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Obj. HOw can the Kingdome of Christ be said to consist of men, when they belong to the Kingdome of Caesar, or the civill Magistrate?
Ans. Men may be in the world, and yet not of the world, as our* 1.1 Saviour affirmeth, where he saith, I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, (viz. his Disciples) and yet in the 16. ver: he professeth, that the said parties were not of the world; the di∣stinction then betwixt the Subjects of Christ, and them of Caesar must be this; that them of Christs Kingdome are in the world, but not of the world, as the other are.
Obj. One man cannot serve two Masters, and therefore not both Christ and Caesar.
Ans. Man is composed of two parts, viz. a Soule and a Body;* 1.2 which Soule or Spirit is that which Christ accepteth of as his Sub∣ject, and therefore it is distinguished from the externall part of man by these notions, viz. The inward man, the Spirituall man, the hidden man, &c. And the other part of man, viz. the visible part of man is termed, The outward man, the carnall man, the sonne of man, &c. Now this inward man, or Spirituall subject of Christ, being obedient to the Spirituall governance of Christ, (as that of the outward man, to the Politicall government of the* 1.3 Civill Magistrate) may be subject to both, yea and give unto both their just rights; yea I may safely say, that he whose Spirit, or inward man, is Christs loyall subject, wil also in his externall man, be the like to the Civill Magistrate, and so may (as our Sa∣viour commandeth) Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods. And contrariwise that out∣ward man, whose inward man is a subject to Satan (the Prince of this world) is the greatest enemy both to Christ, and to the Ci∣vill Magistrate, witnesse the Cavaliers of this Nation.