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
A35833	The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1260; ESTC R27296	24,653	32

to be natural affectionated one towards another and they walk contrary causing poor people to pay to maintain them in pride and high ranks in the earth who can scarce get bread for their bellies and cloaths for their backs yet they force them to pay to them beeing void of all natural affections and they are truce-breakers breaking all Bonds and Covenants if they can get more mony in another place Thus they shew forth to all the world that they are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God have a form of godliness in words but deny the power thereof from such turn away for of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sin and divers lusts these Scriptures are fulfilled in your teachers every one hath his particular house to creep into where none must come but themselves or whom they please which is contrary to the practice of Christ or any that he sent forth they went through the Countries Towns Cities Villages according as they were guided by the spirit of God to declare what he gave them to speak and your Teachers lead silly women captives laden with sin and led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth do they not tel you to look for Christs coming in such observations as they set up which is nothing but the invention of their brains for Christ tels you The Kingdom of God comes not with observations but is within you But many of them that deny that the light in your conscience which makes manifest the evil of your hearts is the Kingdom of God calling it the light of a corrupt conscience so shuts the Kingdom of heaven against men and wil neither enter in themselves to be guided by the pure light of the Kingdom of Christ within them nor suffer them that are entring in to enter as the Scribes and Pharisees did now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these men resist the truth men of corrupt minds reprobates concerning the faith but they shall proceed no further for their folly shal be made manifest to all men as their also was and no man shal buy their merchandize any more All you inslaved Captives in the Kingdom of Babylon why will you lay out your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfies not hearken diligently unto Jesus Chrst the light that lets you see the evil of your hearts to be guided by it and you shal eat that which is good Incline your ears saith Christ and come unto me hear and your souls shal live and I wil make an everlasting covenant with you even the sure mercies of David mind the call of a powerful and tender Father in the Lord Jesus who calls Come forth of Babylon my people and touch no unclean thing and I wil receive you wil be a Father unto you and ye shal be my sons and daughters saith the Lord God Almighty Friends prize your time sleight not the day of the Lords mercy for he waits to be gracious and saith I stretch forth my arm all the day long to a back-sliding and gain-saying people Every one mind your conditions deal justly with your own hearts see what your hearts hath fellowship with and what guides your minds for the Kingdom of Christ is within you it is not in observations as your Teachers tels you for they deceive you therefore Christ forewarned us for looking forth at those which would come in the latter daies that would say Loe here is Christ lo there is Christ as it is in these our daies some say Lo here is Christ in the Presbyterian practice the Independents say He is there and the Anabaptists say Loe he is here But friends mind what Christ saith unto you Beleeve them not look not forth the Kingdom of Christ is not in any of those nor in any other outward observations but be awarned the Kingdom of Christ is in you and that is the light which lets you see the evil of your hearts and Christ compares it to a grain of Mustard seed the least of all seeds it grows up above all other herbs and becomes a tree that the Fowls of the ayr lodges therein and he compares it to a little leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of meal and it leavened the whole lump These are earthly parables and figures which Christ laies down speaking to the earthly and carnal heart of man that he may read his condition within Therefore despise not the day of smal things but mind the counsel of the Lord Jesus the little light that shines in thy dark heart look upon the figures the parables the little leaven which is hid in three measures of meal it changes the whole lump into the nature of it self so the little light that shines in thy dark heart is the powerful word of faith which was in the beginning by which all things were created and without him was nothing made this word is life and the life is the light of men and light shines in darkness and the darkness comprehends it not this light is the word of faith the Apostle exhorted to take heed unto Say not in thy heart who shall ascend up to Heaven to fetch Christ down or down into the deep to fetch him up the word is nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth and this is the word of faith which we preach the unction of the holy one given of the Father whereby we need not to teach one another but as the anointing teacheth us which is truth and no lie which is the sure word of Prophesie whereunto ye do wel to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts All people return within give up your selves freely to bee guided by that light that discovers to you the evil of your hearts and none be discouraged because you see an evil heart but prize the love of God that discovers it to you and whatever the light makes manifest to you to be evil wait on the Lord for power and he wil give thee power to obey and in being faithful in a little more wil be communicated from the Lord so wil the righteous law be set up into your hearts that wil cry through your earthly and carnal hearts for righteousness and judgment and so will bring you to an account for every idle word and all deeds done in the body Look up unto the Lord against whom you have sinned and he wil arm you with power to what he laies upon you with patience to undergo his wil until all the powers of the earth in you be famished and slain under his righteous judgments then wil judgment be brought forth unto victory that you can no longer live