Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	hand_n	heaven_n	lord_n	3,518	5	3.6493	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40073	The design of Christianity, or, A plain demonstration and improvement of this proposition viz. that the enduing men with inward real righteousness or true holiness was the ultimate end of our Saviour's coming into the world and is the great intendment of his blessed Gospel / by Edward Fowler ...	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1671 (1671)	Wing F1698; ESTC R35681	136,795	332

Majesty doth so out of respect to them as such but as they have promises but especially threatnings annexed to them For to be sure he that performs the one and forbears the other from any Lovely notion he hath of Obedience and any hateful one he hath conceived of disobedience will also make Conscience of those and the like Duties in regard of the goodness becomingness and Excellency he discerns in them and will abstain from these and the like Sins because of the intrinsick Evil Turpitude and Deformity he apprehends in them For those are no whit less manifestly lovely and Worthy of Mankind than is Obedience to the Divine Will considered in an abstracted notion nor these less apparently vile and abominable than is Disobedience For that very Reason that makes it an intolerable thing to disobey a Law of God viz. because it is highly Unjust so to do makes it so also to Commit the forementioned and such like Sins and so on the Contrary Now this Proposition That it is a base thing to do unjustly is one of those which I call first principles than which there is nothing Man-kind doth more naturally assent to And those Sins with many other are alike plain instances and expressions of that shameful vice Injustice though not of an equal degree of it The summe of what we have said in this account of the Nature of True Holiness is this viz. That it is such a Disposition and Temper of the inward man as powerfully enclines it carefully to regard and attend to affectionately to embrace and adhere to to be actuated by and under the Government of all those Good Practical Principles that are made known either by Revelation Nature or the use of Reason Now though Nothing is more natural to the Souls of Men considered in their pure Essentials and as they came out of their Creatour's hands than this most Excellent Temper yet by their Apostacy from God and sinking into Brutish sensuality did they sadly disposses themselves of it and so became like the Beasts which perish But it pleased the Infinite Goodness of the Divine Majesty not to give us over so For when we had destroyed our selves in him was our Help found He greatly concerned himself for the Recovery of Fallen Mankind by various means and Methods and when the world was at the very worst did he make use of the most Sovereign and effectual Remedy He who at Sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets did in these last days send his dearly Beloved and onely Begotten Son to us And to prove that the Great Errand he came upon was the effecting of our Deliverance out of that sinful State we had brought our selves into and the putting us again into possession of that Holiness which we had Lost is now our Next Business CHAP. II. A General Demonstration that the Holiness Described is the Design of Christianity by a Climax of Seven particulars IN the first place in order to the proof of this it is worthy our observation that S. Iohn the Baptist being sent to prepare the way before our Saviour did so by teaching the Doctrine of Repentance and Baptizing men thereunto And that we no sooner read of his appearing in Publique and entring upon his Office of Harbinger or Fore-runner but we find him Preaching this Doctrine and making use of the News of the Messiah's Approach as a Motive to perswade them to that Duty Matth. 3. 1 2. In those days came Iohn the Baptist preaching in the Wilderness of Iudea and saying Repent ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand And this was that which the Angel foretold Zacharias he should do when he gave him the first notice that he should be the Father of such a Son Luk. 1. 16 17. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God and he shall go before him in the power and Spirit of Elias to turn the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the disobedient to the Wisdom of the just to make ready a people prepared for the Lord That is He shall make way for the Messiah with the same zeal against all wickedness as was expressed by Elias and likewise with an immediate Commission from Heaven as he had in order to the working of a General Reformation among the Jews This sheweth that Christ's Great errand into the world was mens thorow-conversion from Sin and the making them truly Holy seeing that the only preparation necessary for the entertainment of him consisted in having this work begun in them Secondly Upon the first news of Christ's near Approach brought by Malachi the last of the Prophets this is expressed by him as that which should be his Grand Business when he was come Mal. 3. 1 2 3. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his Temple even the Messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in or have a longing expectation of Behold he shall come saith the Lord of Hosts But who may abide the day of his coming Or who shall stand when he appeareth For he is like a Refiner's fire and like Fuller's Soap And he shall sit as a Refiner and purifier of Silver and he shall purifie the Sons of Levi and purge them as Gold is purged c. Thirdly Immediately after his conception in the womb of the Blessed Virgin this was foretold to Ioseph Concerning him by an Angel Matth. 1. 21. She shall bring forth a Son and thou shalt call his Name Jesus for He shall save his people from their sins This Blessing of making men Holy was so much the design of Christ's coming that He had his very Name from it Observe the words are He shall save his people from their sins not from the punishment of them And as will fully appear hereafter that is the primary sence of them which is most plainly expressed in them That he shall save his people from the punishment of sin is a true sence too but it is secondary and implied only as this latter is the never failing and necessary consequent of the former Salvation This again was foretold by Zacharias betwixt his Conception and Birth He saith Luke 1. 72 c. That God performed his covenant in sending Christ which covenant consists in this That He would grant us that We being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before him all the days of our Life Fourthly We likewise find this expressed by Simeon immediately upon his Birth Luke 2. 32. Where having called him God's Salvation which He had prepared before the face of all people he adds that He is a Light to lighten the Gentiles whereby is meant that he should bring them into the way of Righteousness and true Holiness Holiness is in not a few places expressed by the Metaphor of Light and Wickedness by that of Darkness Turning from Darkness to Light is