king at all. We talk of Christ being a "spiritual" king, and then we
say that that merely means that He is king of Christians' hearts.
And when anyone asks what that means, it comes out, that all we mean
is, that Christ has a very great influence over the hearts of
believing Christians--when He can obtain it; or else that it means
that He is king of a very small number of people called the elect,
whom He has chosen out, but that He has absolutely nothing to do with
the whole rest of the world. And then, when anyone stands up with
the Bible in his hand, and says, in the plain words of Scripture:
"Christ is not only the king of believers, He is the king of the
whole earth; the king of the clouds and the thunder, the king of the
land and the cattle, and the trees, and the corn, and to whomsoever
He will He giveth them. Christ is not only the king of believers--He
is the king of all--the king of the wicked, of the heathen, of those
who do not believe Him, who never heard of Him. Christ is not only
the king of a few individual persons, one here and one there in every
parish, but He is the king of every nation. He is the king of
England, by the grace of God, just as much as Queen Victoria is, and
ten thousand times more." If any man talks in this way, people
stare--think him an enthusiast--ask him what new doctrine this is,
and call his words unscriptural, just because they come out of
Scripture and not out of men's perversions and twistings of
Scripture. Nevertheless Christ is King; really and truly King of
Kings and Lord of Lords; and He will make men know it. What He was,
that He is and ever will be; there is no change in Him; His kingdom
is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion endureth throughout all
ages, and woe unto those, small or great, who rebel against Him!

But what sort of a king is He? He is a king of law, and order, and
justice. He is not selfish, fanciful, self-willed. He said himself