality, to be with Christ, in inspeakable ioyes and glorie for euer and euer.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Ioh. 18.37.
• b 1.2

  Act. 2.
• c 1.3

  Psal. 110.2.
• d 1.4

  Ibid. 1.
• e 1.5

  2. Thes. 2.8
• f 1.6

  1. Thess. 4.17.