Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	bless_v	father_n	inherit_v	1,819	5	9.6520	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61501	Trias sacra, a second ternary of sermons preached being the last (and best) monuments that are likely to be made publique of that most learned, pious and eminent Dr. Richard Stuart ...	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.	1659 (1659)	Wing S5528; ESTC R34608	46,631	180

for his contentment was his riches This man abounds in all things and yet is therefore still poor because he 's not Satisfied We may all of us behold mine Apostle and from him take a pattern how to rectify our affections he desires not Gifts but Fruits and delights more in the Philippians Faith than in their liberality This likewise shews the Crookednesse of those perverse Christians who preferre their own profit before the Salvation of their brethren and would more delight to see the Philippians become their Tributaries than Christs Disciples He that rules a Family must hence learn to take more pleasure that his servants are good than that they are profitable for if they labour their Masters encrease either for hope of reward onely or for fear of offence this is but eye-service neither Fruit nor Gift unlesse perhaps ye account that given which ye pay for But when they become Trusty for conscience sake when they are industrious and truly diligent not as in the sight of man but God then are their labours Fruits and a Christian Master must more joy to see his Servants Faith than his own Commodity That your Actions must be Fruits not Gifts onely I have shewed unto you in my First part from the Nature of the things themselves in this Second part I have shewed it from the Authority of the Apostles choice I must reiterate my exhortation once more Bring forth Fruits if not for these reasons yet for your own commodity Remember that great Audit which you must one day make with the Lord of Heaven then Fruits will abound to your account which I made my last part and must now be handled That may abound to your account There 's a great correspondency between the written and the eternal word between Christ and the Scriptures They have both of them humbled themselves for us He to the death of the Crosse This to the dulnesse of our capacity For how often does not the Scripture speak of God as of a mortal man It gives him both eyes and eares and Feet and hands in some places it supposes him an Husbandman in others a Shepheard some places make him a man of War and clothe him with harnesse to the battel and in my Text he is an Auditor The Lord hath sought a man after his own heart saith the Scripture of David first of Kings at the 13th chapt. how Sought God is every where and may spare that enquirie what needs he to seek who sees all at once Non quod nesciat ubi sit quaerit sed per hominem more hominum loquitur quia sic loquendo nos quaerit as Saint Austin speaks in the 17. of the City of God at the 5th chap. he did not seek David because he was ignorant where he was but he so speaks because he seeks us for we are then found when we understand him That we might become learned God is said to have Books too The Books were opened saith Saint Iohn Revel. 20th that is the particular Testimonies of every ones private conscience And again another Book was opened that is the Sacred register of Gods eternal Decree My Text adds to this library for it implyes Books too namely Books of Account So Zanchius unfolds the Metaphor hic Deo tribuit librum the Apostle faith he in this place attributes to God the use of a Book wherein there stands the formal draught of an exact account Here he writes his expenses namely the things w●…i●…h he hath given us and here are his receipts too that is the duties which we have returned to him again here he notes our Trespasses or Debts and here likewise he sets down our weeping payment our tears those fruits of Faith which so farr abound unto our accounts that they turn our revenging creditour into a loving Father Put my Tears into thy Bottle are they not noted in thy Book Saith David a weeper in the 56th Psalm at the 8th verse for so runs the original it is a word varyed from {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Sepher which signifies a Book He that hath mercy upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord Prov. 19th the Lord borrows our works of Charity and puts them into his receipts See then Beloved do not such Fruits abound to our advantage they make our God become our Debtour and our Accounts must then needs be easy when we our selves are become the Creditors who gives a Disciple a cup of cold water only in the name of a Disciple verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward saith our Saviour Mat. the 10th at the last verse The thing here to be given is scarce worth the valuing and yet if this water be Fruit if it issues as well from his heart that gives it as from the Fountain from whence it is drawn how doth it abound to our account It both cancels our debts and entitles us to a farther Benefit it gives us not a Freedom only but a reward Are our works then of so high a price can they both discharge the debts we owe and yet leave us so rich that we may purchase too Indeed our Saviour seems to intimate it Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you before the world began for your Fruits have abounded to your accounts I hungred and yee gave me meat I thirsted and yee gave me drink c. Here 's no mention of offences at all it seems then our works shall both Satisfie those debts and also purchase a Kingdom for us But lest with that purple whore we become drunk with a conceit or pride of Merits we must understand that our accounts are to passe before such an Auditor whose only Mercy is our satisfaction Indeed in his Reckonings our Fruits shall passe for current coyn but yet 't is his bounty that gives them value A Creditour if he please may accept of Brasse for Gold and of Iron instead of Silver though all our righteousness be as a stayned cloth yet God in mercy may both pardon and crown our works and when he so deals with us we are not beholding to the worth of our coyn but unto the bounty of our Creditour not unto the merit of our desert but unto the mercy of our Redeemer Come ye Blessed of my Father {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} So the Greek hath it possess ye the Kingdome by title of Inheritance Mark Beloved we are heirs not purchasers and we obtain the Kingdom not by our own desert but by Gods free adoption and yet that all the world might know his sentence to be equal he adds for I hungred and yee gave me meat I thirsted and yee gave me to drink your Fruits make it manifest that you are the Sons of me your Father and thus do they abound to your accounts The Civilians distinguish between Dominium Possessio between the right of Title and the form of taking possession You know a man may have Title