Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	earth_n	great_a	time_n	2,181	5	3.3500	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35042	A defense against the dread of death, or, Zach. Crofton's meditations and soliloquies concerning the stroak of death sounded in his ears in the time of his close imprisonment in the Tower of London, anno 1661 and 1662 : digested for his own private staisfaction and support in the vale of the shadow of death, and now made publique for the advantage of such as abide under Gods present visitation in London by the pestilence.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1665 (1665)	Wing C6992; ESTC R24795	57,690	178

thee afraid the splendor of his Majesty shall not dazle thine eyes nor discapacitate thy vision of him thy work shall not there be tyring thy service shall not then waste thy strength wear thy cloaths or dull thy spirits that thou shouldst wish for a return of time wherein to take thine ease obtain refreshment or renue thine apparel so eminent is this relation so easie so excellent is this employment that the Eternity hereof is mine exceeding mine infinitely great advantage I long to enter upon it I shall never desire to leave it mine eternal enjoyment of it is mine onely hope my Glory The Company with whom my soul parted from my body In Heaven I shall have glorious company shall associate is no less glorious then the place of my future residence or the business of my future employment when I dye I shall be admitted into and entertained by the assemblies of the first born whose names are written in heaven and the spirits of just men made perfect and the glorious Angels those shall henceforward be my companions for ever Oh blessed company who would not long to be with them who would not gladly go to them who can with any possible content think of parting from them how foolishly loath am I to leave my friends on earth yet I have not enjoyed their company without a cross many of them have scorned me many of them have slighted me many of them have failed me many of them have fallen out with me many times they have provoked my passion greived my soul and vexed my spirit all of them have one way or other given a check to my comfort and content in their society I now parting from them shall pass into enjoy and never more be parted from much better more desireable and more pleasurable company I shall now associate with Angels those glorious creatures the beauty of whose feet mortal eye can hardly look upon and live those holy spirits who wait immediately on God and with all power and speed perform the pleasure of the most high those active spirits which are sent of God to minister unto the heirs of salvation these are now attendant on me though I see them not they do me many good turnes though I perceive it not by them I am guarded in many dangers they keep me in all my ways they pitch their tents about me they do me much good and yet I understand not their nature office or ministry but now my Soul they attend my death to perform their last work to me to receive thee and carry thee into Abrahams bosom and to place thee in fellowship with themselves thou shalt thenceforward know them their natures and offices thou shalt familiarly converse with them and not be affrighted by them nor shalt thou be weary of their company these will not scorn thee these will not vex and grieve thee but as fast and faithful friends they will with freedom and fullness communicate themselves unto thee to the abundant increase of thy joy which will be the more abundant by the eternity of thy abiding with them My soul though at death thou art taken from among men and made a mate for Angels yet thou shalt not onely converse with these glorious creatures different in nature and seemingly above thee thou shalt now also associate with the spirits of just men made perfect thou shalt sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of God thou shalt now be placed under the Altar among the souls of them who were slain for the Testimony of Jesus I have taken abundant pleasure in the fellowship of the Saints on earth yet there infirmities have many times occasioned to me great vexations Oh how pleasurable will their company be now they are made perfect I have had reverend thoughts of the Saints departed the Fathers of Old and the Martyrs of latter days how precious do I account the memory of Adam Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob Joseph David Solomon Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Daniel Zachariah Peter Paul James John Ignatius Polycarpus Justin Athanasius Wickliff Hus Luther Calvin Beza Cranmer Ridley Latimer Hooper Glover Rogers Laurence Bradford with many others of these I have onely heard and read I never yet knew them but now my soul shall go to them now my soul shall know them it shall dwell in house and be most familiarly most intimately acquainted with them and not onely with these but also with all the elect of God whose names I have not yet heard of this blessed society shall so much increase the joy of my soul as to make Eternity the height of its desire of its delight who would not live for ever in so good a Neighbour-hood it hath often greived me to part from good men on earth I now lament that I must leave my godly friends on earth and go to Heaven without them and yet this my loss is made up by the enjoyment of others as good yea much better and I have an assurance that those I leave behind me shall come to me though I cannot come back to them but Oh what an hell would it be if time could cut me off from the blessed fellowship of these glorified Saints and Angels My soul put out pass freely into the Ocean of Eternity seeing thy voyage is made so comfortable by sailing in such blessed company ●orious ●ualities ●all en●ow my ●●ul The Qualities of my soul shall be suitable to this heavenly place work and company for these also shall be Glorious after death conformity to God and exact similitude to the Lord 1 Joh 3 2● shall be the endowment of my soul we are now the Sons of God it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is Oh blessed vision which transformeth its subject the sight of God and Christ by faith as they are represented to us in the Gospel doth on earth begin that change in mans soul which is compleated by the beatifical vision of their real existency in themselves there can be no symmetry without similitude no communion without conformity two cannot walk together except they be agreed there can be no satisfying apprehension of the object but by a suitable organ Like to like is the formal reason of all true and full content they that will see God and live must be holy as God is holy and perfect as God is perfect My soul passing into immediate communion with must be made conformable to God his image stamped on man in his creation was the principle and capacity of communion with God this defaced by sin man was driven and hath been kept at a distance from God but this shall be now restored to and compleated in my soul that it may return into constant communion with God all that disparity and disproportion which rendred God dreadful and destructive to my being and therefore deterred mine approach to