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
A87175	Christ's first sermon, or, The absolute necessity, gospel duty, and Christian practice of repentance, opened and applied, by a godly, able, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ. ; Wherein is discovered, what repentance is, as also the great necessity thereof to salvation: with the great folly and desperate madness of all those that delay and put off repentance unto a sick bed, or old age. ; Together with the great benefit, joy, and comfort that shall be to the souls of all those that timely and truly repent.	Hart, John, D.D.	1663 (1663)	Wing H937; ESTC R177838	21,802	46

sin O but the latter end of these men is worse then their beginning How many wicked wretches are there that live as if they had made a covenant with death and hell and were at an agréement with the grave who had rather hazard their souls then leave their sins who as if there were neither heaven nor hell run on from one sin to another Come say they we will fetch wine fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant But Isa 56.12 Wo unto them saith the Prophet they have rewarded evil to themselves How little do these men think that God will one day wound the hairy scalp of such as go on in sin and that tribulation and wrath indignation anguish shall be upon every soul that doth evi Rom. 2.9 Let men slight repentance never so much a time will come when they shal repent but that too late even in hell fire for ever For sin must be repented of if not on earth yet in hell and if you will not loath your companions in sin here you shal loath them in hell hereafter you pot-companions and your harlot companions shall loath one another in Hell then these bloody wounds shall bleed which you have given your souls in the days of your sollity and pride and in the times of your desperate impieties when nothing but wrath and horrour of conscience shall appear before you then these swéet morsels of sin which have been sweet as honey to your lustful appetites shall be vomited up as the bitterest and loathsomest things in the world Consider this all ye that forget God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you Psal 50 22. Be willing to forsake your sins for sin and the soul must part or else hel and the soul shal meet together The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the Nations that forget God Psalm 9.17 O that you would seriously lay these things to heart and now even now in this your day that ye would know the things that belong unto your everlasting peace To day if you will hear my voice saith God in the 95. Psalm harden not your heart Slight not scorn not resist not the good word of God that invites you to repentance but break off your sins by repentance and turn to God in righteousness And now for the second sort and they are such as think they need no repentance And they are either such as are morally civil and honest before men or else formal and hypocritical professors who seem to be and are not who profess God with their lips but deny him in their lives O they have no need of repentance they are no drunkards nor swearers nor such like God I thank thee said the proud Pharisee I am not as other men are extortioners unjust Luke 18.11 These are such as profess God and know much of the mind of God and therefore have no need of repentance they are guilty of no sins to repent of But of these it may be said as Peter said of Elimas the sorcerer Act. 13.10 That they are full of all subtlety and enemies to all righteousness who never yet know what sin meant For they that think they have no sins left to repent of it s a cleer argument that they never yet truly repented themselves of any one sin at all but that they are still in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity For repentance is a continued art and a grace that must have its daily operation as faith and love must continue so must repentance when once the rocky heart of a sinner is smitten by God the water of repentance will continually flow sincere repentants cannot content themselves with one art or two of repentance but they must daily renew their repentance for sin will renew so must repentance renewed sins must have renewed Repentance till we have done sinning and that will not be till we have done living we must not have done repenting if there be a leak in the ship the water must be pumpt out else the ship is in danger of sinking we are leaking vessels all of us yea the best of us sin leaks in daily and is renewed daily and there must be the pump of repentance to carry it out daily else our souls will be in danger of sinking And for the other sort who think they need no repentance they are pure moral honest men who live in a course of civility and take their penny to be as white as any others these are as good as the best and therefore have no need to be any better they are not desperately wicked as many are they are no blasphemers nor drunkards they go to Church and give every man his due and are loving to their neighbors and what needs any more It s true these things are necessary are required in a Christian but yet civility without sanctify at the best is but gilded Atheism morality and seeming vertues are but gilded sins and glistering abominations the Lord seeth many a rotten base stinking heart under a civil coat It civility and morality would have served the turn then the Pharisees would have gone to heaven before any other they were civilly honest they were no swearers nor drunkards they paid tythes and gave alms and prayed often and carried themselves so exact in the world that it was thought that if but two men in the world should go to heaven a Scribe should be one and a Pharisee the other But what saith Christ Mat. 5.20 Except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall not enter into the kingdom if heaven And yet their righteousness far exceeded the righteousness of all our moral honest men Let a man be never so honest in outward appearance let his carriage and behavior be never so specious and plausible in the eyes of the world let him be never so exact ano just in his dealings with men yet if he be not renewed in the spirit of his mind he is never the better for this If he be not a sanctified Christian the word of truth never as yet came home to his soul in the power of it he is still in the state of nature and without God and as yet far from repentance and salvation And then there is a third sort of impenitents and they are such as are convinced of the necessity of repentance but they do not think it a time now to repent they believe they must repent but all in good time there 's no haste of it yet it will be time enough hereafter at the hour of death when age and sickness is upon them and they think it a thing of nothing to repent they can do it when they list it s done with a wet finger there needs no more but to say Lord have mercy upon me when they are going out of the world this is the general