Two kingdoms?

This is a reaction to this post.

I think I disagree with your anthropology. Human nature is one, from two; human nature is not two. I do not exist in two kingdoms; I, who am from two natures, exist in one kingdom. Similarly, the Church on Earth is one kingdom, from two; not in two.

It seems that your understanding here makes me, and the Kingdom, into two.

"Man is always concerned with both, and thus he fashions representative governments for both. The magistracy rules the bodily realm, and the ministry rules the spiritual realm." (And elsewhere.)

And this is problematic because even in the Resurrection I will be from two. The visible/invisible distinction in this sense refers to something that shall exist even after the resurrection. If I am now in two kingdoms, I shall even then be in two kingdoms. And though we would not need a king with the sword, Christ, when ordering our bodies, would have a different office than Christ when ordering our souls. Which is nonsense.

It seems rather that you should say that man is one from two, and that the ministry, as those who hold the Word and Sacrament is able to penetrate directly into the heart, and thence onto the body; whereas the king, in his exercise of authority, works on the body, and thence on the heart. (Though that is not quite sufficient as the Word and Sacraments are all received bodily.)

But if that is the case, the magistrate has, like the Pastors, a ministry within the Church (though, of course, a distinct ministry from them). Moreover, if he is to be responsible for maintaining visible order within the Church (as he was in the ancient world, and is in England) he has a position of ministry with in the Church as a deacon. Which should mean that the ministers can, in extreme circumstances, defrock him, and then excommunicate him if he refuses to abdicate.

Moreover, the soul is to rule the body either as a king his peers, or as a king his subjects, depending on which aspect of the body is referred to. Which means that the king should be subject to the ministers, and not the Church itself under the king, for She is from two, and if the Church is under the king, the Spirit of the Church is under the king.