Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	apostle_n	heaven_n	lord_n	1,799	5	3.4709	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29451	A brief examination and consideration of the unsound princples upon which the armies plea (lately committed to publick view) is grounded wherein the repentance of those army-men and the conversion of all other persons from the error of their ways who have (in what capacity so-ever) acted by the said principles is most earnestly desired and specially aimed at / by a friend to the truth.	Friend to the truth.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4590; ESTC R23811	20,801	36

authority but what under God they have from the people and for their use That which is from the people and only under God is not of God or from Him And what is this but expressely contradictory to the words of the Apostle There is no power or the power is not but from God There are two great Kingdoms the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of the world and God is immediately by himself the King as well of the latter as of the former The Lord is our King Isa. 33. 22. King of Nations Jer. 10. 7. The Kingdom is the Lords and He is the Governour among the Nations Psal. 22. 28. Therefore the Apostle exhorting the Christians to be subject to the Civil Government gives this reason of his exhortation For the power though meerly Civil is of God And lest men should think it is of God but as the Universal Cause of all other things and not as the sole and immediate Author and Dispenser of it He expresly denies it to be of any other The power saith he is not but from God For let it be considered if it be not against all understanding to think the Apostle would exhort Christians to obey the Civil Power only upon this general account that it is from God as all things else are and not otherwise For upon that account the exhortation must needs also carry them to obey a thief and that for conscience sake for even a thiefs power by which he is able to rob and do mischief is in this sense as much from God as the most lawful power that is The Apostles meaning therfore must necessarily be and in that the difference lies that the Civil power which the Magistrate as the Minister of God is endued with is the special donative and gift of God which the other is not yet they both agree in this that they are both as all things else are immediately from God As indeed whatsoever He doth He doth by Himself immediately not mediately as is falsly fancied For how can He that is immediately present every where and in every thing stand off at a distance in any work of his How then in the collating of the Civil power If it be his Authority and Power that is in His Minister the Supreme Magistrate it is manifestly against all truth and sense to imagine that He gives it not immediately by Himself who must do every thing by Himself immediately that is done by Him And if it were not Gods own Authority which is in the Supreme Civil Magistrate who only in himself without Commission from any earthly Power beareth the sword since God alone in the Lord of life and every man is created in his image it were absolutely impossible that it should be just and lawful for the Magistrate to take away the life of a man in any case imaginable And as for the whole people not having the power of Magistracie personally committed to them of God they have no more power of the life of any man than any one private person hath If then the power of all Soveraignty or Supreme Authority by which the life of man in any case may lawfully be taken away be only Gods own peculiar and not mans it is impossible that the whole people or all the men in the world should give that which is none of theirs to give He therefore that hath a publick known certain and unquestionable right to govern as supreme Magistrate either by ancient inheritance which is the best and clearest right that can be had of any thing or by any other just and lawful means the same hath all civil power and authority to govern only and immediately from God whose peculiar it is In as much then as the right and just authority to govern is solely and immediately from God where that right and power is once fixed by what means soever it first came so to be it is there fixed by God and can never lawfully without a special command from God be refixed or disannulled by man If this may not be deemed as it really is a clear demonstration let it be duly and impartially considered whether there be any at all or the like evidence for the opposite opinion which is here laid as a Principle without any proof and as a main foundation upon which a very great weight relies Yet without doubt the solidnesse of this Principle is the more to be suspected because none but Heathens and meere Polititians have ever held it till it came to be professed by some in this Nation a few years since And those first Authors fell into it meerly upon the account of Infidelity to wit in that they either knew nothing of or did not believe that the only true God is the worlds Creator and by that special right the sole Governour thereof and consequently that all power of government is solely and precisely His which then it is impossible that any should have a right to give but He. Seeing then that Salus populi the peoples eternal safety is indeed the only supreme end in immediate subordination to Gods glory it would be well considered by them all and especially by them that must answer for them all and for themselves too whether it be not the only safe way to that Supreme safety yea and to their temporal safety too to do that wherein they cannot do amisse to restore an ancient Right For to do this is no more nor lesse but what natural righteousnesse it self requires as the proper and inseparable act and duty of it And besides that the whole torrent of the Scriptures are for it and not one sillable so much as seemingly against it It may be considered also that the said opposite Opinion and Principle hath no foundation at all in Scripture nor in the reason of a Christian For therein there is no mention of the peoples giving Civil authority or making a King but where that King was made before of God without the peoples consent or notice of such a thing Neither is there in Scripture any Example of a peoples casting off finally their Allegiance but of the ten Tribes And yet that was by a special appointment of God but this was more than they then knew and therefore to them it was as their own act and being so God punish'd them for it with perpetual and final dereliction to Idolatry There are no safe untrodden paths in the way to Heaven That uncontrolable power and absolute authority do become none but only Him whose nature is perfect and can do no wrong Power is absolute and uncontroulable two wayes first by being so in it self intrinsecally secondly by being so in relation to men that is though it be controulable by God the immediate Author of it yet by men it is not This uncontroulable authority in relation to men must be found and is in all supreme Magistracie For if supreme or chief Magistracie be controulable in them that justly possesse it by