Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	heaven_n	kingdom_n	new_a	5,868	5	6.6803	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04371	A spirituall trumpet exciting and preparing to the Christian warfare. Sounded first in the vtmost parts of the Lords campe, to one wing of the armie, now in the midst for the benefit of all. By William Iemmat, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word at the Lechlade in Gloucester shire.	Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1624 (1624)	STC 14485; ESTC S100253	49,002	316

say I answer Yes and I haue iust cause so to doe for it is as dangerous a condition as those who are openly prophane if not more But howsoeuer it cannot be good it cannot be safe For hath not the opening of this text discouered that the life of a Christian here is the life of a souldier Haue we not heard of warre and fighting and striuing and resisting And haue wee not seene that this bustling is grounded vpon reasons very sufficient Whence then is this generall carelesnesse and vniuersall vnfeelingnesse which possesseth the hearts of the sonnes of men Is it indeed a pleasant or an easie thing to be a warriour No trouble no feare no distraction in a campe No wounds or bloudshed in an armie Were hee not a foole that would goe into a battell aray and yet say Ezek. 13.10 Peace Peace where there can bee no peace Examine the matter by common reason and you shall finde it euidently true Then looke backe vpon Satan and thinke if you can that he is more idle or weake to follow his skirmish than men are to follow theirs Nay he is more malicious more puissant more vnweariable No truce can be taken no fauour expected no conditions of peace accepted vnlesse wee yeeld him all that hee asketh and what that is let any one iudge Therefore my brethren let these things worke vpon our hearts and perswade vs for time to come to fight and fight valiantly Let vs know that wee haue a most pestilent and terrible and bloud-thirstie enemie And knowing it we cannot in reason but doe our best to preuent his purposes Let vs be sober and temperate in all things not suffering our selues to be clogged with any distract-full hindrances within vs or without vs as they that run in a race and striue for the masterie 1 Cor. 9.25 And not only be sober but watch 1 Pet. 5.8 Be sober be vigilant And not only so but pray Matt. 26.41 Watch and pray that yee enter not into tentation And more than that Endure hardnesse as a good souldier of Iesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3 Be not entangled with the affaires of this life striue lawfully Vse 2 A caueat to the godly against securitie and lukewarmnesse Secondly this serueth as an antidote or preseruatiue to the children of God to keepe them holily constant in that ranke wherein the Lord hath placed them Oftentimes it commeth to passe through the weaknesse of their flesh and the heauinesse of their spirit and the occasions they haue in the world and their familiaritie with good duties that they doe euen stand at a stay and know not well which way to turne themselues To ioyne with prophane ones they dare not they cannot it is against their profession and conscience and saluation And to exceed themselues in the work of holinesse they know not how They are sure that more grace should and may be obtained but wherein or how Thus in a maze as it were and doubtfull what to doe they easily incline to a temperate mediocritie and rest content with some of the power 2 Tim. 3.5 but more of the forme of godlinesse Grace they intend still to pursue but without due affection Holy exercises they will still obserue both at home at Church but coldly sleepily brokenly vnfeelingly vnfruitfully This lukewarmnesse of theirs carnall persons see and laugh at it themselues see and bewaile it and wish it were with them as sometimes it was at their first conuersion to bee forward and zealous and doe the worke of the Lord diligently But how may this be or what should they doe Here now I answer by vertue of this text Resist the deuill Many meanes they haue to shake vp their securitie as for example To consider deeply and seriously the multitude and hainousnesse of their sinnes both before their regeneration and since To recount their extreme beggerie in themselues and vnworthinesse to receiue the least fauour from the Lord To prize highly the bloud of the Couenant wherewith they are redeemed and the like But especially let them be carefull to remember and carry in minde this necessary doctrine of the Christian Warfare For if the noise of drums and trumpets if the fourbishing of swords and the glittering of armour and the trailing of pikes will not stirre vp a mans spirits what will This therefore let the Christian man consider and thus let him say with himselfe What haue I no enemie with whom to exercise my selfe Are there no deuils abroad in the world or in hell Hath my purse enemies on the high-way and my goods enemies about my house and my body enemies and my soule no enemies Much adoe I finde in getting and keeping a small worldly estate about me and doth it aske no feare or paines to get and keepe possession of the kingdome of heauen What no opposition Did all the earth sit still Zech. 1.11 12. and at rest while Ierusalem was vnder an heauie indignation threescore and ten yeeres and shall I who professe my selfe one of the citizens of the new Ierusalem sit still and at rest while the whole world of Beleeuers is hot in the battell How doth this hang together Should I not weepe with them that weepe and be sorrie with them that sorrow Haue I not too iust cause so to doe Why what doe I thinke of Satan Is he so louing that he will spare me or so weake that he will feare me Is he witlesse that he cannot deceiue me by subtiltie or idle that he will not Was hee too good for our first parents in innocencie for Noah a Patriarke for Dauid a Prophet for Peter an Apostle for Demas an Euangelist for Ananias and Sapphira two famous Professors and many Worthies of the Lord and is it not likely hee will get ground of me Me Alas silly creature that I am who am I to stand in the hands of so stout a Champion especially vnarmed Therfore hearken O my soule and all that is within me muster vp your forces and come into the field I haue hitherto spotted slept and snorted in the cradle of securitie I little dreamt of an enemie at least to be so neere as indeed he is like Saul and Abner in the campe when Dauid might haue smote off their heads 1 Sa. 26.8.15 An hundred to one but I had beene destroied ere this time Oh blessed be God who hath deliuered mee out of the mouth of the Lion and the paw of the Beare and hath giuen mee time to see mine errour By the grace of my Lord Iesus I will hereafter keepe more constantly to my colours fight vnder the bannet of my owne Lord. Thus therefore I argue Is he a fox and not subtill Is he a serpent and not wilie and if hee be subtill wilie hath he no feats or tricks to put vpon mee Because I in simplicitie thinke him no harme doth hee thinke mee none Is he not now at this present time about some stratageme to

wee walke among these snares and thornes and rubs in our way we must get our feet shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace Eph. 6.15 Fiftly Prayer is the bond that ties all the other peeces together as there verse 18. Praying alwayes with all praier and supplication in the Spirit and watching therunto with all perseuerance Praier how it is helpfull Pray to espie a temptation when it commeth pray to bee able to vse the armour which God hath put vpon vs to be resolute and couragious for the truth to be deliuered from euill that wee may not enter into temptation or be left to our selues and Satans courtesie And when the battell goeth sore against vs crie aloud as Iehosaphat in the armie for aid and succour from God and say Lord rebuke Satan magnifie thy power in confounding him and strengthning mee and giue me grace to resist vnto bloud These are the maine weapons for resisting Two subsidiarie aids the deuill For the better managing whereof vse these two helps First keepe thy selfe in such a temper that thou maist alway enioy the benefit of a good and a pure conscience Dubbe it not with the filthinesse of any sinne let none be admitted willingly or wittingly nor continue vnrepented of for this would choake thy conscience when it should haue a voice to checke thee Yea labour on the contrary to fortifie and cheare it Hic murus aheneus esto Nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa vp with the sweet testimonie of vprightnesse and integritie So shall it be bold to speake for thee and answer Satan Marke also the motions and checks and recoilings of it and make a good vse of them because this tends to the application of the former weapons Secondly bee sure thou liuest indeed in the Communion of Saints As thou beleeuest it so make vse of it which is by ioyning thy forces with the rest of Gods people Pray for the brethren who endure the same skirmishes abroad in the world help them with thy counsell and experiences and be as readie also to take profit from them suffer the word of admonition yea craue it depend vpon their lips that they may feed thee descrie what policies of Satan thou hast met withall and wherein he is most happily repulsed Compare trials and conquests and counsels Ioyne all together and you shall all speed the better So did the Apostles and Disciples against the rage of the deuill in his instruments the chiefe Priests and their whole Councell Act. 4 23-31 And this be spoken of the second question Quest 3 Quest 3. In what manner should we resist the deuill or what are the conditions of sound resistance 1. Resist the deuill betimes Answ First resist him earely and timely and that both in respect of thy life and in respect of any one sin whereby hee would haue euill done or good left vndone 1. In the beginning of thy life 3. reas For the former Begin thy life with this holy combat and end it in the same Thy whole being on the face of the earth from thy birth-day to thy dying-day is a continuall warfare Thou art borne in a campe among souldiers and armour Thy Parents by their profession are of the traine band fighting vnder the conduct and colours of the Lord Iesus And canst thou expect immunitie expect it not no part of thy life is free from hazzards therefore let none be free from watchfulnes from resistance And the equity hereof stands vpon three other reasons First remember there is an old grudge betweene thee and Satan in this very respect He was enuious spightfull at the prosperitie of mankinde as soone as it began could not endure to see man so happy and himselfe so miserable laid about him how to strip our fathers and vs of all those robes of blessednesse wherewith God had cloathed vs and leaue vs naked to his owne condemnation and hee neuer ceased till he had effected his purpose And is not this a good argument to resist him timely What braue or generous spirit can put vp such an iniurie What no reuenge for so great an indignitie Ioh. 8.44 Shall Satan bee a man slayer from the beginning and wilt not thou be a deuill-slaier at least a resister of the deuill from thy beginning Did hee owe thee a spight when thou hadst done him no wrong and doest thou owe him no ill-will since he hath done thee the greatest wrong that can be Consider his forwardnesse to vndoe thee and be thou as forward to oppose him Secondly consider this that God hath scarce euer raised vp any notable instrument to repaire his decaied Church and defeat Satan of his malicious purposes but he hath presently bestirred himselfe to suppresse and hinder it and make it forcelesse Abel was a most faithfull and holy man very hopefull and likely to establish the pure worship of God in his familie and posteritie if he had liued therefore what should the deuill but cut him off quickly and shed his bloud by his owne brother Iehosua was willing and ready to doe much good for the Temple of the Lord at Ierusalem therefore what should Satan but stand at his right hand and resist him Paul Zech. 3.1 immediately vpon his conuersion set himselfe to preach the Gospell and plant Churches among the nations therefore what should Satan but set himselfe to stirre vp tumults and doe his best euery way to hinder him The Church 1 Thess 2.18 the Spouse of Christ is a woman Reuel 12.1 cloathed with the Sun that is in the robes of Christ the Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4.2 and the moone vnder her feet that is disesteeming and trampling vpon all these vaine and transitorie things in the world and hath vpon her head a crowne of twelue starres that is professeth the doctrine of the twelue Apostles which shee accounts her crowne and glory This woman being married to Christ is often with childe by her husband to the subuersion of the kingdome of darknesse Now marke the disposition of the Prince of darknesse in this case vers 4. He still plaieth rex in the Church casteth downe a third part of the starres from heauen to earth that is many Preachers and Professors of the truth partly by erroneous doctrine and partly by a prophane course of life But especially if there be a childe to be ●orne who shall rule all nations with a rod of iron that is mightily subiect them to the obedience of the Gospell if so now hee vseth more than ordinary diligence to spoile the birth and deuoure the childe so saith the Spirit The dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be deliuered to deuoure her child as soone as it was borne Neuer doth there peepe a speciall beautifull plant in the garden of God but incontinently hee doth what he can to crop it away Therefore see herein his malice and learne by himselfe to resist him early