same name in man. This valuable and most important work was often reprinted (Exeter, 1815, 8vo; London, 1821, 8vo; and in the Tracts of Angl. Fathers, ii, 225). He wrote also A Discourse concerning the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God (Lond. 1697, sm. 8vo) : — An A dmonition to the Dissenters (London, 1706, sm. 8vo) : — An Account of King James IPs Behavior to his Protes- tant Subjects of Irelaml, etc. (Lond. 1746, 8vo) : — A Vin- dication of the Rev. Dr. Henry Sacheverell, etc. [Anon.] (Lond. 1710, 8vo) ; etc. See Bibliographia Britannica ; Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary ; Cyclopwdia Bibliographlca, ii, 1730 ; Hook, Ecclesiastical Biography. vi, 45G ; English Cyclopcedia, s. v. ; and especially AUi- bone. Diet. Engl, and A m. A uth. ii, 1032. (J. N. P.)
King, "William, (2), a Scotch Presbj-terian minis- ter, was born in Tyrone, Ireland. He emigrated to America in 1830, and became pastor of a church at Nel- son, Canada West. After laboring there faithfully and earnestly for many years he removed to Carador, C. W., where he died, IMarch 13, 1859.
Kingdom of God or of Heaven (// fiamXilci Tov Btoij or ToJv ovpavCoi'). In the New Testament the phrases "kingdom of God" (Matt, vi, 33; Mark i, 14, 15; Luke iv, 43; vi, 20; John iii, 3, 5), "kingdom of Christ" (Matt, xiii, 41 ; xx, 21 ; Rev. i, 9), "kingdom of Christ and of God" (Eph. v, 5\ " kingdom of David," i. e. as the ancestor and type of the INIessiah (ilark xi, 10), " the kingdom" (Matt, viii, 12 ; xiii, 19 ; ix, 53), and "kingdom of heaven" (Matt, iii, 2; iv, 17; xiii, 41, 31, 33, 44, 47 ; 2 Tim. iv, 18), are all synonymous, and sig- nify the divine spiritucd kingdom, the glorious reign of the Messiah. The idea of this kingdom has its basis iu the prophecies of the Old Testament, where the coming of the Messiah and his triumphs are foretold (Psa. ii, 6- 12; ci, 1-7; Isa. ii, 1-4; Mic. iv, 1; Isa. xi, 1-10; Jer. xxiii, 5, G; xxxi, 31-34; xxxii, 37-44; xxxiii, 14-18; Ezek. xxxiv, 23-31 ; xxxvii, 24-28 ; Dan. ii, 44 ; vii, 14, 27 ; ix, 25, 27). In these passages the reign of the j\Ies- siah is figuratively described as a golden age, when the true religion, and with it the Jewish theocracy, should be re-established in more than pristine purity, and uni- versal peace and happiness prevail. All this was doubt- less to be understood in a spiritual sense; and so the devout Jews of our Saviour's time appear to have un- derstood it, as Zacharias, Simeon, Anna, and Joseph (Luke i, G7-79 ; ii, 25-30 ; xxiii, 50-51). But the Jews at large gave to these prophecies a temporal meaning, and expected a INIessiah who should come in the clouds of heaven, and, as king of the Jewish nation, restore the ancient religion and worship, reform the corrupt morals of the people, make expiation for their sins, free them from the yoke of foreign dominion, and at length reign over the whole earth in peace and glory (iMatt. v, 19; viii, 12 ; xviii, 1 ; xx, 21 ; Luke xvii, 20 ; xix, 11 ; Acts i, 6). This Jewish temporal sense appears to have been also held by the apostles before the daj' of Pentecost.
It has been wcU observed by Knobel, in his work On the Prophets, that "Jesus did not acknowledge himself called upon to fulfil those theocratic announcements which had an earthly political character, in the sense in which they were uttered; for his plan was spiritual and universal, neither including worldly interests, nor contracted within national and political limits. He gave, accordingl}', to all such announcements a higher and more general meaning, so as to realize them in accord- ance with such a scheme. Thus, 1. The prophets had announced that Jehovah would deliver his people from the poUtical calamities into which, through the con- quering might of their foes, they had been brought. This Jesus fulfilled, init in a higher sense. He beheld the Jewish and heathen world under the thraldom of error and of sin, in circumstances of moral calaniitv, and he regarded himself as sent to effect its dcUverance. In this sense he announced himself as the Redeemer, who had come to save the world, to destroy the works of the devil, to annihilate the powers of evil, and to bring men from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light.
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