Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	david_n	king_n	tribe_n	2,061	5	9.5458	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79552	Saint Chrysostome his Parænesis, or Admonition wherein hee recalls Theodorus the fallen. Or generally an exhortation for desperate sinners. / Translated by the Lord Viscount Grandison prisoner in the Tower.; Parænesis. English	John Chrysostum, Saint, d. 407.; Grandison, William Villiers, Viscount, 1614-1643.	1654 (1654)	Wing C3980; Thomason E1531_2; ESTC R208923	51,851	141

and scourges to no afflictions abroad nor strife at hope no prisons or Irons no hazard of shipwrack no violence of theeves or thy own familiarsnares no hunger cold nor nakednesse neither to scorching fire And alas wilt thou dread my exhortations I impose no bitter task on thee but on the contrary earnestly desire thee to set thy self free from a most tyrannicall captivity And when thou art ransom'd from this bondage of thy sinns to the happy liberty thou didst once enjoy thy eyes opened to behold what true bliss is Thou wilt confesse the merited paines of a dissolute life the unquiet and tormenting afflictions of a mind given over to carnall lusts and what the happinesse and content of such a godly life is as thou didst formerly leade It were no greater wonder that an Athiest who believ'd no resurrection from the dead should lie lull'd in his lethargick bestialitie without any sence of his condition But that believers that Christians who look after expect and foresee what is decreed both to the good and bad for them to live thus miserably unconcern'd in their own calamities nothing at all awakened with the remembrance of their future hopes or fears is most heavy dul and sencelesse stupidity When with their lipps men shall professe themselves believers but look into their waies they are by many degrees worse then infidells and commit greater abhomination then they For amongst the very heathens themselves there cannot be greater monsters in sinns then are some Christians Nay what is more which should severely advise us to amend amongst them there are often eminent examples of lives led morally so well that they are fit to be look'd upon for our instruction with what shame then shall we cover our faces when the actions of heathens and aliens to God may be precepts Merchants who have suffer'd great damages and losses fall not from their hopes but try the Seas again though there be the same danger of stormes and shipwrack which they know their greatest skill and care cannot sometimes avoid And shall we base unworthy cowards that suffer by sin and wickedness not dare the recovery of our lost soules nor attempt our future preservation though wee fall into dangerous lapses being wee know we are forbid to despair in the greatest extremities When indeed no evill has power over us unlesse we willingly our selves consent unto it And why remain we then so insensibly stupid why use we not our hands in this combat but lie as if they were tyed behind us or what is worse if they are employ'd it is against us our selves what madnesse is this that men entring the lists to fight their adversaries turne all their blowes upon themselves The Divell lies in ambush for us diligently observing the advantages hee has over humane weaknesse to make us destroy our selves Wee must have courage then with undaunted spirits to meet the cunning assaltant on every attempt against us or with our own negligence and carelesse fears he ruins us for ever As thou art fallen Theodorus so likewise fell blessed David he to adultery added the heynous murther of innocent Uriah But what follow'd did he lie under the burthen of his iniquities did not he attempt to rise again but overcome by Satan lay prostrate to his fury No! he couragiously resumes his arms against his enemy and fought him with so prevailing courage that his children after him were the trophies of his victory and receiv'd the benefits of his conquest For when Solomon his Sonn's heart was turn'd after other Gods by means of his wives 1 Kings 11. When he went after Ashtoreth the Goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon c. When he had with all his abhominations provok'd the Lord it is recorded in holy writ that for Davids sake God rent not his Kingdome from him ver. 11. I will surely rend thy Kingdome from thee and will give it to thy servant Notwithstanding in thy daies I will not do it for David thy fathers sake but I will rend it out of the hands of thy Son Howbeit I will not rend away all thy Kingdome but will give one tribe to thy Son for David my servants sake So likewise in the daies of Hezekias though he himself were a just man does the Lord alledge the same cause of his mercy to Jerusalem 2 Kings 19. 34. I will defend this City to save it for mine own sake and for David my servants sake Thus did the Lord continue the remembrance of Davids hearty penitence to shew us how effectually true repentance finds accesse to the tribunall of Heaven This servant of the Loreds disputed not against his redemption had he had the desperate opinion thou seemest to be of now that hee could not be reconcil'd to God He would have said perhaps God has done me mighty honors he has chosen me into the number of his Prophets has given me Empire and Dominion over my brethren and deliver'd me out of mighty dangers and how can I hope for his mercy whom after so manifold blessings I have thus infinitely offended Had the Prophet permitted such desperate conceptions to overcome him he had not onely excluded himselfe from Gods favour in that his sad condition at the present but had blotted out the remembrance of all his former life As the wounds of the body neglected grow altogether incurable so those of the soul if we seek not for their remedie lapse us into eternall perdition yet such is our folly that in the least distempers of our bodies we refuse no paines no troubles but submit to any tortures art can prescribe for our recovery but obstinately werefuse the medicins of our sick souls nay though wee are so ill that we are beyond all cure with what a longing desire we are attentive to what the Physician speakes in the last extreames willing to hear of comfort But in the disease of our soules wee despair and languish before we see reason for it since the most dangerous wounds there are not incurable And where the nature of the sicknesse is really desperate wee continue our hopes but miserably despaire where there is no need And where we are absolutely forbid it we are willfully diffident putting on the vanity of a confidence when 't is ridiculous and beyond all hopes but such is our naturall fond inclination to our bodies that wee look on their decayes with horror and affrightment and in the hazards of our pretious soules are sottishly insensible Me thinks in such a state those words of Christ may awake our heavy dull spirits Mat. 10. 28. Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill soul but rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Hell If these be not prevalent with thee to perswade thee as yet to return to thy integrity I shall labour in anguish and affliction of soul for thy deferring so long so acceptable and necessary a task as thy reforming