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
B08852	Mount Sion, or, The priviledge and practice of the saints opened and applied by that faithful dispenser of the mysteries of Christ, Walter Cradock.	Cradock, Walter, 1606?-1659.	1673 (1673)	Wing C6763A; ESTC R174372	123,568	246

thou art a publick man soul and body flesh and bone all that is in thee and all that comes from thee shall die This is that great Curse that God laid on him a Curse of a great extent Therefore I say whatsoever now ariseth from the sons of Adam that springs from Old Adam be it good or evil it is condemned to die it must die it cannot please God As Adam when he had eaten the forbidden fruit the Lord set an Angel with a Sword to keep the Garden that he should come in no more Just so now since Adams fall the Lord hath set a Sword as it were to keep men from all the Principles of Adam that those things shall never please God any more Or I may say of it as Joshua speaks of Jericho when he had pulled down and destroyed it Cursed be the man that buildeth this City any more So when God pulled down Adam for sin the Lord laid that Curse upon him that he should never be a blessing that way any more God would never look on him or any thing that should come from him any more God would bethink himself of another way but that way he would not meddle with But now this is our fault we are still going to build Jericho again we are every man more apt to righteousness then to sin such a righteousness as it is we are apt to go and build up the ruines of Old Adam when we go about the service of God and to do any thing for him Or as the people of Israel Deut. 1. God bids them Arise and go into Canaan and then they would not but by and by they would go and then God tells them they should never go So the time was that we might have gone the way of Old Adam when God made him righteous if we had continued so it had been well and the more we had endeavoured to be righteous that way the more blessed we had been But now we are fallen and God hath cursed Adam to die now any one that goes that way is cursed that goes about to repair those old ruines no saith God do not now anger me in seeking to be holy in that way as Old Adam was We must labour now to go a new way and get the New Adam Jesus Christ into our souls This is the reason why as it is clear in 1 Cor. 15. men must die why godly men must die as well as the wicked It is appointed to all men to die Why so The reason is this Because God in Paradise condemned old Adam wholly to die therefore Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdome of God no piece of old Adam therefore he being a publick person and we in him that Curse must be fulfilled and we must die All that belongs to old Adam must die one time or other Nolens volens Therefore as we bear the Image of old Adam though we have some beginnings of new Adam yet because we have the disposition of old Adam I speak not of sin but of natural Adam we are earthly as Adam was therefore we must lay down this flesh and body because of that great Curse in Paradise that Adam should die and all that are of him Quest But you will say Why then doth not corruption that is a part of old Adam die in the wicked in Hell You say whole Adam corrupt Adam and natural Adam must die Now the wicked in Hell they have sin and corruption world without end for Cain is a Murtherer and Judas is a Traytor to this time Answ It is true that corrupt Adam in the Saints must die but that comes not by the curse but it is by Christ and is a blessing and that corrupt Adam sinful Adam lives for ever in them in Hell it is a part of the Curse for to live in sin is to die properly Now in that we shall have this flesh and blood dissolved and shall have natural wisdome and the like all dashed out therein we are common with them that is of the Curse though God after by an after-game as we may speak with reverence turned it to a blessing But for the dying of corruption in us that is the blessing of Jesus Christ and no curse It is a curse to live in sin therefore though Adam be wholly to dye yet the wicked continue in sin World without end even in Hell I mean there are the sins of the heart at the least And in those places of the New Testament I conceive the holy Ghost alludes to this as that in Rom. 8. They that walk after the flesh shall dye Why doth he not say the plague of God shall come on them but they shall dye It is as if he had said doe you not remember that God threatened a curse in Paradise to flesh and he that walks after that shall dye for God hath said Flesh and Adam shall dye And so Rom. 7. Who shall deliver me from this body of death that is from this body that God hath condemned to dye Therefore I say whatsoever spirngs in us and comes from us from old Adam it is a dead thing that God cursed even in paradice and therfore cannot be acceptable to him Take the best piece of old Adam and offer it to God and it is as that strange fire that Nadab and Abihu offered it cannot please God Let me give you one chief instance that makes my heart bleed when I think of it That thing that you call Divinity or those that you call Divines they are good words of themselves for John is called the Divine but that which you call Divinity which is the great Idol of the World it is nothing but old Adam a kind of godliness learned in a naturall way a man learned after the old Adam as we learn Logick or other things in the Universities and such a one comes and scatters this among people and this you call Divinity and he is a Divine and yet this is abominable to God And that is the reason why there are many Divines that preach excellently and yet God curseth it Why It is old Adams wisedome and invention and brave parts but God curseth the soule he curseth that Fig tree that it shall bring forth no more O Beloved that we would not suffer our selves as Children I had almost said as fooles to be carried on wheeling in a Profession of Religion and to think it enough to carry it plausibly in duties in observing Fast-dayes and dayes of Humiliation c. But that thou and I may be content to let all the Professors in the Town to go before us that way let them be more gallant Professors in outward performances in all they do let it be thy care and mine to glean the Spirit of God after them let people say there is such a man made such a brave piece of work and such a man prayed excellent well and prayed so long let us pass by these things and if I