Selected quad for the lemma: nation_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nation_n	king_n	lord_n	samuel_n	1,180	5	11.3800	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28242	A tender visitation of love, to both the Universities Oxford and Cambridge and to the Inns of Court and Chancery even to the seed of God in you all, for you to mind, and consider ere it be too late. From the movings of the Lord, in your friend George Bishop.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3007; ESTC R210721	16,549	20

thing as this laid for the ground what true pretence or colour of Reason is there for the Common or any Law of England seeing that the Breast of the Judge or that within him from whence he Judgeth is the principle thereof which if it be corrupt unreasonable and evil such must needs be the judgement which proceedeth from it and such is the judgement which proceedeth not from the principle of God And were there not such a thing in man as the principle of God what Right have any to Rule or to what end are Laws of Right among men seeing that the principle of God it is only that makes man to differ from the beast that perisheth and assoon yea sooner if I may so say because the beast hath not that understanding for the Devil to work in as unreasonable man may the Beast be taught to cease to do evil and to learn to do well as man in this state For the Ox knoweth his owner and the Asse his Masters crib but Israel doth not know my People doth not consider And man bein in honour abideth not he is like the beast that perish And wise Agur said of himself surely I am more bruitish than any man and have not the understanding of a man I neither learned wisdom nor have the knowledge of the Holy But such a Principle as this being in man is the ground or reason though it be little known why there is more or lesse of right in the Laws of Nations and more or lesse of Obedience unto them even as those who govern or are under them have more or lesse of this or as this works more or lesse or is in the Laws or them And the being of this in man is the reason why Nations are not utterly destroyed and mankinde rased out from off the face of the Earth which the Devil would soon do could he this get over and this is the Kingdom of God in the Children of men though man attributes it too much to his wisdom and strength and gives not the Glory to God nor sees his working And the want of the knowing and working of this in Rulers and People is the reason of most of the wars and desolations in the Earth but this coming to be known and to work the occasions of wars which make desolate will cease and all oppression and that which preserves the Creation by which it was made which is tender to that which it hath made and redeems it from the vanity unto which it was made subject will guide and rule And so all things will be brought into their right course and order again as before the fall which turned all things out of Order and inverted the right course and order of things in which state things stand till that which was before the Fall from which man was driven in the Fall doth rule and guide And for the manifestation of this the Creature groaneth and travelleth in pain together till now even for the manifestation of the sons of God that it may not be made subject unto vanity For the earnest expectation of the Creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God for the Creature was made subject unto vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope because that the Creature it selfe also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Children of God For we know that the whole Creation groaneth and travelleth in pain together until now and not only they but our selves also which have the first fruits of the spirit even we our selves groan within our selves waiting for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of our Bodie And this viz. the bringing of man back to the Principle of God in him to lead and guide him from which he is gone is the work which the Lord is now doing in the Earth and unto which he hath brought thousands already in these Nations and which he will not slack his hand till he hath finished The Lord hath spoken it Glory to Him for ever who is causing the day to dawn and the shadows to fly away Now were it so that man knew and believed in and obeyed the Principle of God in him and grew up therein and from it gave judgement which by reason of the darkness and ignorance that is in him he little understands and believes lesse And therefore is oft times putting darknesse for light and light for darknesse bitter things for sweet and sweet for bitter as he is swayed by passion and private interest not knowing the Lord nor his Principle in him The Common Law would be most excellent and the Administration thereof exceeding useful and most suitable to this People the benefit of which as it is they would more feel were the Spirit that Administers it as simple and plain as were the hearts of them who gave the Presidents For as profession without the life hath abounded so hath deceit which is the reason why the present age is more oppressive and perplexing in the Laws and more dilatory and wrong in the administration of them than were the ages in the deepest time of darkest Popery who had less profession but more simplicity as the things themselves make manifest However the principle of it so far as in the Notion it is grounded upon and refers to and is the Principle of God as I have shewed out of your own Books that so it is is good and right and no other than that of which I have spoken and unto which I have directed you as the way to God And the Lord hath promised that he will restore Judges as at the first and Counsellors as in the beginning who were such as knew and were guided by and judged from the Principle of God in them Which doth none iniquity nor can evil touch it Which renders to every one his due and judges for God as did Moses and Joshua and Samuel whom all Israel followed The Judgement which proceedeth from that pure Principle being that which onely reacheth to the same in every man and subjecteth unto it from which when there was none that judged it was so that there was no King in Israel And when the Children of Israel went from the Judges who judged from it and said to Samuel give us a King to judge us and nay but we will have a King over us that we also may be like all the Nations The Lord said to Samuel they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them And the time is at hand wherein this promise shall be fulfilled after the hour is over which is coming which will not hold very long though it will be very sharp but shall end in this even in Reign of the Seed of God over all for ever and ever Again Look ye Professors of Divinity into the Schoolmen and see what they say as to the Question Sc. where must a man