Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earth_n	heaven_n	word_n	15,568	5	3.9347	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65173	A needful corrective or ballance in popular government expressed in a letter to James Harrington, Esquire, upon occasion of a late treatise of his, and published as seasonable in the present juncture of affaires	Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662.; Harrington, James, 1611-1677.	1660 (1660)	Wing V72; ESTC R22032	8,679	12

chosen Deputies and Representative Body for that purpose constituted by them from time to time as need shall require to joyn with the Senate be not that righteous and faithful City spoken of Isai. 1. 26. to whom her Judges are restored as at the first and her Counsellors as at the beginning by whose Decrees that Law goes forth wherein Christ himself shall appear judging amongst the Nations and rebuking many People until he settle Peace and Righteousness in the Earth Quer. 3. Whether such a Ruling Senate consisting of a competent number of fit and meet persons to be made Heads of the People and by their free suffrage elected and designed to the office of executing the supreme Power as the work singly appertaining to this chief Council of Elders and also to the exercise of the Legislative Power in association with the Representative Body of the People to be by them from time to time summoned and called together for that purpose in which general and great Assembly to propose all such matters whatsoever as are to passe into Laws and to receive the distinct and publick vote of the peoples consent to them before they be of the force of Laws or binding be not the most exact platforme of the purest kind of popular Government and that which hath its foundation and first pattern in the Word of God in the practise of Israels Common-wealth and so plainly of Divine Creation and Institution Quer. 4. Lastly Whether the beginnings of such a Government as this as small as they may be at first and accompanied with the mixture of humane frailties and infirmities may not however through the mighty and universal pouring out of the Spirit upon all flesh so grow and increase as at last to come up unto a perfect day in such sort as the publick sentence and judgement of such a restored People and holy Nation in their Assemblies of Judicature may not so much be the judgement of Man as of the Lord himself their King and Law-giver and be owned by him to be the same here on Earth with his which is in Heaven and therefore to be ratified and made stable by the Word of his Heavenly Power executed by his mighty Angels as well as by their earthly forces and strength of mens bodies against all opposers and rebellious gain-sayers to the setting up of Christ as King throughout the whole Earth and causing the Nations and Kingdomes of this World to become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ in a visible manner here below for the space of a thousand yeares in which time the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of Hoasts shall raign in Mount Sion and in Jerusalem before his Ancients gloriously shewing himself King in Jeshurum when the Heads of the People and Tribes of Israel are gathered together before the Lord in the day of their Assembly By this time I suppose I have well nigh tyred out your patience having drawn out my Letter to a greater length then becomes this way of address But since my aim in setting these things before your consideration is as I said at first not to put lead on your Chariot wheels to cause them to drive heavily but rather to be an occasion to carry on the Work in a straight line unto its perfection you will I hope the more willingly bear with me and not be offended at this small glimpse which duly improved may at length lead unto a fuller and clearer prospect into the new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwels Righteousness and may in some sort provide us against the time when the fashion of the old ones shall wear off and passe away with great noise and fervent heat which is the faith and assured expectation of him who is Your true Honourer and reall Servant FINIS