Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	good_a	king_n	people_n	3,603	5	4.8197	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87478	The resurrection of dead bones, or, The conversion of the Jewes. In a treatise, wherein are clearly demonstrated the places where, and manner how the ten supposed lost Tribes of Israel do at this day subsist. With a description of the future glorious estate of the Twelve, at the incomparable union of Judah and Ephraim; which must shortly be in reference to its compleating the whole mysterie of mans redemption, and real establishing of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, after the Jews conversion. / Written by J.J. Philo-Judæus.	J. J.	1655 (1655)	Wing J19; Thomason E1501_1; ESTC R208651	64,571	139

Israel The first objection is by a sort of men more rationable then the other sort such as the Father terms moralized and well disposed Christians which ut ipsi volunt do speak and act according to truth and for my part I do believe it is only out of dark zeal But for a more apt and infallible definition let us but nominate them as Origen well spake Ii sunt qui accipiunt isthaec verba secundum literam quae occidit c. Such they are as do only take the literal part of Scripture for the true sense thereof who I am sure would be very unwilling to receive that sentence in the 3. of John v. 18. in the same manner But thus they object That the Lord sent them this certain sign of his displeasure by the mouths of the Prophets that violence shall take hold of you and I saith the Lord will consume you utterly so that none of you shall remain So now where the Lord doth seem to give his people bils of divorce and to root them out from among the rest of the world there these men take it for a firm consequence that those cannot be capable of a Christian conversion whom the Text saith shall not have a being To this I answer When God doth by his servants pronounce his sentence of judgment against a Nation City or Family it is not always an act of his absolute decreeing will for if so there had been no more hope for Israel and if God had absolutely and irrevocably decreed the destruction and utter desolation of Niniveh that great city within forty days time He would not have repented him of the evil which he had determined against it So in Hos 8.11 the Lord saith How shall I deliver thee up Ephraim c. My repentings are kindled together Here now God had threatned to cut Israel off from the land and to make them a spoil for the enemy but he cryeth out How shall I do it As if so be the Lord had no will nor pleasure in the doing of it God did always delight in mercy more then in sacrifice And therefore on the contrary I answer That these expressions of God are part of his declarative will wherein I see much of divine wisdome how that God doth oftentimes work mightily upon the spirits of his own people by way of terror So that if a man do scan many of the Lords expressions he shall perceive them to be no other then conditional much like unto the blessings promised for holiness and curses threatned for sin disobedience Deu. 28. And we often find many good actions produced in men by the Lords displaying his banner of justice over their heads and that both in the inward and the outward man As for proof this produced much even in Ahab that ungodly King who before he met with his enemy the Prophet as he called him went on in an arrogant way devising mischief against the people of God but no sooner came this word to Ahabs eares Thus saith the Lord but it made his haughty naughty heart to stoop for the Text saith that he walked softly As also such was that power which did accompany the preaching of Jonah that it caused the heathen King to call for the most solemn Fast that ever we do read of in the Scripture But above these we may behold the great wisdom of God in those great effects which the threats of the Lord have produc'd in the hearts of many men For it made Manasseh that ungodly King to pray earnestly and to beg pardon of the Lord for all his grievous transgressions And such was the story of Nathan that it made David to grow more watchful I will but make mention of one more and then I hope that all objectors of this sort will be satisfied and that is Hezekiah to whom the Lord did send Isaiah the Prophet to tell the King that he should die and not live Now do but mark the force of these words although delivered to him by the mouth of a mortal man it follows immediately that he turned his face to the wall and prayed and upon this the merciful and only wise God prolonged his days in the land B. Augustine writing on this place affirmeth that novit Dominus mutare sententiam si peccator noscit emendare vitam So that God notwithstanding his first message sent unto the King Austin saith was ready to forgive him and to alter the sentence upon this condition that he would grow more fervent in holiness For as our natural parents are careful to discern the temper and constitution of their children whereby they become very skilful to educate them after various manners some will take learning of any other art sooner by way of perswasion whereas some will not without often chastisement and reproof So our spiritual Father that omniscient and mighty discerner of the hearts of all men doth use the most wise and best way of dealing towards his children for some he doth wooe and draw as with cords of a man and bands of love and others he doth threaten as he did the Israelites only that they might turn to him For the Lord hath sworn that he would have no man to perish nor no hard heart to be cast away but that all might know the truth This makes a Rebel oftentimes become a trusty humble subject under the Lord of mercy The second Objection it by a sort of people that have been very potent amongst us here in England until now of late men of most wide fancies like unto those termed Quakers They do now object and say That what was promised is already fulfilled and that some Jews there were which did believe in the name of Christ and were saved And these men being as they imagine super-humane and super institutiones do affirm that the end of the world is usque ed finem even at the very doors But to answer this I shall do it negatively● For to say that which was promised concerning Israel is already happened is false By the Scripture in Rev. 14.6 it is written That an Angel did fly through the midst of heaven having the everlasting Gospel for to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation kindred tongue and people Now the blessed Apostle S. Paul to shew as it were in a mysterie the glorious estate of his Countrymen he saith it shall not come until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in Which if I do make clear not as yet to have come to pass then I hope there is no man so Momus-like that will deny but the Jewes may as yet be called But first we may be convinced by that blessed and thrice happy conversion of so many blind Heathens in America that did never so much as hear of a Jesus Christ nor the Gospel before and as I am certified their number of converted ones daily do increase So that we must not clip nor diminish the