And therefore it is that the time of His preaching is often by himself called the “regeneration”; which is not properly a kingdom, and thereby a warrant to deny obedience to the magistrates that then were; for He commanded to obey those that sat then in Moses’ chair, and to pay tribute to Caesar, but only an earnest of the kingdom of God that was to come, to those to whom God had given the grace to be His disciples, and to believe in Him; for which cause the godly are said to be already in the “kingdom of grace,” as naturalized in that heavenly kingdom.