Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	blood_n	flesh_n	inherit_v	5,014	5	11.6402	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45322	Susurrium cum Deo soliloqvies, or, Holy self-conferences of the devout soul upon sundry choice occasions with humble addresses to the throne of grace : together with The souls farwell to earth and approaches to heaven / by Jos. Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. Soules farewell to earth and approaches to heaven.	1651 (1651)	Wing H420; ESTC R2803	81,778	407

disappointment windy proffers mocking thee with suddain retractions bitter pils in sugar poison in a golden cup It shew'd thee perhaps stately Palaces but stuft with cares faire and populous Cities but full of toile and tumult flourishing Churches but annoyed with Schisme and Sacrilege rich Treasures but kept by ill spirits pleasing beauties but baited with temptation glorious titles but surcharged with Pride goodly semblances with rotten in-sides in short Death disguised with pleasures and profits If therefore heretofore thy unexperience have suffered thy fethers to be belimed with these earthly intanglements yet now that thou hast happily cast those plumes and quit thy selfe of these miserable incombrances thou maiest soare aloft above the sphere of Mortality and be stil towring up towards thine heaven And as those that have ascended to the top of some Athos or Tenariffe see all things below them in the Vallies small and scarce in their diminution discernable so shall all earthly objects in thy spirituall exaltation seem unto thee either thou shalt not see them at all or at least so lessened as that they have to thee quite lost all the proportion of their former Dimensions SECT. II. IT will not be long O my soul ere thou shalt absolutely leave the world in the place of thine habitation being carried up by the blessed Angels to thy thy rest and glory but in the meane time thou must resolve to leave it in thy thoughts and affections thou maist have power over these even before the hour of thy separation and these rightly disposed have power to exempt thee before-hand from the interests of this inferiour World and to advance thine approaches to that World of the blessed Whiles thou art confined to this Clay there is naturally a luggage of Carnality that hangs heavy upon thee and swayes thee downe to the earth not suffering thee to mount upward to that blisse whereto thou aspirest this must bee shaken off if thou wouldst attaine to any capacity of happiness Even in this sense Flesh and Bloud cannot inherit the Kingdome of God It behoves thee to be so far as this composition wil admit spirituallized ere thou canst hope to attaine to any degree of blessednesse Thy conjunction with the body doth necessarily clog thee with an irrationall part which will unavoidably force upon thee some operations of its owne and thy senses will be interposing themselves in all thy intellectuall imployments profering thee the service of their guidance in all thy proceedings but if thou lov'st eternity of blessednesse shake them off as importunate sutors gather up thy selfe into thine owne regenerated powers and doe thy worke without and above them It is enough that thou hast at first taken some hint from them of what concernes thee as for the rest cast them off as unnecessary and impertinent the prosecution whereof is too high and too internall for them to intermeddle with thou hast now divine and heavenly things in chase whereof there cannot be the least sent in any of these earthly faculties Devest thy selfe therefore what thou possibly maiest of all materiality both of objects and apprehensions and let thy pure renewed and illuminated intellect work only upon matter spirituall and celestiall And above all propose unto thy selfe and dwell upon that purest perfectest simplest blessedest Object the glorious and incomprehensible Deity there thou shalt finde more than enough to take up thy thoughts to all eternity Be thou O my soule ever swallowed up in the consideration of that infinite self-being Essence whom all created spirits are not capable sufficiently to admire Behold and never cease wondering at the Majesty of his Glory Thy bodily eies dazle at the sight of the Sunne but if there were as many Sunnes as there are stars in the Firmament of Heaven their united splendour were but darkenesse to their All-glorious Creator Thou canst not yet hope to see him as he is but loe thou beholdest where he dwels in light inaccessible the sight of whose very outward verge is enough to put thee into a perpetuall extasie It is not for thee as yet to strive to enter within the vaile Thine eies may not be free where the Angels hide their faces What thou wantst in sight O my soule supply in wonder Never any mortall man O God durst sue to see thy face save that one intire servant of thine whose face thy Conference had made shining and radiant but even he though inured to thy presence was not capable to behold such glory and live Far be it from me O Lord to presume so high Onely let me see thee as thou hast bidden me and but so as not to behold thee after thy gracious revelation were my sinne Let mee see even in this distance some glimmering of thy divine Power Wisdom Justice Mercy Truth Providence and let me bless and adore thee in what I see SECT. III. OH the infinitenesse of thine Almighty power which thou not hast but art beyond the possibility of all limitations of objects or thoughts In us poor finite Creatures our power comes short of our will many things we fain would doe but cannot and great pitty it were that there should not bee such a restraint upon our unruly appetites which would otherwise worke out the destruction both of others and our selves But O God thy Power is beyond thy Will Thou canst doe more than thou wilt Thou couldst have made more worlds when thou madst this one And even this one which thou hast made Lord how glorious a one it is Lo there needs no other demonstration of thine omnipotence Oh what an heaven is this which thou hast canopied over our heads how immensely capacious how admirably beautifull how bestudded with goodly Globes of Light Some one whereof hath in it such unspeakable glory as that there have not wanted nations and those not of the savagest which have mis-worship'd it for their God And if thou hadst made but one of these in thy firmament thy workmanship had been above our wonder for even this had surpassed the whole frame of this lower world but now as their quality strives with their greatnesse so their magnitude strives with their number which of them shall more magnifie the praise of their Almighty Creator and these three are no less than matched by the constant regularity of the perpetuall motion of those mighty bodies Which having walked their daily rounds about the World above this five thousand six hundred and sixty yeares yet are so ordered by thy inviolable Decree that they have not varied one inch from their appointed Line but keepe their due course and just distance each from other although not fixed in any solid Orbe but moving singly in a thin and yeelding skie to the very same point whence they set forth And if the bodily and visible part of thine heavenly Hoast O God be thus unconceivably glorious where shall we finde room to wonder at those spirituall and living powers which inhabite those celestiall Mansions