Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	enter_v	pharisee_n	scribe_n	1,718	5	10.1839	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10222	The unprofitable servants talent put into the bank, in sure hope of acceptance by a merciful Lord; or, The mean mans gift towards the helping forward of the Lords great work. With an information and message from the Lord, to all sorts of people concerned herein; written in plain simplicity.		1656 (1656)	Wing U92B; ESTC R185872	13,250	16

prove you by them there will you put your selves upon the tryal there if you do you will be found too short yet of the pattern a great deal for its more pure then you can with those Eyes that yet you see by discover or declare to others Consider friends whether the Baptism and Preaching of John were from heaven or of men He was the first New Testament Gospel Preacher and sanctified from the womb and not in a School or Parsonage but few of you Ministers appear to be so after many years standing in your Office and he came neither eating nor drinking daintily nor in costly Apparel but most of you if you can get them any way come in all these to the height of them and I fear affect them more then the Gospel John came preaching and baptizing unto repentance but few of you declare what it is and I am sure those I see act not aright in their places and many preach contrary and cannot declare whether faith or repentance is first to be acted by their Converts And John said That the Kingdom of God was at hand but you say It is already come and yet you cannot declare it at least you do not and when it will come you know not if that be not it that you preach to poor blinde people which is nothing like it and yet you would have them rest in it where no true rest is to be found for nothing its else that you declare to them but to hear you and to perform some such fervices as you can teach them all which are meer formalities and Christ said of John That he was a burning and shining light and which of you are so or declare what it is to be such a one and John did not take his first visions of Christ to be the full manifestation of him to rest in but inquired further of him as one unsatisfied therewith of his fulness but most of you stay in the beginning of light and labour not to get towards perfection but rather decline for ought that can be discerned and so shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against your selves and others And John was a plain and full rebuker of sin in all of or by such onely as are enlightned called renewed and taught of the Lord alone far above all mens teachings and such onely are Christs true Ministers and to be owned And now O ye Priests I call ye to speak once more in your own defence but either speak right words or else be silent for discerning spirits are come forth and shew if you can whether Melchizedeck or any of the whole Priesthoods order forenamed were called in by men or had either Parish Parsonage or any such limitted order or place as yours or that their tythes and wages were as yours are but contrary for they were free offerings as the yearly feasts were and in them the fatherlesse the stranger the widow and the Levite did eat and rejoyce together before the Lord There was neither tythe Calf nor Goose brought to the Parsonage nor Vicarage houses neither had the mistresse nor her maids authority to gather tythe eggs or apples of the poor and needy That that was tythed in Israel was brought in freely to worship the Lord with and by it But ye O Priests oppresse the poor the widdow and others by yours and dishonour God thereby Are you or any other able to make it appear that those are right Laws Statutes Judgements and Ordinances that yours are established and required by suitable to the right Government of a Christian Nation that are taught of the Lord I know the contrary O blinde leaders of the blinde will you both fall into the ditch stop speedily left you perish and get better Guides for light is broken forth shut not your eyes against it but behold it and walk in it whilst it appears lest darknesse come speedily and then you may so stumble and fall that you can never rise again O consider this you that have long forgotten the Lord lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you because of the slighting of his calls when he would have healed you But I tell you plainly that Gospel Ministers should first be Elders in the faith before they enter into that high Office and not Novices in the salvation of God should thrust themselves into it for none can discern it but by the Holy Ghost given into them neither can any minister that to others which they have not received for the carnal minde is in enmity against the spiritual gifts of God and Christ neither can they know them nor preach them really to others and if they be not first reconciled in themselves how can they show the reconciliation of the soul into Christs pure nature unto others to lead them up unto it or the knowledge of it that they may labour to grow forward to be wrought into it fully that so they may become holy as the Lord is holy and to be meek and lowly as Christ is that so they may finde rest to their souls and for the gaining this they must first be humble in the sense of their own blindenesse and then the promise is from the Lord that he will teach them and give them grace and glory and such own for right Gospel Ministers and none else for this is the Lords way of exalting men into Gospel gifts of grace Are ours such in publique places I fear few of them Ask them further Have ye a true call from the Lord to that Office and they will say Yea But if you will consider them by what is before written it will appear contrary as also by the testimony of many other Scriptures and therefore let them know this for themselves that the Councel of the Lord shall stand and although Circumcision be commanded by the Lord yet when that that is figured by it is come it must cease without a written command and then they that are circumcised afterwards can have no profit by Christ Take heed what you do the Lord is not mocked what ye sow that ye must reap friends I bear record to you that you have a little zeal and a little strength but its ready to dye and it is not according to right knowledge else you never would hold up depend upon nor own such for right Gospel ways as you do Consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding For if you persist thus the Lord will suddenly destroy you as he did your Predecessors for certainly he is come forth to judge the World in righteousness and a short worke will he make upon the earth for by his own arm will he bring in salvation for surely our hopes by men of might is low whilst we hear of and behold such a wicked crue of Lawyers in our Parliament who will neither enter into Christ's Kingdome nor suffer others to go in that would but as this startled Scribes and Pharisees so