Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	devil_n	divide_v	satan_n	2,318	5	9.3446	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12708	A short treatise, very comfortable for all those Christians that be troubled and disquieted in theyr consciences with the sight of their owne infirmities wherein is shevved hovv such may in their owne selues finde whereby to assure them of their free election, effectuall vocation, and iustification.	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1580 (1580)	STC 23025; ESTC S102432	22,600	64

the spirite that resisteth and stri●eth with the flesh there is sufficient cause of assured comforte againe vnlesse tho● dare sayd o● thinke that the Diuet can putt● God to flight make him altes his purpose whiche once to surmise is blasphemy● And this is gotten also that in the regenerate man there being as wel fleshe as spirite the fruites of the fleshe being as they be the it followeth not there is in me doubting and sins and infirmities that desire Gods wrath and therfore I haue no fayth and godlynesse accepted and approued of God in Christ Iesus for thoughe the former be found in the flesh as they haue bin and be in all fleshe in some measure the later is found may be founde in the newe and inner man whose properties are cōtrarie to the properties of the other amōgst which faith with diuerse fruites thereof are reckned Gal. 5. verse 22. 23. those things obtained already let vs then nowe consider whither it be true the there be in you this battel begun that God hath made you a fielde for these two might●● Captains the spirit and the fleshe to fight a combat togither in That the one is ther namely the flesh you graunte but that the other is yet come the spirite you meane you deny What do you thinke that any man will fight with himselfe wil Sathā then thinke you striue against himselfe if you thinke that it maye so be Christie Luke ●● hath taught you the Sathan is wiser thā so taking it for a thing the could not but be granted the Sathan would not resist himselfe or striue with himselfe therefore proueth the accusation of bys casting out of Diuels by the power of Sathan to be rediculous and flāderous saying If Sathā be deuided against him self how shal hys kingdome stād wherfore for as much as you féele in your selues a misliking of infidelitie or doubting of your saluation a grief for it an earnest desire to be rid of it and withal féele a grief for your sinnes ioyned with a lothing of them and an earnest desire to cease from sinning I woulde aske you from whence you thinke all this cōmes from the same fountaine trow you from whence the former that is the matter of your sorrow cōmes if you thinke so I reply with Iames wordes Cap. 3. verse 11. 12. Doth a fountain send forth at one place swéete water and bitter can the fig trée bring forth ob●tes either a vine figs yea wyth Christ Math. 7. verse 16. Do men gather Grapes of Thornes or figs of thistles Is it possible then that these things shold come from the flesh where there dwels no good thing Rom. 7. Can the blacke Moore change hys skynne or the Leoperd hys spottes Ierem. 1● 22 then maye this be Nay these be fruites quyte contrary to the fruites of the flesh as it is well knowen and therfore they come from the spirite for these two and their fruites be contrary the one to the other Gal. 5. therfore as the fyndyng of doubting of sinnes in your selfe bée sure argumentes that the fleshe is in the fielde so be these as certaine arguments the the spirit is come hath ioyned battel Further your confessed loue to Gods truth and the professors therof your loue to godlines for it own sake mislike of sin not in worldly respects but euen bycause it is sin youre crying vnto God in your griefe and heauinesse of soule your comfortes then and in the o●te vse of the worde your hope of Gods goodnesse in the ende towardes you strengthned by the experience of hys goodnesse towardes you hitherto be euen so many moste excellent seales and assurances vnto you euen from God that you are his chosen iustified and sanctified childe and that therefore you haue his spirite dwelling in you to war and to ouercom the flesh to your eternal comfort O but yet in al this I haue yet no faith Why saist thou so Is it not written Rom. 8. as manye as haue the spirite of God be the sonnes of God and can anye be the soune of God wythoute Faith therefore in that thou haste the spirite dwelling in thée it is certayne thou haste faith in some measure Yea but I féele it not but rather the contrary and that in great measure yet being deceyued thou féelest a thing in the striuing againste infidelitie misliking it that is Faith for as vertue is resisted by his contrary vice so this foule vice of Infidelitie is withstoode by hys contrary vertue which is faith And it is writtē how shal they pray to him in whom they haue not beléeued Rom. 10.14 of then as earnestly you haue called vpon God in Christes name so manye argumentes haue you of faith in hym And howe coulde you haue had at anye time suche comfort in praying and consolation in the doctrine of the Gospel without faith For if you haue no faith in Christ then neither hathe hys grace any accesse to you to comforte you nor you to it thereby to take comforte for you know he that is withoute Faith is withoute Christe and he that is without Christe hath God not his comforter but his confounder and therefore those comfortes and consolations that you haue hadde muste remaine wyth you as sure euidences that by Faith you haue Christ dwelling in you And thoughe you féele not these comfortes still shal you therefore conclude that you haue no faith The woman with childe though she féele not the childe alwayes stirre yet bicause she hath sometime felt it she comforteth hir selfe that she is with childe you knowe she is with childe a good while before she can sensibly féele it moue and at the first shée féeleth it but weakely yea after she hathe felt it strongly some tune she féeleth it not againe a great whyle when she doeth in muche weakenesse sometimes in comparison of the former and yet for all this hathe in the ende a happy trauell so Faith is not felt to moue strongly as soone as it is bred and when it beginneth once it continueth not alwayes alike motions It is wyth Faith and withal other the graces of the spirit as it is with the Sunne which sometime setteth sometime ryseth sometime shyueth sometime is couered with cloudes or shadowed from vs by thicke and soggey mystes arising out of the earth for euen so sometime these séeme to be sette and gone downe in vs but when the morning comes they arise againe sometyme they are couered from our eyes by suche mists and cloudes that arise out of the fleshe that wée cannot espye them but yet for all this as he reasoneth ilfauouredly and vntruely that saith the Sunne cannot be séene nowe for clouds therefore it is not in the firmament so he that sayeth I can not sée and perceiue Faith and the spirite in me for the fruites of the fleshe therefore they be not in mée Be not therefore discouraged thoughe thou synde a