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
A63574	Grapes from Canaan, or, The believers present taste of future glory expressed in a short divine poem, the issue of spare hours, and published at the request, and for the entertainment of those whose hopes are above their present enjoyments.	Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.	1658 (1658)	Wing T280; ESTC R20740	35,830	120

that holy ground Indeed on Earth of sin few stand in awe Men set up Wickednesse oft by a Law And wicked men devour O cruel Elves Their neighbors far more righteous than themselves Here Just ones are maligned ' cause they 're just And won't be Bandogs to some great ones lust More Justice there in the infernal Den Is to be found than 'mong the sons of men Hell doth oppress none that are innocent But here ' gainst righteousness the world is bent Holiness is the White at which the Divol His fiery Darts doth principally level But Heaven is a place of Equity No wronged persons there for Justice cry There are as sacred Scriptures do express The Sun the Robe the Crown of Righteousness Heavens Amplitude SPacious enough that Heavenly structure is To entertain the souls ordain'd to bliss It is a Garner wide enough to hold Those blessed Grains whose number can't be told How ample is the New Jerusalem Where every Saint's deck'd with a Diadem Though myriads of Saints inhabit there Yet every Saint doth move in his own sphere 'T is not a place so narrow or so strait But sublime spirits may there expatiate Heavens Brightness THat Royal Palace which excels in height Is called an inheritance in light The splendor of it doth the Sun 's out vie It far surpasses its resplendency Were every star a sun without all doubt Heavens lustre they could never shadow out Light is a glorious creature what were all The world if Darkness should the same enthral Alas What beauty is there in the sun When it is vayl'd and hath a muffler on Light actuates the colours and doth shew Each Herb and Flower in its most verdant hew 'T is Natures smile the Universes gloss Who wants the light doth need no greater cross Light beautifies the creatures with its rayes It is on bodies a bright paraphrase Whether i' th modesty of a morning blush It self it doth discover or doth rush In with more spriteful beams whither in a star It twinckles or doth in a Comet glare Whither in a Gem it frisketh in the night Or in a Glow-worm playes the hypocrite Whither in a Lamp it doth epitomize It self or in a spark it self comprize How e're 't is pleased it self to manifest Or in what form soever it is drest Such a commanding lustre in its face It alwayes carries as it self doth grace Yet O how dark doth Light it self appear When to the fountain it of Light drawes near The place of rest that in the world to come Remains for saints is a diaphanum It is not like the Element o're head That 's here and there with stars enammelled No 't is a Body wonderfully bright Being all o're embroidered with light The glory of the Sun is needless there Christ is the Sun that shineth in that sphere A Sun that no Eclipse can over-shrowd A Sun that can't be masked with a cloud A Sun which rising on the saints that reign With God in glory never sets again Whenas the sacred scriptures would express The glorious majesty and blessedness Of God himself unto the very height They make 't consist in this He dwells in light Heavens Permanency HEaven is a place subject to no decay An Heritage that fadeth not away No wonder saints are with it so much taken It is a Kingdom that cannot be shaken The great and mighty Monarchies on earth Have had their dying times as well as birth Their ruins were as certain as their rise But as for the Celestial paradise Venices * Nec fluctu nec flatu movetur Motto you may on it write No winds nor waves can stir't with al their might The tabernacle wch was transient Did transitory comforts represent But Heavens joy and happiness no doubt Were by the fixed temple shadow'd out The saints shall bath themselves in bliss for ever Nothing shall them and their Redeemer sever Their Lease of Heaven perpetual shall be Stamp'd with the broad seal of Eternitie Eternity's a Day that hath no Night A Spring that hath no Autumne joy at height O happy man who being freed from thrall Enjoy the vision beatifical HEAVENS GLORY FURTHER SHADOWED OUT BY ITS NAMES TITLES AND EPITHITES THe Titles Names and Epithites that are Ascrib'd to Heavenly joyes do yet declare And further to our relish represent Their sweetness even to astonishment A Kingdom HEaven is a Kingdom and a Kingly throne Is held the top crown and perfection Of sublunary bliss the highest aime Of mans ambition that which doth inflame His aspiration most a confluence It is of Riches and magnificence Of glory pompe and royal majesty Of pleasure and delightful bravery Or what the heart of man can more desire To make his outward happiness entire What stirs and stratagems what pulling down Of one another to climbe to a crown What Machavillian depths what strange adventures What stretching of mens brains upon the tenters What cunning Plots what rowling of each stone To be installed in the regal throne Witness our York and Lancaster nay all Earths habitable parts both great and small Which have from time to time prov'd as we find In story bloody Cock-pits in this kind An heavenly Kingdom AN Heavenly Kingdom 't is to intimate That it in excellency pompe and state As far transcends all earthly Kingdoms as The Empyrean Heaven doth surpass The Earth with all its bravery and store Of choice delights and infinitely more The Kingdom of God GOds Kingdom 't is a Kingdom of his own Framing and beautifying 't is a throne Erected by his power who like himself Doth all things make not deek'd with worldly pelt But with ineffable transcendencies Embellish'd and such rare felicities As best beseem the Maker of all things The glorious residence of the King of Kings An Inheritance IT is no tenement at will to be Possest or left at th'Landlords libertie But an Inheritance to us convey'd And seal'd by th' highest price that e're was paid Which will as orient and as pretious be After as many thousand years as we Can possibly conceive as 't was the first Day that it poured out was and disburst An incorruptible inheritance THe Ponderous weight of that felicity And blessedness which is possessed by The saints who there the royal scepter sway Shall ne're be subject to the least decay Much less shall their illustrious condition Obnoxious be to any abolition But their unspeakable beatitude All diminution wholly ●hall exclude And alwayes be as fresh and full as at The first it was their glorified estate Shall ne're decline but without spot or stain Through all eternity entire remain An Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory HEaven an exceeding and eternal weight Of Glory stiled is its pompe and state Crowns kingdoms jewels and most orient Pearls can to us but weakly represent And darkly shadow out it is saith one A phrase superlative and such as none Of all the Heathen in their Or atory Could ever reach unto because heavens glory Is