Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	life_n	open_v	work_n	2,866	5	5.7385	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56434	A shield of the truth, or, The truth of God cleared from scandals and reproaches cast upon it by scandalous and reproachfull tongues which the devil in all ages did make use of, whereby he blasphemed the truth of God, striving to present it odious in the eyes and ears of all people, that so he might uphold his own kingdom, but the day hath made him manifest, & the Lord is come, & is coming to make war with him, and bind him, and cast him into the bottomless pit and all who bears his image, and under his dominion is written by ... Iames Parnel.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P533; ESTC R20838	39,279	50

the unlearned which are strangers from his conditions who reads them with the carnal eye now perverts and wrests to their own destruction and this we witness who through the Lamb our Saviour do reign above the World Death Hel and the Devil but none can witness this whose eye is outward looking at a Redeemer a farre off and still live in sin but who cannot witnesse this Redemption here must never witnesse it for as the tree falls so it lies and sin is the mark of the Beast and who lives in sin hath the mark of the Beast and bears his Image and it is written that the Beast and false Prophets and all that have his Mark or Image must be cast into the Lake that burneth and must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture But as for that Scripture that saith If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us All have sinned and fallen from the Lord and he that hath sin and saith he hath no sinne deceiveth himself and is a lyar but if he confesse and forsake his sin God is faithful and just to forgive him his sin and to cleanse him from all unrighteousness and this John witnessed and he that can witness this is no lyar if he say he is cleansed from all unrighteousness but witness forth the truth and a perfect Redemption and the same John sayd He that is born of God sins not neither can he sin because his seed remaineth in him and he that sinnes is of the Devil and n●ver knew God By this are the children of God and the children of the Devil made manifest this John witnessed he was no lyar neither did deceive himself but spoke the truth and the same John said God is light and in him is no darkness at all If we say we have fellowship with God and walk in darknesse we lye and doe not the truth but if we walk in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin this John witnessed he was no lyar neither did deceive himself and this John sayd He that hath hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure and faith in God purifieth the heart Now try your Faith and hope who plead for sin for sin lodgeth in the heart and while there is sin the heart is unclean now here you may see al your faith is vain your hope which doth not purifie the heart and so it is feigned hypocrites faith not faith in God and so perisheth and who can witness Christ died for them have passed through death for none can live with him but those who dye with him and this is the true Baptism to be baptized into his death by one spirit into one body and how can they that are dead to sin live any longer therein and who can witnesse this hath faith in him which purifieth the heart and removes mountains and the pure in heart sees God and this the Apostles witnessed that he was made free from sin and more than Conqueror through Faith in Christ Jesus he was no lyar and said that Christ was come to redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinkle and though once they were sinners like the world but they were washed and cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus and the spirit of our God and had put off the Old man and put on the New which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness but this you are strangers from who plead for sin are such as call your selves a Church and are not but the synagogue of Sathan in whom the Prince of darknesse reigns which ruleth in the children of disobedience and as for that which blinde people calls Scripture who sayes The righteous man that is sins seven times a day there is no such Scripture for it is false but though the righteous fall he riseth again by repentance and this the holy men of God witnessed and though David through lust disobeyed the Lord and forgot his God yet he rose again by repentance and after witnessed that he walked in the midst of his house in the purenesse of his spirit and though Peter sinned through weaknesse yet he rose againe by repentance and afterward exhorted the Church to be holy as God is holy but this you cannot witness who plead for sin and are not yet come to repentance but denies Christ daily and are convinced but doth not repent but they who dwel in the righteousness of Christ sin not for they that are alive in righteousness are dead to sin and they that live in sinne are dead to righteousness but how can they that are dead to sin live any longer therein and this is the Devil which pleads for sin the enemy of the soul for by sin did he obtain his kingdome and so his kingdome stands in sin and your Teachers which tels you you can never get out of sin nor be cleansed from sin here erres not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God but denies the end of Christs coming and brings another doctrine which they have from their Father the Devil and so are the deceivers which Paul speakes of who creep into Steeple-houses leads silly people captive full of sin and corruption ever learning and never come to the knowledge of truth and so are not to be received but held as accursed for they daub you up with untempered mortar seeing vanity and divining lyes who saith the Lord saith when he never spoke to them they have healed the hurt of the people slightly and have sowed pillows under their armholes crying peace when there is no peace because they put into their mouthes and they are not ashamed neither doe they blush therefore they shall fall amongst them that fall in the day that I visit them saith the Lord And these are your Teachers that makes you habitation in your sin while you are upon the earth and so your Leaders cause you to erre but when the day of account comes wherein the bookes must be opened and every one judged out of the books according to their works by him who sits upon the white Throne and all must be cast into the Lake that burneth but those whose names are written in the book of life and then you will finde those the utter enemies of your soules who perswades your hearts in sins and he that hath no sin will be in the best condition and here all your feigned formed faith is unbottomed and all your Priests found lyars deceivers and Anti-christs in whom the false Prophet rules which deceives the Nations who must be cast also into the Lake that burneth and there tormented for ever and all that uphold him We are accused to deny Christ come in the flesh We witness the same Christ which ever was