3. In the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Jesus our Saviour, a Galilean, began to preach; the son, as was supposed, of Joseph; declaring to the people of the Jews, that the kingdom of God expected by them was now come, and that himself was a _king_, that is to say, the Christ; explaining the _law_, choosing _twelve apostles_ and _seventy disciples_, after the number of the _princes_ of the tribes, and seventy elders (according to the pattern of Moses) to the ministry; _teaching the way of salvation_ by himself and them; purging the temple, doing great signs, and fulfilling all those things which the prophets had foretold of Christ to come. That this man, hated of the Pharisees, whose false doctrine and hypocritical sanctity he had reproved; and by their means, of the people accused of unlawful seeking for the kingdom, and crucified; was the true _Christ_ and _king_ promised by God, and sent from his Father to renew the _new covenant_ between them and God; both the evangelists do show, describing his genealogy, nativity, life, doctrine, death, and resurrection; and by comparing the things which he did with those which were foretold of him, all Christians do consent to. [Sidenote: That the kingdom of God by the new covenant, was not the kingdom of Christ, as Christ, but as God.] 4. Now from this, that _Christ_ was sent from God his Father to make a _covenant_ between him and the people, it is manifest, that though Christ were equal to his Father according to his nature, yet was he inferior according to the right of the kingdom. For this office, to speak properly, was not that of a king, but of a viceroy; such as Moses’ government was; for the kingdom was not his, but his _Father’s_. Which Christ himself signified when he was baptized as a subject, and openly professed when he taught his disciples to pray, _Our Father, thy kingdom come_, &c.: and when he said (Matth. xxvi. 29): _I will not drink of the blood of the grape, until that day when I shall drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father._ And St. Paul (1 Cor. xv. 22-24): _As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive; but every man in his own order; Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ’s, who believed in his coming; then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even his Father._ The same notwithstanding is also called the _kingdom of Christ_: for both the mother of the sons of Zebedee petitioned Christ, saying (Matth. xx. 21): _Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, the other on thy left, in thy kingdom_: and the thief on the cross (Luke xxiii. 42): _Lord remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom_: and St. Paul (Ephes. v. 5): _For this know ye, that no whoremonger_, &c. _shall enter into the kingdom of God, and of Christ_: and elsewhere (2 Tim. iv. 1): _I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and dead at his appearing, and his kingdom_,