Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	christian_a	king_n	time_n	1,755	5	3.4673	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14731	All in all. ... By Samuell Ward	Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.	1622 (1622)	STC 25033A; ESTC S111604	14,072	54

comfort his money will afford him in the day of Death and Iudgement what does a penny and a pound an emptie purse and a full purse differ Does not too too late experience teach them to cry out All is vanitie and force them with the Emperour Seuerus to say I haue been all things and it auailes nothing if I had a thousand worlds I would giue them to bee found of God in Christ. Worthily therefore did Charles the Great change that old By-word of money into his Christian Symbole Christ reignes Christ ouercomes Christ tryumphs Christ is All in All. All then let him bee in all our desires and wishes Who is that wise Merchant that hath heart large enough to conceiue and beleeue this let him goe sell all his nothing that he may compasse this Pearle barter his Bugles for this Diamond verily all the Haberdash stuffe the whole pack of the world hath is not worthy to bee valued with this Iewell worthy of him thou canst not bee vnlesse thou counts all drosse and losse to gaine him that is gaine in life and death vnlesse thou canst as the Apostles forsake all to follow him yea as diuers of the common sort of his followers lay downe all at the Apostles feete for him who layd downe himselfe for vs emptying himselfe of his glorie to fill vs with grace and glory yea vnlesse thou canst make nothing of thy selfe and thine owne righteousnesse which is the hardest thing in practice that may bee Few or none I thinke there bee in the sound of the Gospell but haue some faint and languide wishes oh that Christ were mine But would they know the reason why they attaine not the sweet fruition and rauishing possession of him I am his and hee is mine The reason is because he will not bee found and had of such as seeke but lasily and coldly for him that enquire not through the streetes as vndone without him as had rather then want him want all the world besides and crying as the Spouse Where art thou whom my soule loueth whom haue I in heauen like vnto thee Men and brethren what shall I doe that I may enioy him Giue me Christ or I die draw mee that I may run after thee These are the affections that befit them that are like to bee speeders The sluggard lusteth and wanteth He that desires any thing aboue him equally with him or without him shall neuer obtaine him he will bee wooed in the first place with all thy soule strength and might with all that is within thee or not at all of thee All let him bee in all thy loues and aboue all other beloueds when thou hast gotten him thinke not enough to make much of him but remember hee well deserues to bee and must bee All in all Take him not by the hand but embrace him with both thine Armes of loue and hold him with all thy might loue him till thou be sicke of loue for him such as will suffice any one ordinary obiect wife friend health or wealth will not giue him content nay not a compound of many but a Catholicion of all as hee hath deserued so he deseruedly challengeth All thy weake Riuerets vnited will scarce make one current strong enough for him Hee that did all suffered all tooke all thine infirmities finished all for thee is it not reason he should be all in all without any corriuall in all thy affections Such as entertaine Princes can neuer thinke they shew loue enough vnto them and shall any thing bee enough for this Prince of our peace and saluation I cannot but reuerence the memory of that reuerend Diuine who beeing in a deepe muse after some discourse that had passed of Christ and teares trickling abundantly from his eyes before hee was aware being vrged for the cause thereof confessed ingenuously it was because hee could not draw his dull heart to prise Christ aright A rare minde in Christians who thinke euery little enough and too much for him ALL let him bee in all our references and respects to others yea in all our elections and valuations of wife friends companions seruants onely to prize Christ and his Image his Faith and Graces not kindred not wealth not greatnesse not other parts but onely the whole of a man which is his Christianity dare not to yoke thy selfe vnequally with any vntamed heyfer that beares not his yoke Spouse not but in the Lord call none Father Mother or Brother but such as hee did that is such as doe his Fathers will set not poore Lazarus at the footestoole of thy heart and Diues with his Gold Ring and his Purple in the throne of esteeme lest Christ bee offended for hauing his glorious Gospell in respect of persons Oh what a difficult vertue is this when it commeth to the practising to ouersee and neglect all glistering lures and stales of the flesh and to know no man for any such carnall Caparisons but to consider him as a new creature in Christ and delight thy selfe in them as the most excellent of the earth the onely true Gentile Noble Worthies of the World How royall and memorable was that practise of Ingo an ancient King of the Draues and Veneds who making a stately feast not as Ahasuerosh to shew the bountie of his owne but the glory of Christes Kingdome set all his Nobles which were at that time Pagans and vnconuerted to the Christian faith in his Hall below and certaine poore Christians in his Presence Chamber with himselfe with kingly cheare and attendance at which they wondring hee told them this hee did not as King of the Draues but as King of another world wherein these were his consorts and fellow-Princes these hee saw with a spirituall eye clad in white Robes and worthy his company to them he would giue Ciuill due in the regiment of the Common-wealth but those he must loue and honour in his heart as beloued and honored of God A rare and noble Art recorded by three Historians worthy to be read to the shame of our times wherin men of meane greatnesse know not how to shew the least respect to a Christian or a Minister in the name of Christ to account them worthy their company whom they ought to haue in singular respect and to accompt their very feete beautifull for their Lord and Embassage sake onely with this Prouiso that diuine and nimious adoration be not giuen a fault on the other hand common in Poperie to their spirituall Fathers and Founders of orders and rules whom they obey and reuerence aboue Christ as Gualter giues instance in a doating Abbot of Germany who snibbed a Nouice for talking of Christ and the Gospell and nor of the Rules of Saint Francis and his owne Order a common fault among Sectaries who hold vaunt and denominate themselues of this or that Man of this or that Faction whereas with God I dare boldly say there is neither Caluenist nor Lutherane Protestant