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Objection. DOe you thinke that temporall powers will have their pe∣riods in this Age?
Ans. Yea as sure as the Scriptures are true, which* 1.1 doe verifie it, witnesse the Apostle Paul, 1 Cor. 15. 24. who saith, that Christ shall put downe all rule, and all authority,
and power, &c. in which words, if temporall power be not inclu∣ded, I desire to know what is meant thereby.
Obj. I confesse it would puzzle me to contradict it, but the Pro∣phet Isaiah speaking of the times of the Gospel, saith, that then, Kings should be nursing Fathers, and Queenes nursing Mothers to the Church.
Ans. I presume you know the property of Nurses, they being only to nourish Children in their minority; but when they be growne to capacity, their Parents taketh them home, and then the Nurse is out of imployment, and so consequently her office ceaseth. So likewise so soone as them Prophesies of Daniel, and John, are fulfilled, viz. as soone as the God of Heaven shall set up his Kingdome, which shall never be destroyed, Dan. 2. 44. as al∣so, that the Kingdome of this world shall become the Kingdome of our Lord, and his Christ, Rev.. 11. 15. then shall them Nur∣sing Fathers, and Nursing Mothers you speake of, be also put out of office, viz. Their Kingdomes shall be broken in pieces, and con∣sumed, Dan. 2. 24. and so consequently the power, and authori∣ty exercised in them; for the cause being taken away, the effect must needs cease.
The office of Magistrates to be desolved.