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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	nature_n	spirit_n	1,729	5	5.0066	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52687	A door opened to the imprisoned seed in the vvorld, and the way of freedom by the spirit of truth, sent out into the world in love to the sheep that have long been lost, which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they possess, and may shew the feigned & false in heart, the cause why they are shut out of truths power : wherein the elect way is opened to the blind, with encouragements to enter and walk therein : also the fruits of the free-born cleared from legal performances, and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works : Christ Jesus known to be king in his temples, through the power of the Holy Ghost, and sword of the spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true judgment / by J.N.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1667 (1667)	Wing N277; ESTC R23128	41,513	48

holy movings in them by which the holy men of God spoke saw and discerned in all Ages as the Scriptures do testifie all which is lost in that man who is exalted above the pure Light and lowly Spirit in which God meets man to teach him the knowledge of the Truth And therefore you Teachers and People of all sorts and Sects who so violently have set your selves against the Light of the Spirit within you and within others when it calls to you for a return to it How long will you kick against that which pricks you at the heart for your contrary walkings and dissembling professions why will you not be still and commune with it in your own hearts that you might come to a true feeling and discern what nature it is of and from whence it is and what way it works and against what And also what nature that is in you which it chiefly condemns and works against and from whence that is that so with the Light of Truth you might come to judge things that differ in the ground and in the end that you might so come to walk in the Light in Judgment and in Truth of Heart towards God and man And let the single Truth of God without mixture answer these things following feelingly in you What is the cause that while you are professing to seek God and serve him you should be so unwilling to serve him in that which is of his own Nature and to worship him in Spirit and Truth in your own Vessels whose bodies should be the Temples of God who is not worship'd in Temples made with hands nor in a nature contrary to himself Or will the talking of what he is or was in others in whom he was known to walk and speak deliver your Souls from the power of the Prince of darkness and deceit that is in your selves unless you can by Faith receive him in you also as they received him and feel his Power overcoming and casting out him that hath you captive at his will against your Faith and Conscience Or will God be found in you or accept your worship whilst his Temple is possessed with his enemy and a contrary nature acts you therein Can you meet with God in any thing but that which is Holy who hears not the prayer of him that regards iniquity Wherefore your first work should be to know him in you whom God accepts for he alone must present you to the Father who appears without sin understand what I say he that appears without sin else you are reprobate in Gods sight there is no hope without Christ in you and you in him the everlasting Priest to offer up upon the Altar of atonement Holiness must make one in Spirit and though by the height of your minds he that is without sin be low and little in you yet without me you can do nothing saith Christ Jesus mind what he saith you can do nothing Then what are you doing who are not in the holy Spirit Can you worship by Tradition or be saved by the Letter will you make Christ a lyar who saith Without me you can do nothing I am the Light of the world every branch saith Christ that abideth not in me is cast out and withereth and is for the fire Mind this you that reject holiness in Spirit and light from the holy Spirit in you Are you not cut off who are not in that which is holy are you not withered and for the fire Are you not cast out who have no abiding-place in that which is holy and a light in that which is holy Mind what is withered in you and what is fruitful Have you power light and knowledge in you to do evil but not to do well Are you not withered then unto God are you not cut off from the natural Son and planted in a wild Vine of a contrary nature Your light is withered and your seed corrupted and your tree is known by its fruits which now is green and brings forth but not to God nor from God who are cut off and withered without light in you without Christ in you without God in you to keep you not so much Truth in your inward parts as is able to teach you to make you free here is your loss and nakedness manifest and the short bed and the narrow garment who have not so much of the holy Spirit as will cover you nor bear you harmless Now will you say you hope you are born again of the Spirit and are baptized into the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and worship in the Spirit and then are gone out for Salvation and Light and speak evil of that within as not able to bear you against him that is of the world Now your Hope is not an Anchor nor your Faith in that which overcomes by birth as the Saints do Whosoever is born of God overcomes the World And he that is begotten of God keepeth himself that the evil-one toucheth him not Now mind Where is he that keepeth himself and where is the evil-one Let Truth answer in you if there be any knowledge of God in the house Is not that he who gives you light that would keep you from the evil-one and should you not be one in Him that would keep you from evil Who is your Keeper Watchmen that are blind Do not you watch in vain who know not the Lord to keep your City else how should the evil-one have his liberty in and out without a powerful resisting consider in your selves Where is he that gives you to see when the evil-one toucheth you and when he tempteth but toucheth not What nature is he of that doth this for you and where is he Is he not light and understanding and is he not in you and is he not of a contrary nature to the evil-one that tempteth And doth he not shew you the temptation before you consent thereto if you mind him Then what is the cause that the evil is committed seeing a Light and Nature appears against him Is it not because you joyn to the evil-one and like his motion better than his that testifies it to be evil And so you deny the Holy-One and the Just and become one with the evil-one And then you say The Light is not able when you have denyed it and have not been faithful to joyn to it in counsel and strength but have given your strength to the contrary but they that are born of it do not so but when they are shewed the evil-one and his temptation be it what ever it be to or under what pretence soever if the Light testifies against it Then is their diligence watchfulness and sobriety used against it in the fear of God lest they should be drawn from the Light and enticed and with all their power they joyn in obedience to the way of the Light so that there is a war and wrestling ere the thing be over and being resisted

being blinded by the god of this world which should give the sight thereof and that seed in bondage under the prince of darkness which should give to inherit that immortal Treasure and this must be till there be a denying and coming out of the World to receive that inheritance of divine Light and understanding which none can receive nor be one withal but as they come out of the world from under that seed of enmity which seeks to pervert all the right wayes of God and wrest all his gifts to mans destruction as far as he can prevail Now this destroyer or seed of enmity against the Life of man and his Salvation is kept from that sudden effecting his purpose upon the creature in whom he is head by no other thing but the patience and long-sufferings of God who willing that none of his Creatures should perish but that if by any means all might hearken to the Truth and so recover themselves out of the snares of this subtile deceiver and be saved wherefore he doth many times long bear and forbear with much patience and diligence striving by the Spirit of Truth upon all occasions when ever the Creature doth but mind it checking and reproving and warning even many times at that very instant when the act of sin is committing and if the evil one have got such power in the creature that he will not suffer him to mind reproof before nor in the act of sin then afterwards when the heat of temptation is cooled then he shews the evil and danger of such wickedness that so he might preserve fear in him against the next temptation And thus in many he keeps back destruction a long time so that some are long ere the wicked one get them to fill up their measure and some in that time of Gods patient forbearing and suffering come to repentance and turn to that which reproves and are saved and others go on to destruction which swiftly they draw upon themselves after once the Spirit hath ceased striving and reproving for then the fear is lost and the evil one hath his liberty at his own will the Creature being given up of the Lord and the Spirit of Truth being wholly departed nought but deceit is left to guide him who hath dealt deceitfully with the Spirit of Truth which at the best hath but a form of godliness without the Power for the Power of God is in that Spirit and in that Life which is known by withstanding the evil one which is fallen and covered in such in whom death reigns only such who are born of the Spirit have the Life and Power and know its strength and virtue unto eternal Salvation the rest are left to their thoughts and notions And here is the cause of that strong contention that hath ever been betwixt the Children of Light who are born of that Spirit of Truth and have their light and strength in the inward man and the worlds professors whose expectation stands in something without them which others have spoken of who had it in them and so not knowing the Power and Mystery of the living Faith which is holden in a pure Conscience which only hath the Call and Power to bring out of the worlds darkness they are kept captive therein contending against the Spiritual Light and so while they are in the world go about to comprehend and measure that Spirit of Truth which the world cannot receive neither knoweth thinking that Spirit of Light and Life to have no other op●●●●ion in such who are led out of the world and born thereof and in whom Christ lives than they find it to have in themselves who stumble at it and are disobedient and unbelieving in heart when as indeed to us that believe it is Elect and Precious who come to it for all supplies but to the wisdom and profession of the world it is a Rock of offence and stumbling-stone yet is it the Head of the Corner and in them who revile it and reject it it is become all they have in them that is good true and faithful towards God or their Souls as their hearts in secret do witness to them and leaves them without excuse many times For even they that reject this Light and Spirit have nothing else that can shew them so much as one of their thoughts or divide to their understanding the evil from the good either in Thought Word or Action or that can really shew them what is of God really and what is of him who doth but shew himself to be God to deceive withal and is not nor without it can they perceive the several motions of every several spirit that is in them to receive the good and deny the bad nor can they know the several roots of Life and Death which plant to pluck up and which to feed on and how can such labour in Gods Vineyard And indeed without this Light the Body is a house of darkness and a habitation of every deceitful spirit and the heart desperately wicked and no man knows it but he in whom the Light of Truth shineth and he that declares to man his thoughts his Name is the Lord of Hosts Thus is he the Head of the Corner which the stumbler cannot comprehend in his wit and so rejects him without whom there is no building nor working the Work of God And therefore you sons of the darkness of this World mind in your selves what it is you set your selves against is it not that Light which would limit and chain the evil one in you that which condemns you for every evil work secret and open which will not let you be proud and wanton and lustful that which in your own hearts testifies against you for deceit and falshood towards God and towards men deceit in Religion hypocrisie and falshood making a form of what you are not deceit in your dealing with men in your tradings and speakings and severall actings both as Rulers Priests and People without respect of persons nor any other thing but hath respect onely to that of God in you which is of his Nature given to you to guide man in the Light of God out of all the wayes of this deceiving spirit And now he that comes to you with this Doctrine comes near you being manifest in Spirit to that of God in your own hearts you are pricked therewith and then the evil one is stirred up in you to fight against that which is Truth in your selves and answers to the Truth which is spoken to you by another without you from the same Spirit of Truth which by you is rejected And thus you joyning with him that rises up in wrath against the Truth in your selves and denying that which should chain and bind the evil one you deny the Lord of Life and give strength to the evil one to murther the Just in you and quench the Spirit of Truth and weary the Lord with striving till you be given up