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22 which They bore, and the Favours They had in their hands, to bring Subjects into his Kingdom; this had been an Expeditious and an effectual way, according to the Conduct of some of his professed Followers, to have had a Glorious and Extensive Kingdom, or Church. But this was not his 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; No Rules against the Enquiry of All His Subjects into his Original Message from Heaven; no Orders for the kind and charitable force of Penalties, or Capital Punishments, to make Men think and chuse aright; no Calling upon the secular Arm, whenever the Magistrate should become Christian, to inforce his Doctrines, or