Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	heaven_n	pharisee_n	scribe_n	2,390	5	10.4944	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28899	A defence of the Scriptures, and the Holy Spirit speaking in them, as the chiefe iudge of controversies of faith ... with a vindication of that honour due to magistrates, ministers, and others ... in a relation of a disputation at Chesterfield in the county of Darby, between some ministers of the Gospell and James Naylor, an erring Quaker ... : with some animadversions upon a lying relation of that disputation, published by Iames Nayler / by Immanuel Bourne ...	Bourne, Immanuel, 1590-1672.	1656 (1656)	Wing B3852; ESTC R23281	45,977	64

have no light in them then all men have not a light within them sufficient to direct them to attaine salvation But there are some men that have no light in them witness the Prophet Isaiah chap. 8.20 To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this rule it is because there is no light in them Therefore all men have not a light within them sufficient to direct them to attaine salvation Naylers Answer James Nayler vapoured and said that place made most against us But he gave no answer to shew how that place did make against us but cryed out all are enlightned by Christ and that light of Christ is in them all lyars lyars all are enlightned Thus in a proud contemptuous manner did Nayler behave himselfe and as his manner was when hee could not answer turned aside and talked to those that were about him and at last affirmed againe that all had a light within them sufficient to guide them to attaine salvation Naylers Argument because Christ said to the Pharisees Luke 17.21 The Kingdome of God is within you in you Pharisees and therefore in all and so the Kingdome of God being in all all are sufficiently enlightned to direct them to attaine salvation Mr Bournes Answer To which Answer was given to this effect That the Kingdome of God is taken diversly in the holy Scriptures 1. For the Kingdome of Gods power which is Gods soveraignty over all the world and this Kingdome of God is in every creature and in and over every man in the world he sets up and puls downe 1 Sam. 2.6 7 8 c. Dan. 4.30 c. kils and maketh alive at his pleasure and ruleth and over-ruleth all when and how he will and this Kingdome of God was in the Pharisees as in all men whatsoever 2. The Kingdome of God is taken for the Kingdome of Gods Grace and this diversly taken also First for the outward administration of the comming and Kingdome of the Messiah Christ Jesus in the Gospell of which the Pharisees questioned Christ in that place Luke 17. Luke 17.20 Gen. 49.10 demanding when the Kingdome of God should come that is the Kingdome of the Messiah which was prophecied and promised should come Psal 2. Psal 45.6 7. Luke 2.25 26. and which the Saints and people of God did expect and waite for And John the Baptist the forerunner of Christ told the people this Kingdome was at hand This Kingdome is called the Kingdome of Heaven Mat. 3.2 Mat. 13.24 44. Acts 1.3 and it is taken for the Gospel and Gospel Administrations and this Kingdome and comming of Christ this King not only the Scribes and Pharisees Luke 24.21 but some of the Disciples did think should come in outward pompe and power to deliver the Jewes from the tyranny of the Romans under whom they were tributaries But Christ giveth them answer in that 20 verse Luke 17 20. The Kingdome of Christ the Messiah which they enquired after commeth not with observation or with outward pompe but saith Christ the Kingdome of God is within you not individually or personally as if the Kingdome of heaven the Gospell and Christ the Messiah had been in every one of them particularly or in every Pharisee but collectively or as they were a company of Pharisees or people of the Jewes The Kingdome of God is within you or rather amongst you as the Greek word is well translated in the margin of our Bibles in that place And thus Expositors agree ye seeke the Messiah as if hee were absent when hee is in the middest of you Beza upon the Text. P●scator on that place Thus Passor Iex con c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in medio vestri intra gentem vestram within your nation saith Beza And Piscator The Kingdome of God is in the middest of you in the bosome of your Nation The Kingdome of God is within you understand it not as every one is looked upon by and in himselfe but as one body of many people collected or joined together in one body or Nation And the Kingdome of God in this sence was in and amongst the Pharisees and people to whom Christ did preach at that time Againe the Kingdome of Grace is taken for the gifts and Graces of the Kingdome or which Christ the King giveth to his subjects and servants and by his Spirit worketh in them as Knowledge Faith Love Righteousness Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost and such like inward spirituall Riches and Graces of the spirit by which God doth rule and reigne in the heats of his children and this Kingdome is in Gods Elect his chosen and faithfull and called ones Rev. 17.14 not only amongst them but in them but this Kingdome or these graces of the Kingdome of Christ the Messiah and Christs Spirit was not in the Pharisees to whom Christ did preach though it was amongst them in such as were true beleevers Gods faithfull servants This Answer was delivered far shorter but to this effect and purpose Naylers Reply But Nayler according to his accustomed manner cried out lyars lyars it is false Christ speaketh of the Kingdome of Grace and that was in the Pharisees and so in all and all have a light in them to which they may look as sufficient to guide them to Salvation or to that effect Mr Bournes Reply Mr Bourne did Reply Iohn 3.1 Iohn 19.38 39 that some of the Pharisees may be were beleevers as Nicodemus who came to Jesus by night and was at cost with Joseph of Arimathea at the buriall of Christ who was a Disciple though secretly for feare of the Jewes And if this Kingdome of Grace was in any of the Pharisees they must be such as were beleevers for other wise in unbeleevers and wicked Pharisees who kept men to their power from confessing of Christ to be the Messiah Iohn 12.42 in them Christ was not nor the Kingdome nor the graces of Christs Kingdome For in unbeleevers where sinne ruleth and reigneth in their mortall bodies and they obey it in the lusts thereof there or in their soules Rom. 6.12 16. the Kingdome of Grace is not for Christ and sinne cannot reign both together in one soule This answer was shorter likewise but to this intent Naylers Reply But Nayler would not yield the Question for all this but told the people the Kingdome of God was in the Pharisees and we were lyars that denied it Mr Maud●sl●y's Question Mr Maudesley if my memory did not faile me or some one neer him asked Nayler what Kingdome that was which Christ spake of after his resurrection Acts 1. Acts. 1.3 He was seen of them forty daies speaking of the things pertaining to the Kingdome of God Naylers Reply Nayler did not answer what that Kingdome was but said Christ was not seene after his Ascension In which Nayler did mistake Answer for it was not after Christs Ascension but after his