Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
book_n world_n write_v wrong_v 35 3 8.9913 4 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A60558 The blessed works of the light of God's holy and blessed spirit exalted above the works of darkness with some informations how to escape out of sin and iniquity, and a clear way discovered into the truth : with a short testimony of the cry of Babylon's merchants by reason of the day that is coming upon them / [by] Stephen Smith. Smith, Stephen, 1623-1678. 1673 (1673) Wing S4212; ESTC R37568 21,102 40

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

And is not this Christ of God the Way out of Transgression who was obedient and subject to the Will of his Father in all things And must not they all that are saved be brought into this blessed Covenant of Life the End of God's great Love in his Son manifested to the World that through him they might not abide and perish in Darkness but through believing and obeying that Second Coming and Appearance of the Light of him they might have the Light and Understanding of the Life of him the one blessed Offering that perfects forever them that are sanctified And now all you blind Leaders of the Blind under all your Imaginary Lifeless Confessions and Professions of God and Christ what strength of Arguments do you use in your perverse Wills and Affections to strengthen the Old World of Transgression in Sin and Iniquity whereby you go about with all your Might to make void the Second Covenant which is without Fault and so you shut up the Way to God's Kingdom and the Knowledge of his Righteousness by labouring and moiling in your vain Service and Works to establish your own Righteousness and dark Works therein And by this Fruitless Labour and Travel what Darkness and Blindness have you brought over the Nations through your ignorant Conceivings of those gratious Words which were spoken by the effectual working and moving of God's Holy Spirit in and through Holy Men the which was for a blessed End spoken even to turn people from the Darkness which was over them by reason of Transgression unto the true Witness in them the Light that makes manifest all that is reprovable and wicked in Mankind the which being turned from and the Light obeyed that they may be led to the Knowledge of God that they may not be without God in the World whom to know is Life Eternal And so Light is sown for the Righteous that through this blessed Seed the Serpent's Head may be bruised and kept under in all and so is way made to put on the Heavenly Image again by being led and guided out of Darkness by the Light of the Emanuel in and through every blessed and glorious Degree of his Works to the Mark of that Price the Measure and Stature of the Fulness of Christ Jesus the Heavenly Man the Heavenly Image as many as are baptized into Christ put on Christ Now I say unto you blind Leaders of the Blind who have got some few of the Gratious Words and Works of the Righteous Men of God therefore I say but few of them because there is but little upon record of those mighty Works which did then shew forth the Wonderful Power of God in and by the effectual Workings of his holy blessed Spirit the which if all had been written the World could not have contained the Books and of that which was written you have but a part with which you blind Leaders of the Blind have made a long Trade in Wresting Perverting and Corrupting to your own Destruction making them look every way but the right in your Imaginary Conceivings thereof So wrong you are in your Judgments who have denyed the effectual Workings of God's Holy Spirit that what in you lies by your Works of Darkness you are making void God's Holy Law and Covenant as to any true Understanding or Knowledge of it in the Mind and Heart And so building your selves up in Imaginations and Conceivings what Strangers are you to God's Holy Works in and by the effectual Working of his holy Spirit within Man How brutish are you in your Understandings to stand and wonder and some to despise till they perish at the News of these Works though God hath raised many faithful Witnesses who have declared and given Testimony to them even to the laying down their Lives and many their Liberties and in great measure their Estates whereby it hath plainly shewed That this is the Time and Season wherein God is making known his Mighty Power for the subduing and bringing under the Power of Darkness that the Kingdoms of this World may become the Kingdoms of God and that the Kingdom of his Son which is in Righteousness Peace and Joy of his blessed holy Spirit may be set over all And is not this according to that Prayer Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done on Earth c Now consider Are not all those Wayes destructive to Mankind that are made up in the dark Conceivings of Man without the Light of understanding the Will of God herein And by your Works of Darkness in opposing the Blessed and Effectual Works of God's holy Spirit what Misery and Confusion have you brought your selves and the Nations into where you lie in Heaps in Controversies about the Works and Words without till the Enemy's works of Darkness be over-grown in you by which you are so droven from the Presence of God and the Light of his Countenance that you are greatly confounded kicking and stumbling at the pretious Stone the which in your Fleshly Worldly Wisdom you think too mean to be in your Buildings by reason of which how many Fashions are your Buildings of reeling and staggering from one Fashion to another soaring aloft in your airy Imaginations of the things of God in using your Wits and Arts to bend the Holy Men's Testimonies to your corrupt Wills and Affections And so much more as you strive in these Works so much more you are and must be confounded What a sad Work have you herein taken in hand and what vast Sums of Money have you exacted out of Nations to maintain the Pride and Arrogancy of your hearts herein Oh! that there were such a Heart in people to sit down before the Lord that they may partake so much of his blessed Works as to open the Eye of their Understandings that they may see over these Works of Darkness where nothing is good nor pleasant to the truly Hungering and Thirsting Souls after God's Righteousness How miserably have these Nations been cheated by these blind Guides who have exacted abundance of Wages under Pretence of being Healers and Curers of the Nations but are now found by the Effectual Workings of the Light of God's holy Spirit to be the chief Instruments of the letting in of Darkness Corruption and Abominations that raign on the Earth Through that Adulterated Spirit the Mother of all Harlots who are departed from the true Spouse and so running and hunting after others Blessed Works and Experiences have set up Trades in their Arts of telling and boasting of others Lines and Works where that Adulterated Spirit hath covered them who are corrupted with her Sorceries and VVitchcraft under various Fashions of Confessions and Professions of God and his Christ But underneath these Coverings are the same wicked hands by which the Just hath suffered and been rejected and set at nought in all Ages And through the blessed VVorks of the Light of God's holy Spirit these Corrupt Workers and Works of Darkness being discovered and a