Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	forgive_v	name_n	trespass_n	2,415	5	10.9746	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79540	A Christian and brotherly exhortation to peace: directed unto the soverain states of England, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands. And to the people of both nations. Translated out of the French copie, sent by a lover of peace from beyond sea.	Lover of peace from beyond sea.	1653 (1653)	Wing C3938; Thomason E725_14; ESTC R206769	13,829	21

that there is not a wise man amongst you no not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren But brother goeth to law with brother Verse 7. Now therefore there is utterly a fault amongst you because ye go to law one with another Why do yet not rather take wrong Why do ye not rather suffer your selves to be defrauded Verse 8. Nay ye do wrong and defraud and that your brethren And again hearken what he saith in the Epistle to the Romans Chap. 12. Verse 9 10. Let Love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is good Be kindly affectionedone to another with brotherly love preferring one another If that be not enough Brethren behold the fervent prayer which his Master himself maketh to his Father and to our Father for your union before he died Joh. 17. Verse 11. Holy Father keep through thine own Name those whom thou hast given me that they may be one as we are one Verse 22. I have given them the glory which thou hast given me that they may be one as we are one Verse 23. I am in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me Truly if these words of Christ the well-beloved Son of God who hath purchased the Kingdome for you and will give it unto you cannot move you nor induce you to love those that are his and to forgive one anothers trespasses what may we hope from you in his Name We cannot but think upon the reproaches which he will make one day unto you if ye do continue to defile your hands with the blood of his children If you had eyes to see and ears to hear you would understand very well how much he is troubled at your quarreis Oh ye that divide his people are you not afraid lest he do destroy you as such as are appointed for destruction or lest he swallow you up in the Sea as he did Pharaoh that pursued them Do you think you can be united unto Christ without being united unto his members which you persecute What availeth your zeal and devotion your fastings and prayers with all the good Orders which you may establish amongst you to live according to the Will of God and to practise his holy Commandments if you cannot love your Brethren and forgive one anothers offences and if you persist in your resolutions to cut them off root and branch How can ye hope or believe that he will accept of your sacrifices or suffer them to ascend before his face How long will you that the sword shall devour you that may in all humane appearance restore peace unto jerusalem will you continue to seek its desolation Can you hope to be partakers of those blessings which the Lord promiseth to them that pray for its peace whilest you do depopulate and waste it Do you not know that you are shortly to be united unto those from whom you do separate your selves at present with an everlasting tie of love and concord and that it hath been the good pleasure of the Father to give you the Kingdome both to you and to them Luke 12.32 and that you shall be partakers of the same glory How can you then separate your selves from those whose members you are Have you no. Communion of the spirit and of Love with the other members of Christ Have you no zeal for the glory of the heavnly Father Have you no Charity to cherish and to comfort his Spouse and his children that groan for your divisions sake Shall the great King of peace have no children amongst you that dare open their mouths and that will labour and endeavour to quench these flames and to allay those stormes and passions which do disturb and hinder you from knowing your Brethren and shewing your duties unto them Must a poor dumb man strive to speak and to cry out from afar off to warn you of the danger which you throw your selves head long into and to conjure you in the name of Jesus Christ to give a stop to your distractions to make your complaints unto him and to submit your selves unto his Judgement which cannot but be rather most just and advantagious for both then to stay so long till he himself put his hand to the work and make you feel the effects of his Indignation for your goings astray and let you perish in your hard-heartednesse with them to whom you unite your selves and make peace O that ye could but make some reflexion upon these words which he hath pronounced with his sacred lips which you heard even now and prevent one another with cordiall condescensions or at least endeavour and try to beget a good understanding and imbrace one another to please him wherein we would be much more happy then if we had overcome our brethren Do you not know that he seeth you and that he doth sympathize with us in the evils we do one to another and that he himself heareth the stroakes and blowes we inflict Oh that these words might as well sound in your ears as your shots of Cannons do sound in his ears and that you could have him as well as St. Paul Acts 9. going to Damosous to persecute him how should you be able to bear these sharp reproaches without being moved thereat What are you doing children you that know me are you resolved to persecute me and to crucifie me afresh are you not my people do you not belong unto me as well the one as the other why do you strive to spill my blood and to make me suffer seeing you are nothing else but one stick one people and one flock in my hand to make use thereof for such things as I shall emploȳ you in I make no questiou but you would be ready to throw down your Armes and most heartily imbrace one another Certainly if you had appeased a little these troubles and distractions which do hinder you from hearing this sweet voice which your Brethren do hear and sigh for your deafnesse it would work more strongly upon your hearts then your ears Are you perswaded that if you should have lost all and left all these momentany things and worldly honours to your enemies themselves for his names sake that you should have lost any thing Do you not think he is sufficient and faith full enough to recompense and restore unto you a thousand fold and at last life everlasting Why then do you refuse to yield somewhat unto your Brethren and to his children for his own sake for the peace of his people sake for the honoru of his Names sake for the quiet of his Spouse sake to comfort your Mother which you afflict and groaneth for your dissentions and for the Interest sake you pretend unto his Inheritance in the glory and everlasting life which he hath prepared for you Let us turn aside