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	samuel_n	saul_n	1,780	5	9.7755	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01452	a pearle of price or, The best purchase For which the spirituall marchant Ieweller selleth all his temporalls. By Samuel Gardiner, Batchellor of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1600 (1600)	STC 11578; ESTC S118892	98,748	224

is chiefly to be regarded And because that Cain was carelesse of the manner the Lord looked not to the matter of his sacrifice If thou wouldest bring thy actions to perfection let God be the end of them The Mathematicians hold that the circular figure is the perfect figure because that in a circle the beginning and the end do iump and meet together we shal be perfit christians if God the first cause and beginning of all of whom Rom. 12. in whom and by whom are all shal be the consummation and end of all if we shall set this watchword before all our doings whether we eate or drinke or whatsoeuer else we do we do all to the glory of God Haue an eie therefore to the end of euery thing that thou goest about that thou maist not do amisse Artificers by a line and leaden plummet A similitude do measure and suruey the proportion of their worke our leuell and square must be this heauenly word so as our life being conformed to this rule it is euen in euery part and of perfit dimensions God expresly willeth that all valuation shall be according to the shekell of the sanctuary Leuitic 27 The loue of God and the glory of his name is this shekell and weight that weigheth all our actions so that wanting this they are reiected as the gold that wanteth weight and as the corne that wanteth measure They may like the smoake climb towards heauen but like the smoak they shal vanish away and neuer come to heauen Whatsoeuer action thou giuest thy self vnto Psal 37 whether to praying fasting giuing receiuing suffering weigh aright with this shekell of the sanctuary in what spirit purpose and deuotion thou takest it in hand For be thou wel assured if it tendeth not to his glory but be without that it shall also be without his reward A fearefull woe shall be thundred out against them Math. 23 as we reade in the like case was denounced by Christ against the Scribes and Pharises As no man might enter into the court of King Ahashuerosh ●●est 4 that was cloathed in sackcloath so no man not cloathed with a wedding garment that is with Gods loue may presse into Gods presence Christ many times in his actions Mat. 22 did eleuate and lift vp his eies to heauen Iohn 11 to teach vs in our actons and all our intentions to looke vp to heauen Mat. 6 for the eye is taken for the intention according to that our Sauiour Christ saith Luke 11 if thine eye be simple that is thy end and intention of thine action set before thine eye These two I hold as good conclusions First that all our sorrowes for our sinnes though our contrition were as great as the sea if it be only for the feare of hell and not for Gods loue and the loue of heauen can do vs no good A similitude For as the confession of a traitor is constrained who for feare of the racke and not for any dutifull affection to his prince bewrayeth and bewaileth his mischeuous designements and this confession and lamentation turneth not to comfort but to his certaine destruction so such contrition as commeth by coaction maketh not vnto saluation but vnto endles perdition For in sin there are alwaies these two things chiefly to be cōsidered The first is the euil thou hast wrought against God The second is the euil that thou hast brought vpon thy selfe which is eternal damnation Now if thou beest grieued for thine owne mishap only and not for the high and mighty indignity offered vnto God is it not manifest that thou wouldest only escape that which maketh against thee not caring for that which maketh against God and therfore thy repentance is repelled of God This is made euident by a paire of examples of Saul and Dauid they were both of them Kings both of them sinned 1 Sam 15. 2 Sam. 12 both of them were reprooued and both of them repented and yet the Lord who accepteth no persons accepteth Dauids Acts. 10. excepteth iustly against Sauls repentance for it was defectiue and faulty in the end and it was not done aright there was as great oddes and difference as might be betweene their intents and purposes of repentance Dauid repenting that he had lost God and Saul repenting only because he had lost his kingdome For he openeth his mind plainly enough by his wordes to Samuel 2. Sam. 15 saying Honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel So Saul might haue bin safe and setled in his kingdome and men might do him worship little did Saul esteeme how his GOD was woorshipped For this cause Esau went without his blessing Heb. 12 though he sought it with teares and extreame passions because they proceeded not from sincere affections The loue of God which should haue made them forcible was wanting to them The second proposition is as plain as this that is that although we doe conforme our selues to the Canons of his word and doe his commandements honor his name auoid prophane swearing sanctifie his Sabbaoth and come as nigh to the perfect obedience of his law as possibly we can if with this Merchant we renounce all our worldly both profits and pleasures and haue not the intention of this Merchant in our minds to illustrate Gods glorie and let our end be God God will not blesse or fauour these our doings or giue them enteraunce and passage vnto him For as before in sinne so in euery good worke there are two chiefe respects The one is the honour which redoundeth vnto God The second is the profit that returneth to our selues If therfore in a good action we rather haue an eie to our priuate aduantage then to the publike praise of God we discouer therby our worldly minds too much that gold more then God the world aboue the word is esteemed of vs. Wherefore let vs looke that as we serue him so he will serue vs if we serue him with the worst and with the last he will serue vs with the dregges and bottome of the cup of his wrath Psal 73 and will make vs sucke them vp The end before God is of more valew then either the greatnesse or excellency of the action for euery action shall be weighed by the intention and respected and recompenced according to the end This the subtile serpent knoweth well wherfore as he broght Adam to another tree Gen. 1 that he might not taste of the tree of life so he bringeth vs to any other end that we might not follow the true end which God hath commanded vs to set before our eies in al our enterprises When he cannot strip vs of such excellent works as the Lord worketh in vs he depraueth thē by disgracing our intentions in them suggesting that they were wrought to some priuate worldly end For thus he sophisticated and glosed with God vpon the inclination of Iob