Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	government_n	state_n	2,773	4	5.6675	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81699	The Downfall of the Fifth Monarchy. Or, The personal reign of Christ on earth, confuted. Discovering the desperate and dangerous principles and designes of these frenzy-conceited men of the Fifth Monarchy; who pretending to do the work of their generations, seek to involve these nations again in bloud and misery, had not the Lord prevented them in their designe; with a brief manifestation of the true generation work which every good Christian ought to do.		1657 (1657)	Wing D2092; Thomason E1637_3; ESTC R209052	6,826	17

the Text with ten thousands of his Saints to execuee judgement upon all and to convince all And Psal 96. 13. For lo he commeth for he commeth faith the Psalmist but it is not personally to raign but to judge the earth Even so come Lord Jesus come quickly I deny not but that the Lord Jesus Christ shall in these latter days have amost glorious Kingdom in the world but then it shall be a spiritual and holy Kingdome in the hearts and lives of his people And thus hath Christ reigned in some measure more or less ever since his comming in the flesh yea ever since the beginning of the world and thus and thus onely shall Christ raign till we all come to raign with him in heaven For he must raign saith the Apostle 1 Cor. 15. till he hath put all his enemies under his feet Likewise also consider how detogarory this doctrine of an earthly reign is to the honour and dignity of the Lord Jesus Christ what is Christ gone to heaven there to live and reign as Lord and King for ever with his Father and shall men conceit or imagine that he shall leave his Fathers glory and a most glorious and heavenly Kingdom for an earthly Kingdom Certainly this is a most gross absurdity and great affront to the honour and dignity of the Lord Jesus Christ thus to conceit is not he King over all and doth hee not rule in the Kingdoms of men Is not the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and shal any ignoble him so as have him to have but an earthly Kingdome to rule and govern like a Monarch in the world O horrible indignity This fond conceit of Christ personal raign upon earth may be likened to the fond conceit and blind opinion of the Jews who looking for the glorious comming of Christ as their King to live and raign as a King and Monarch upon earth could not stoop so low as to see him lying in a manger which fond opinion of theirs they were and are even at this very day so confident of that they both flight and despise the comming of Christ indeed and so I pray God out Monarchical generation Workmen who would pull down Christ from his throne in Heaven to set him up upon earth I pray God I say that these men bee not found to bee the men that resist and withstand both the Kingdome and power of Jesus Christ Certainly these mens doctrines let them say what they will are altogether Antichristian and abhominable Another design of these generation Workmen in which they have not been a little active is to cry down all institution of Government both in Church and State though never so sacred as Antichristian and unlawful thereby seeking like cunning Engineers to undermine both Religion and Government in its very foundation but how Antichristian and unlawful the designes and actings of these very men themselves are is not a little apparent Hath God in his word set up Governours and Government in the world and as he himself saith it is by him that Kings raigne and Princes decree justice and shal these men in their blind zeal go about to throw them down Did Christ himself and all his Disciples after him pray for and quietly submit themselves in all godliness and honesty to the government of these men when they lived giving them all honour and paying tribute and custome to them and shal Mr. Feak and Mr. Rogers and others of this generation preach against and pray against all Government and Governours O horrible Antichristian doctrine Do these men preach the Gospel certainly no. Doth the word of God 1 Tim. 2. 2 commend men that are in authority and shal these men go about to pull down all rule and authority May we if we our selves wil lead a quiet and peaceable life under our Governours and government in all godliness and honesty and shal we with tumults go about to embroil our selves and the whole Nation in bloud and misery Doth the word of God Rom. 13. 1 2. say expresly that there is no power but of God and that the powers which now are are of God who setteth up and pulleth down whom he pleases and shal these men say they are not of God but of Antichrist Certainly this is no other then to give God the lye Must we be subject as the word of God saith not onely for wrath but for conscience sake and shall men under vain pretences of they know not what refuse to yeeld subjection and contrive plot and conspire against them and their authority What is this but instead of setting of Christ up to raign but to pull Christ down from his throne Are not these then strange and unheard of doctrines the Lord convince them of their folly and give them a sight and sense of their errors Another doctrine and designe of these men altogether as derogatory from the truth as the other is this That that the government of the world shal be invested into the hands of the Saints of whom they think themselves to bee chie● which doctrine how pernitious and destructive it hath been former ages have sadly experienced I confess it were a good thing and desirable and I would to God it might so be that all Governors whatsoever might be good and upright men men fearing God and hating covetousness that our Princes may be Peace and our Exactors righteousness that so judgement and justice might run down like a mighty stream this indeed were a good thing and a thing greatly to be desired and which indeed ought to bee endeavoured after by all And I could wish that all those whose right it is both to chuse and constitute Officers of all sorts would on all occasions make choise of such men But to teach or maintain that Saints as Saints ought to bear rule in the world is derogatory from the rule of Scripture and would bee pernitious if not destructive to all humane society Lastly I wish those men themselves thus engaged in the work of their generation as they say and all others seriously to consider how greatly they advance thy Kingdome of Satan above the Kingdome of Christ for it 's the Devils doctrine to preach down government and Governours it 's his work to pull down Ministers and Ministry yea it is the Devils main design to root out of the world both Ministry and Magistracy and all other Schools of Learning good education and knowledge for it 's the Ministers by their preaching the Gospel that oppose the Kingdom of Satan And it 's not a little considerable how highly these men go about to gratifie as well the bloudy Papists as the Devil also what more can the Devil or the Papists wish or desire then to see Learning and knowledg taken away from among us who then shall bee able to resist or gainsay their ridiculous soul-damning desperate doctrine and tradition how soon then will men be infected with the poyson of Popery and how easily