He as God-man saith, Matth. 28. To me is given all power in heaven and on earth. And thus all the consequences for proving the earthly Monarchy of the Jewes are naught.
That the [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] the power our Saviour speakes of Matth. 28.18. was given to him as man, and not as God, (for so he had it from all eternity) interpreters agree. And what though all power in heaven and on earth was then given to Christ as man? What doth this make against my words, which affirme that Christ as man shall after the judgement of the dead, after all things are subdued unto him, surrender againe this power, (as having no further use of it,) and in the new Jerusalem, (not reigne as man, but) be himselfe subject to the Father? Or what doth it make a∣gainst Christs 1000 yeares reigne on earth, that he had then all power in heaven and on earth given unto him? unlesse it will follow from hence, that if he had been to reigne visibly on earth, he might, and would have done it at that time. But certainely this will not follow, for though our Saviour had then all power given him, yet he was toexercise it, to doe all that was to be done by it, in that order and manner which God had appoin∣ted