Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	great_a	heaven_n	know_v	2,359	5	3.7515	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20654	A sermon vpon the XX. verse of the V. chapter of the booke of Ivdges wherein occasion was iustly taken for the publication of some reasons, which His Sacred Maiestie had been pleased to giue, of those directions for preachers, which hee had formerly sent foorth : preached at the Crosse the 15th. of September. 1622 / by Iohn Donne ..., ; and now by commandement of His Maiestie published, as it was then preached.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1622 (1622)	STC 7054; ESTC S1535	27,357	74

Hebrew word And Sepher Chinnuch which is Liber Institutionum that is of Catechisme is a Booke well knowne amongst the Iewes euery where where they are now Their Institution is their Catechisme And if wee should tell some men That Caluins Institutions were a Catechisme would they not loue Catechising the better for that name And would they not loue it the better if they gaue me leaue to tell them that of which I had the experience An Artificer of this Citie brought his Childe to mee to admire as truly there was much reason the capacitie the memory especially of the child It was but a Girle and not aboue nine yeares of age her Parents said lesse some yeares lesse wee could scarse propose any Verse of any Booke or Chapter of the Bible but that that childe would goe forward without Booke I began to Catechise this child and truly shee vnderstood nothing of the Trinitie nothing of any of those fundamentall poynts which must saue vs and the wonder was doubled how she knew so much how so little The Primitiue Church discerned this necessitie of Catechising And therefore they instituted a particular Office a Calling in the Church of Catechisers Which Office as wee see in Saint Cyprians 42. Epistle that great man Optatus exercised at Carthage and Origen at Alexandria When S. Augustine tooke the Epistle and the Gospell and the Psalme of the day for his Text to one Sermon did he thinke you much more then paraphrase then Catechise When Athanasius makes one Sermon and God knowes a very short one too Contra omnes Haereses To ouerthrow all Heresies in one Sermon did he think you any more then propose fundamentall Doctrines which is truly the way to ouerthrow all Heresies When Saint Chrysostom enters into his Sermon vpon the 3. Chapter to the Galatians with that preparation Attendite diligenter non enim rem vulgarem pollicemur Now hearken diligently sayes he for it is no ordinary matter that I propose There he proposes Catechisticall Doctrine of faith and works Come to lower times when Chrysologus makes sixe or seuen Sermons vpon the Creed and not a seuerall Sermon vpon euery seuerall Article but takes the whole Creed for his Text in euery Sermon and scarse any of those Sermons a quarter of an houre long will you not allowe this manner of Preaching to bee Catechising Goe as lowe as can bee gone to the Iesuites and that great Catechizer amongst them Canisius sayes Nos hoc munus suscipimus Wee wee Iesuites make Catechising our Profession I doubt not but they doe recreate themselues sometimes in other matters too but that they glory in that they are Catechizers And in that Profession sayes hee wee haue Saint Basil Saint Augustine Saint Ambrose Saint Cyrill in our Societie and truly as Catechizers they haue as State-Friers as Iesuits they haue not And in the first Capacitie they haue him who is more then all for as hee sayes rightly Ipse Christus Catechista Christs owne Preaching was a Catechising I pray God that Iesuites conclusion of that Epistle of his be true still There he sayes Si nihil aliud If nothing else yet this alone should prouoke vs to a greater diligence in Catechising Improbus labor indefessa cura That our Aduersaries the Protestants doe spend so much time as he sayes day and night in catechizing Now if it were so then when he writ and bee not so still amongst vs wee haue intermitted one of our best aduantages and therefore God hath graciously raised a blessed and a Royall Instrument to call vs back to that which aduantaged vs and so much offended the Enemy That man may sleepe with a good Conscience of hauing discharged his dutie in his Ministery that hath preached in the forenoone and Catechised after Quaere sayes Tertullian and he sayes that with indignation an Idolatriam committat qui de Idolis catechizat Will any man doubt sayes he whether that man be an Idolatrer that catechises Children and Seruants in Idolatry Will any man doubt whether hee bee painfull in his Ministerie that catechises children and seruant in the sincere Religion of Christ Iesus The Roman Church hath still made her vse of vs of our fortunes when she gouernd here and of our example since she did not They did as they saw vs doe And thereupon they came to that order in the Councell of Trent That vpon Sundayes and Holydayes they should Preach in the forenoone and Catechise in the afternoone till we did both they did neither Except yee become as little Children yee Mat. 18.3 shall not enter into the Kingdome of Heauen sayes Christ. Except yee yee the people bee content at first to feed on the milke of the Gospell and not presently to fall to gnawing of bones of Controuersies and vnreuealed Misteries And except yee the Ministers and Preachers of the Gospell descend and apply your selues to the Capacitie of little Children and become as they and build not your estimation onely vpon the satisfaction of the expectation of great and curious Auditories you stopp theirs you loose your owne way to the kingdome of Heauen Not that wee are to shut vp and determine our selues in the knowledge of Catechisticall rudiments but to bee sure to know them first The Apostle puts vs vpon that progresse Let vs learne the Principles Heb. 6.1 of the Doctrine of Christ and goe on to perfection Not leaue at them but yet not leaue them out endeauour to encrease in knowledge but first make sure of the foundation And that increase of knowledge is royally and fatherly presented to vs in that which is another limne of his Maiesties directions the 39. Articles The Foundation of necessary knowledge is in our Catechismes the Superedification the extention in these Articles For they carry the vnderstanding and the zeale of the ablest Man high inough deepe inough In the third Article there is an Orthodoxe assertion of Christs descent into Hell who can go deeper In the 17. Article there is a Modest declaration of the Doctrine of Predestination who can go higher neither doe these Articles onely build vp Positiue Doctrine If the Church had no aduersaries that were ynough but they imbrace Controuersies too in poynts that are necessarie As in the two and twentieth Article of Purgatorie of Pardons of Images of Inuocations and these not in generall onely but against the Romish Doctrine of Pardons of Images of Inuocation And in the eight and twentieth Article against Transubstantiation and in such tearmes as admit no meeting no reconciliation but that it is repugnant to the plaine wordes of Scripture and hath giuen occasion to many Superstitions And in one word we may see the purpose and scope of these Articles as they were intended against the Romane Church in that Title which they had in one Edition in which though there were some other things that iustly gaue offence yet none was giuen nor taken in this That these Articles were conceiued and

Gods cause and doe not thinke that they haue done all or done enough if they haue done something some one time The Morall man hath said well and well applied it Plutar. A Ship is a Ship for euer if you repaire it So sayes hee Honour is Honour and so say wee A good Conscience is a good Conscience for euer if you repaire it But sayes he well Aliquid famae addendum ne putrescat Honour will putrifie and so will a good Conscience too if it be not repaired He that hath done Nothing must begin and hee that hath done something for Gods cause must doe more if hee will continue his name in the Booke of Life though God leaue no one particular action done for his glorie without glorie as those who assisted his glorie heere haue a glorious Commemoration in this Song In the fifteenth verse Princes haue their place The Princes of Issachar were with Deborah when the King goes to the field Many who are in other cases Priuiledged are by their Tenures bound to goe It is a high Tenure to hold by a Crowne And when God of whome and whome onely they hold that hold so goes into the field it becomes them to goe with him But as God sits in Heauen and yet goes into the field so they of whome God hath said Yee are Gods the Kings of the Earth may stay at home and yet goe too They goe in their assistance to the Warre They goe in their Mediation for Peace They goe in their Example when from their sweetnesse and moderation in their Gouernement at home their flowes out an instruction a perswasion to Princes abroad Kings goe many times and are not thanked because their wayes are not seene and Christ himselfe would not alwayes bee seene In the eight of Iohn he would not be seene When they tooke vp stones to stone him he withdrew himselfe inuisibly hee would not be seene When Princes find that open actions exasperate they doe best if they be not seene In the sixth of Iohn Christ would not bee seene When they would haue put vpon him that which was not fit for him to take when they would haue made him King he withdrew himselfe and was not seene When Princes are tempted to take Territories or possessions in to their hands to which other Princes haue iust pretences they doe best if they withdrawe themselues from engagements in vnnecessarie Warres for that that onely was Iofiahs 2. Reg. 23.29 ruine Kings cannot alwayes goe in the sight of Men and so they lose their thankes but they cannot goe out of the sight of God and there they neuer lose their reward For the Lord that sees them in secret shall reward them openly with peace in their owne States and Honour in their owne Chronicles as here for assisting his cause hee gaue the Princes of Issachar a roome a straine in Deborah and Barakes Song And in the ninth verse the Gouernors the great Officers haue their place in this praise My heart is towards the Gouernors of Israel that offered themselues willingly It is not themselues in person Great Officers cannot doe so They are Intelligences that moue great Spheares but they must not bee mou'd out of them But their glorie here is their willingnesse That before they were inquired into how they carried themselues in their Offices before they were intimidated or soupled with fines and ransomes voluntarily they assisted the cause of God Some in the Romane Church write that the Cardinalls of that Church are so incorporated into the Pope so much of his body and so bloud of his bloud that in a feuer they may not let bloud without his leaue Truly the great Persons and Gouernors in any state are so noble and neere parts of the King as that they may not bleed out in any subuentions and assistances of such causes vnder-hand as are not auowd by the King for it is not euident that that cause is Gods cause at least not euident that that way is an assistance of Gods cause But a good and tractable and ductile disposition in all courses which shall lawfully bee declared to bee for Gods glorie then not Contra but Praeter not against but besides not in opposing but in preuenting the Kings will before hee vrge before he presse to be willing and forward in such assistances this giues great Persons Gouernors and Officers a verse in Baraks and Deborahs Song and Deborah and Baraks Song is the Word of God The Merchants haue their place in that verse too For as wee said before those who ride vpon white Asses which was as honorable a transportation as Coaches are now are by Peter Martyr amongst ours and by Serarius the Jesuit amongst others well vnderstood to be the Merchants The greatnesse and the dignitie of the Merchan of the East is sufficiently expressed in those of Babylon Thy Merchants were the great Men of the Earth And for the Merchants of the Apoc. 18.23 West we know that in diuers forraine parts their Nobilitie is in their Merchants their Merchants are their Gentlemen And certainly no place of the world for Commodities and Situation better disposed then this Kingdome to make Merchants great You cannot shew your greatnesse more then in seruing God with part of it you did serue before you were free but here you do both at once for his seruice is perfect freedome I am not here to day to beg a Beneuolence for any particular cause on foot now there is none but my Errand in this first part is first to remoue iealousies and suspitions of Gods neglecting his businesse because he does it not at our appointment and then to promoue and aduance a disposition to assist his cause and his glory in all wayes which shall bee declar'd to conduce thereunto whether in his body by relieuing the poore or in his house by repairing these walls or in his honour in employments more publique And to assure you that you cannot haue a better debter a better pay-master then Christ Iesus for all your Entayles and all your perpetuities doe notso nayle so hoope in so riuet an estate in your posteritie as to make the Sonne of God your Sonne too and to giue Christ Iesus a Childes part with the rest of your Children It is noted perchaunce but out of leuity that your Children doc not keepe that which you get It is but a calumny or but a fascination of ill wishers We haue many happy instances to the contrarie many noble families deriued from you One enough to enoble a World Queene ELIZABETH was the great granchild of a Lord Maior of London Our blessed God blesse all your Estates and blesse your posteritie in a blessed enioying therof But truly it is a good way to that amongst all your purchases to purchase a place in Barak and Deborahs Song a testimonie of the Holy Ghost that you were forward in all due times in the assistance of Gods cause That testimonie in this Seruice