“Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.”
Ps. 2:6
“These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for He is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”
Rev. 17:14
“Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, ‘Thou sayest.'”
Mt. 27:11
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Subsections
Mediatorial Kingdom & Extent
Not All Christ’s Operations are Equally Theandric, Mt. 28:18
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Order of Contents
Believers as Kings
Mediatorial Kingdom: Forever? 1
Latin 5+
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Articles
1500’s
Bullinger, Henry – 7th Sermon, ‘Of Christ, King & Priest; of his Only & Everlasting Kingdom & Priesthood; and of the Name of a Christian’ in The Decades ed. Thomas Harding (Cambridge: Parker Society, 1850), vol. 3, 4th Decade, pp. 273-97 Bullinger does not mention Christ’s office of prophet.
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587), Apostles’ Creed
What is Christ’s Kingdom
I Believe in Christ our Lord
1. In what sense He is called ‘Lord’
2. For what causes He is our Lord
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1600’s
van Mastricht, Peter – Theoretical Practical Theology (2nd ed. 1698; RHB), vol. 4, pt. 1, bk. 5
ch. 8, ‘The Mediator as a King’ 237-68
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1700’s
à Brakel, Wilhelmus – ch. 21, ‘The Kingly Office of Jesus Christ’ in The Christian’s Reasonable Service, vols. 1 ed. Joel Beeke, trans. Bartel Elshout Buy (1700; RHB, 1992/1999), pp. 561-75
a Brakel (1635-1711) was a contemporary of Voet and Witsius and a major representative of the Dutch Further Reformation.
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1900’s
Berkhof, Louis – ‘The Kingly Office’ 12 paragraphs in Systematic Theology (1950)
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Quotes
John Duncan
“The Dust of the Earth is on the throne of the Majesty on High.”
“There was a load of sin on Him, but there is now a crown of glory on his head.”
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On Believers as Kings & Queens with Christ
Article
1500’s
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (d. 1583; Oxford, 1587), Of the Communion of the Faithful, or Christians, with Christ
4. What is the Kingdom of Christians
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Is Christ’s Mediatorial Kingdom Forever? No by its economy; Yes in its spiritual substance
Article
Rutherford, Samuel – end of Covenant of Life Opened
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Quote
George Gillespie
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Historical Theology
On the Post-Reformation
Muller, Richard – ‘Christ in the Eschaton: Calvin & Moltmann on the Duration of the Munus Regium [Kingly Office]’ (1981) 28 pp.
The modernist theologian, Moltmann, wrongly interpreted Calvin on 1 Cor. 15 to be saying that Christ’s mediatorial reign, and even the incarnation, would end at the Final Judgment.
Muller corrects this showing that Calvin held that while Christ as Mediator rules now mediately, He will then, in the next age, rule immediately, as his incarnation will be forever, and his mediatorial kingdom and intercession will be as well in its “efficacy and benefit for us”.
Note especially the Excursus at the end, “The duration of the munus regium in the theology of Calvin’s successors”. Muller surveys and/or references: Beza, Polanus, Ames, Walaeus, the Socinians (who denied its eternity), Mastricht, Riissen, Marck, Ridgley, Wendelin, Burmann & Owen.
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Latin
1500’s
Szegedin Pannonius, Stephan – ‘Christ the King & Priest, & of Christians’ & ‘Of the Kingdom of Christ’ in Common Places of Pure Theology, of God and Man, Explained in Continuous Tables and the Dogma of the Schools Illustrated (Basil, 1585/93), I. Of God, in General, An Annual of the Well-Done, Vast Things of God, pp. 96-97
Szegedin (1515-1572) also was known as Stephan Kis.
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1600’s
Keckermann, Bartholomaeus – ch. 5, ‘The Kingly Office of Christ’ in A System of Scriptural Theology Furnished in 3 Books (2nd ed. Hanau, 1607; 1610), bk. 3, pp. 358-70
Keckermann (1572-1608). See Joseph Freedman, ‘The Career and Writings of Bartholomew Keckermann (d. 1609)’ in American Philosophical Society, Vol. 141, No. 3 (Sep., 1997), pp. 305-364.
Tilen – 13. ‘The 4th Disputation, on the Office of Christ, which is on his kingdom’ in An Ordered Arrangement of Theological Disputations held in the Academy of Sedan (1607, 1611), vol. 2, pp. 121-28
Tilen (1563-1633)
Alsted, Johann Heinrich – ‘Of the Kingly Office of Christ: in which things does the kingdom of Christ consist?’ in Polemical Theology, Exhibiting the Principal Eternal Things of Religion in Navigating Controversies (Hanau, 1620; 1627), pt. 3, 2. An Examination of the Racovian [Socinian] Catechism, pp. 340-41
Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich – Thesis 6, ‘The Kingly Office of Christ’ in ch. 17, ‘Of the Species of the Office of Christ’ in Christian Theology (Hanau, 1634; 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1657), bk. 1, pp. 296-99
Wendelin (1584-1652)
Voet, Gisbert – Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 2 Abbr.
4. Of the Kingship of Christ
. Of Christ the Judge
“Whether Christ was a king when He began to be Mediator? It is affirmed.
Whether He was a king when He traversed in the earth? It is affirmed.
Whether Christ obtained to the king of the Jews by a hereditary, temporal right? It is affirmed with a distinction.
Whether He was finally made king at the time He ascended into Heaven? It is denied contra the Socinians.
Whether there is a twofold kingly power in Christ? It is affirmed.
Whether the kingdom of Christ the Mediator, or the economic kingdom, will be subordinated to the kingdom of the Father, or the natural kingdom of God? It is affirmed.
Whether kings of this world are subordinated to the kingdom of Christ? It is distinguished.
Whether He is a king according to both natures? It is affirmed.
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Whether it is a spiritual kingdom of Christ, or rather worldly? The former is affirmed.
Whether Christ’s kingdom is rightly distinguished between internal and external, and these two are separated after the departing of Christ out of the earth? The former is affirmed, the latter denied.
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Whether Christ’s kingdom is universal and through the whole world? It is affirmed.
Whether it extends to all creatures? It is affirmed.
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Whether the kingdom of Christ will endure in eternity? It is affirmed with a distinction.
What is to be said about the millenary reign of Christ and the error of the Chiliasts? It is explained.”
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