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spirit_n	assembly_n	heaven_n	zion_n	240	3	8.6055	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63517	The true Englishman, humbly proposing something to rid us of the plot in the state and of contentions in the church wherein is shown how our King may be the happy healer of nations / by a Philopolite ; and published by his neighbour, Philotheus.	Philopolite.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2697; ESTC R34079	69,739	140

are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise think on these things These are some hints at the State of Love which may suffice to prove that whereever it doth preside or prevail it settleth and secureth happiness It is true the number who inhabit this Canaan are too few yet this is to be said they are all choice i. e. Chosen Ones and though not as an Earthly or Temporal state yet as single Inhabitants who are to live for ever they have in their eye and go step by step daily towards an exalted place and to a more numerous Company which in perfection and glory excel Humane conception One caught up thither for a moments view or some other like him hath told us so far as he could of these unutterable things that it is Mount Sion and the City of the living God Heb 12.22 23 24. the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels to the general Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the judge of all and the Spirits of Just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant and to the blood of Sprinkling that speaking better things than that of Abel To this they move not in uncertainty for they are on the foundation of God 2 Tim. 2.19 which standeth sure having this Seal the Lord knoweth them to be his and they depart from iniquity Beside there the fore-runner is for them entred Heb 6.19 20. 1 Cor. 15. Joh. 14.1 2 3. Acts 1.11 1 Thess 4.14 c. even JESVS who became a-kin to them to purchase it and was the first-begotten from the dead as to assure them of it so to go before to make the way accessible to them and to prepare a place for them And hereafter as an Harbinger to come back again and meet them in most glorious manner and so lead them thither Which hope they have and use as an anchor of the Soul Heb. 6.19 both sure and stedfast i.e. keeps them from being tost or shipwreckt with the billows of the World and which entreth into that within the Veil as being able thereby to see through afflictions and to see beyond them daies of Peace and release here and further to see into the eternal and far more exceeding weight of glory 2 Cor. 4.16 17 18. that holy and happy place whereinto none but the true Christian enters One would forego any Lust and use the utmost diligence to be imbodied with these men who practise and hope as you have heard See how in troops they march Woodford Psal 84. till all at length To Sion come and there renew their strength Object But do we not find the contrary Are not the Religious and Vertuous oft despised oppressed c. Answ 1 True they are so but with it they have to over ballance it to weigh it down so that those you call Oppressions c. are light and as but for a moment to them for they are chosen of God Jam. 2.5 1 Cor. 1.20 27 c. rich in Faith supported and comforted by invisible and Divine assistances as St. Paul was 2 Cor. 4.8 c. Answ 2 So far as they for Vertues sake are afflicted they gain thereby having therefore those supports and strong Consolations here and the farther degrees of glory hereafter which without them they would not have had Answ 3 Sometime their Troubles come on them through their own defect in Religion In that case Vertue is not to be charged but Sin as the culpable and procuring cause of them Answ 4 This objected is not to my Argument being directable only to single persons I challenge any to name the time wherein any People were distressed or despised who were united to God and to each other as I have described a Nation to be whose temper is Love Section II. Of such force is Love's tendancy to Happiness though there be many in a State who in temper are as Spirits created or used for Vengeance to punish or destroy yet if one Principal therein be Goodness or Love he soon changeth or soon subdueth them under him Psal 47.9 One Shield of the Earth of this temper in his Dominion will quench in a moment all the fiery darts of the wicked Of these Impiety and Ill-will are not the least which like poysonous Darts inflame the parts that are wounded with them and once removed comes ease and pleasure in their stead Oh happy Nation when thus cured and most blessed of God is the Royal Physician who so healeth us Having spoken this I purpose to make it good i.e. to prove it true so well as with my designed brevity I can And in truth I think it needs no forreign aid Behold the sense of the Proposition and it will confirm it self I am well assured no one of Mr. Serjants Self-evidencing Principles comes near this Self-evident thing No other appearance now in Flesh can be more a God and is it hard to come at this Notion that Almighty and all Goodness and all Bliss is in him I am most satisfied that this is the Thing which shall go on conquering and to conquer if God use any thing Humane to bring in Everlasting Righteousnes and Peace unto the Nations For what below God can do more thereto in the Kingdoms of Men than a King 1 Sincerely Pious without the enforcement either of Adversity or of some regard of State 2 Preferrer of the Publick weal before all other respects whatsoever Like the Saviour of the World who though he was rich yet became poor that we through his poverty might be made rich I presume my Reader to be a Man i.e. one who takes in the sense and not the sound of these words I intend not to put meanness or poverty into his Character but that of Grace like to what St. Paul saith we know to be in Christ 1 Cor. 8.9 a King who is forward and sincere in Love always giving testimony thereof in his dealings towards his Subjects who is disposed to exhaust himself when necessary to common salvation whereby his love becomes his liberality and bounty to them He that finds this King is come to the procurer of general peace and quiet He may as one saith err and must die but Fame will free him from both errour and from death both with and without the help of Time Because Generals may not sufficiently impress I will come to particular evidence hereof 1 From the Ordination of God 2 The Government of God 3 Happiness is connatural to his temper and practice who as Head causeth it to be so unto the whole Body To the two first of these enough hath been said already I will more particularly though very briefly discourse the latter But before we enter thereon let us refresh our selves a little by singing with tuneable hearts to God's glory and in