Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	heaven_n	jesus_n	king_n	1,768	5	3.5275	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02036	Pauls crovvne of reioycing. Or The maner how to heare the word with profit. By Thomas Granger preacher of the word at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston in Lincolnshire; Pauls crowne of rejoycing.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12182; ESTC S114984	43,435	71

the most high This is expresly commanded Deut. 11. 19. We must speake of the Commandements continually when wee sit at home when wee walke by the way when wee rise vp and when we lye downe but they that do thus by your confession shall lose their friends if they lose their friendship of sinners to obtaine the friendship of God and his Angells it is a gainefull losse for there be more with them then against them Whereas you say a wonted Prouerbe among prophane people A booke in the Pocket a Deuill in the heart There be some that carry no bookes in their pockets nor yet good words in their mouthes which notwithstanding haue the Deuill in their hearts All are not bad that carry good bookes with them nor all good that haue no bookes It is a Prouerbe among you hee that doth as the Preacher would haue him doe shall die a beggar but there be some which dye beggars because they will not doe as the Preacher would haue them And I my selfe haue heard some say bring not vp your sonne in learning for it will make him a bad husband but there be some bad husbands that were neuer brought vp in learning You call your honest men needy in way of contempt It is as easie for the rich man to scorne the poore for his pouerty as it is for the fat Oxe that is ready for the shambles to tread the feeble vnder feete The holy man Dauid was pestered and pushed at with such fat Bulls of Basan Psal 22. 12. and bark't at with such dogs verse 16. so was Christ also whereof he was a figure and so are and shall all Christians especially the poore that can least helpe themselues Marke well what our Sauiour Christ saith It is as hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of Heauen as for a gable rope to passe through the eye of a needle The temptations of Mammon preuaile so much with them as that they cannot subiect their hearts to the Gospell they will not haue Iesus Christ to be King and ruler ouer them like the murtherous Husbandmen in the Gospell they cannot abide to do homage to Christ such manner of seruice is too base with the proud and licentious worldlings It will not afford such meat drinke and cloth as a man should haue and there is no liberty but continuall paines-taking Lewd seruants that take no pleasure in their Masters profit nor delight in a well ordered family loue to serue dissolute and prodigall masters where they may haue great wages to maintaine pride wantonnes and gaming and where they may haue full scope and liberty to say and doe what they list Euen so most rich men and all worldlings haue no pleasure at all in the profiting of Christ by their faithfull seruice neither haue any delight in his gouernment and family there is so much strictnesse curiousnesse and base work but they must serue golden Mammon that will giue them wage enough they shall want nothing that will doe them good for there is neither pinching nor sparing neither shall they be restrained of their liberty Now seeing that these worldlings are such bad and froward seruants Christ which is a straight and hard man and therefore lookes to haue his businesse well followed and to receiue his owne with aduantage will haue those that haue not dwelt in wanton and prodigall houses where there is nothing but eating and drinking mirth and pastime but hee hath chosen the poore and needy to confound the rich the foolish and simple to confound the wise and the learned the weake and helplesse to bring to naught the mighty and the strong 1 Cor. 1. 26. 27. 28. This Scripture is fulfilled in your owne eyes in your owne towne and yet you cannot see it because he lookes on the heart and hath mercy on whom he will and you contrarily looke on the outward appearance and iudge thereafter In Marke 6. Christ preacheth in his owne country and worketh miracles there also but how do they heare him and receiue him Whence hath he this doctrine What wisedome is this that is giuen him How doth hee worke such great wonders Is hee not a carpenter are not his Mother Brethren and Sisters with vs But heere was all and therefore Christ maruelled at their vnbeleefe In the weake and meane outward appearance of Christ they might the more clearely haue seene the power wisedome and glory of God had they not beheld him with fleshly and carnall eyes So may you see the mercy grace and goodnes of God in opening the eyes of your poore men tradesmen labouring men vnlearned men men of no education of no meanes such as the Disciples were not so sensible and so wise as some of your rich men are not booke-learned as they are not at leysure as they are but alwaies in some labour and trauell and yet can they put downe all your sensible men in reasoning and your fine Latine Preacher with them Is not this the power of God inlightning their mindes mollifying their hearts with the oyle of grace and sanctifying the word vnto them which they heare Heereupon comes this difference betweene them and the rich and betweene other poore men and them They hunger and thirst after the word of God therefore God satisfieth their soules with God and they are fatte and well-liking the rich haue not this spirituall hungar and thirst and therfore they are sent empty away Luk. 1. 53. These poore men among you whom God hath receiued to mercy you call pratling fellowes beggarly persons Putricans with other mocking vngodly and enuious termes Our Sauiour Christs countrimen admired his doctrine wisedome miracles but euer in the end they came in with their But He is but a Carpenter but of meane parentage but of meane education c. Euen so doe you come in alwaies with your But but hee is no Scholler but he is no linguist but our rich men and great men regard him not hee is but this he is but that so you make this But a stumbling blocke or rather a brazen wall to separate you from Gods Kingdome The Lord turne your hearts Againe you say such poore men should mind their businesse and not runne to Sermons this running to Sermons indeede is a great beame in your eyes you commonly iudge them vnthrifts that spend an houre in the weeke day at a Sermon but you neuer speake of them that spend many houres in the weeke in idle talke or at the Ale-house Nay I haue heard your owne tongue commend a trades-man for his orderly course of life and among other things that hee would goe twise or thrise in the weeke to the Ale-house if hee liked the company but he duely kept his stint hee would not passe his houre vnlesse by great chance Neither doe I simply disallow this thing in him but if he bestowed one of these houres in the hearing of a Sermon I should thinke the better of him