Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	lord_n	sceptre_n	2,040	5	10.9794	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61251	A vindication of the divine perfections illustrating the glory of God in them, by reason and revelation: methodically digested into several meditations. By a person of honour.	Stair, James Dalrymple, Viscount of, 1619-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5181; ESTC R221836	207,616	368

which all his Perfections are displayed and manifested It is Omniscience and infinite Wisdom in the Contrivance of the World and of all that was to occur in it unto Eternity His Omnipotence in bringing all his Purposes to pass His Goodness that all he did and was to do is very good and nothing he made is without some Perfection for it self and Usefulness for some other Creature and that even from the evil Actions of Men he taketh occasion to increase the Exercise of his Goodness Bounty and Mercy His Justice Truth and Faithfulness are exercised upon all his Rational Creatures who only are capable of them and his most eminent Goodness in that Resemblance he gave them of his own Perfections and in those Principles wherewith he hath endued them beside his Image congruous to their Natures but not perfectly correspondent to his own to whom none of his Creatures can be like but with infinite Unlikeness Yet with that real tho imperfect Likeness of him his Reasonable Creatures were originally formed whereby he made them all capable of Blessedness and by Resemblance thereof to conceive Thoughts of his own Blessedness in being the only pure Spirit self-existent everlasting self-sufficient independent free unchangeable in all his Perfections Purposes and Performance of them fully delighting in himself and thereby infinitely blessed The Dominion of God comprehends his Dominion of Property and his Dominion of Soveraignty By the former he is Lord of all his Creatures by the latter he is Sovereign Ruler of all his Rational Creatures and so is King Law-giver and Ruler of the whole World There is a clear and known difference between Dominion of Things and a Dominion over Persons The Dominion of Things is a Right and Power to dispose of them at Pleasure without any Restraint This Right is founded in their Creation and Preservation for he that gave Being and that freely might give it with what Perfections he pleased and might at full Arbitrament annihilate or alter whatever he gave and in that Consideration even his Rational Creatures are part of his Property more at his disposal than the Clay is at the disposal of the Potter who can but mould and varnish his Clay and may mar it at his Pleasure but could neither give it its Being and Capacities nor can take them from it In this Relation there can be no Obligement or Debt from God to any Creature and it is by this Dominion that he hath stated all his Rational Creatures in their different Degrees not only of the Kinds but of the Individuals No other account ought to be inquired of the different degrees of Knowledg Wisdom Power Beauty Health Dexterity Length of Days Riches Pleasure or Honour tho these may be used as Means of Justice Truth Faithfulness and Mercy and as the Means of Government yet may they be absolutely without respect to these and it can hardly be discerned when they are otherwise and therefore in them all things befal alike to all and no Man can judg Love or Hatred of God from any thing that is so before him Some Men have thought they magnified God by magnifying this as the only Dominion of God and that there is no other distinct Dominion of Persons which would altogether make void the Justice Truth and Faithfulness of God which are no less essential to God and much more glorious than his Right of Disposal or Property A Proprietor in making use of his Goods doth not govern them no not in the ordering of his Beasts but where-ever Government is there must be Law Liberty Rewards and Punishments by the Government of Persons only can there be a Kingdom He that had the Property of a whole Country could be Lord of it tho there were not a Man on it but himself but he could not be King of it God takes to himself the Title of King in a more proper Sense and it is so acknowledged by all his holy Creatures He is called the King of the whole Earth of all the World The Lord has prepared his Throne in the Heavens and his Kingdom ruleth over all He is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth they are but his Deputies and Vicegerents Yea the greatest of them are but as Grashopers in his Sight The Scepter of his Kingdom is a Scepter of Righteousness he sits on a Throne of Holiness he is a great King and he is King of Glory his Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom of his Dominion there is no End Yea he is the only Potentate He doth what he will in Heaven and in Earth and who can say what dost thou David at the Dedication of the Temple saith to God Thine O Lord is the Greatness and the Power and the Glory and the Victory and the Majesty Thine is the Kingdom O God and thou art exalted as Head above all And Jeremiah saith Who would not fear thee O King of Nations For to thee doth it appertain The Psalmist saith The Lord is a great King above all Gods The Sea is his and he made it The Sea is mentioned as his Property only because the vast Ocean is capable of no humane Dominion None can or ever did claim a local Soveraignty over the whole Sea nor a Property in it The Psalmist saith The Heavens are thine the Earth also is thine as for the World and Fulness thereof thou hast founded them For his Pleasure all things are and were created Is there any other Soveraign can pretend these Titles He rules in the Kingdom of Men and gives it to whomsoever he will even unto the vilest of Men who can neither pretend worth nor deserving If then Gods's Dominion over Persons be not arbitrary as over things what impudent Presumption must it be for Creatures tho they were Angels much more for Men of like Infirmities with others and of more impetuous Passions to give no other reason for their Commands than Such is our Pleasure There are three common innate Principles written in the Heart of Man the Love of God the Love of Mankind and Self-love which in their due Subordination and in their proper Limits are all Good as Christ hath said Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart with all thy Mind with all thy Strength and thy Neighbour as thy Self These are the chief Means of the Divine Government by which Mankind might be happy in all Conditions Stations and Relations as Men as Married as Parents or Children as Masters and Servants as Soveraigns and Subjects as Fellow-Citizens as Neighbours and Friends who have all their special Principles and Rules by Reason and Revelation which when they forsake and follow the swing of their own Lusts and Passions God in his Justice might give them up to their own Counsels to follow their own Ways and oftentimes doth so as he declares by his Word as to their eternal Interest yet so great is his Goodness as he doth rarely utterly abandon them but as to their outward Condition