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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	know_v	life_n	2,879	5	4.5653	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89843	Love to the lost: and a hand held forth to the helpless, to lead out of the dark. Wherein is plainly held out divers perticular things, as they are learned of Christ; and are most needfull to be known of all who profess godliness. Set forth chiefly for the directing the simple into the living way of truth, as it is in Christ Jesus, the Righteous, that therein they may come to the life and power of that which the world hath in words; which being received, satisfies the weary soul, and makes the creature wel-pleasing to his maker. Wherein also there is some reproofs to the dark world. / By one that seeks the redemption of Sions seed, and a lover of the creation of God, who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N294; Thomason E866_2; ESTC R207630	74,213	79

the hidden man of the heart must you look to find it which is not Corruptible Concerning Light and Life GOd is the life of every Creature though few there be that know it for the darknesse sees him not nor his life though the Children of Darknesse have got words in the Scripture which were given forth from the light to talk of yet God such know not present for the first beginning of God in the world is lighr God said let there he light and it was so And this light God saw that it was good This is that which was in the beginning with God the Word by which all things were made and seen and without this was nothing made that was made nor any thing seen to be good and darknesse was over the face of all the waters till the light which from the Word came who is the Life which life is the light of men So none can see the life but with the light which from the life comes which to the life leads all that follow it So this that was in the beginning is given to keep in order all the Creation That is good but the darknesse comprehends it not though it shine in it so all that abide in the darknesse are destroyed not discerning the life to order and govern the Creation in the light So all that go out of the light go into the darknesse and there the life and Image of God is lost and there is the Fall and all who there abide are reserved in Chaines of darknesse not knowing the life which breaks the Bonds and Chains of Iniquity and opens the Grave and Prison door And here the Soul being in death breathing after the Life but Darknesse got above In the darknesse is the Creature led into Sects Opinions and Errours after the Imaginations to seek life but further it runs here to the sensuall Wisdome further into Death and Darknesse till the Creature be so blinded in the understanding that he thinks and imagins he doth God service when he is acting against the life of God both in himself and others so comes the Creature of God and his Life wherewith God did furnish him to do his Will wholly to be lost and the Gospel hid that should recover him again the God of this World having so blinded the mind and thereby so farre alienated him from the life of God that he neither hath power and life to do the will of God nor light to know where to have it yet in this condition of death and darknesse and without the life of God shall the Creature never be without profession or some conceit or other to keep in a vain hope of salvation And here is the sole ground and cause why we have so many sorts of formes and opinions and wayes of worship but none that doth good nor lives in what they say because all have lost the life of God which onely is able to bri●g forth the righteousnesse of God And selfe having got the form into the Imagination above the life cannot receive the light that l●es under that condemns it So all the world lies in darkensse yea thick darknesse is upon all the seas and great depths is covered with grosse darknesse and from thence is the Imagination spread over all so that none can witnesse the work of God neither knows the beginning nor end thereof And this is the cause of condemnation and it rests upon all who are out of the life of God And no other way there is appointed of the Father to come out of this condition but Christ Jesus the light and life of men who is the light that is in the world though the world know him not which light shines in darknesse but cannot therewith be comprehended which light is the revealer of darknesse and manifests the deeds thereof and the first appearance of this in the Creature shews the darknesse and captivity that is in the darknesse till which the Creature never comes to see the wretched condition that man is in who is without God the life nor till then will the Creature be willing to stand still to see Gods salvation but is full with vain hopes conceits and Imaginations and the vaile is over the heart and what God hath there written is not seen and so being whole needs not the physitian And with this blind heart the creature reads the Scriptures and steals the promises that the Children of light spoke of who had the life whereby the seed was raised out of the grave to which the promise is but neither knowes law nor Gospel neither came so far as Moses yet boasting of Christ But when the light is minded the Creature comes to see death raigning and self alive without the law with that light which was given to keep out of the pollution and defilements and so to keep the life clear and unspotted With that light that is seen and judged which hath passed over the life and defiled it and that which hath gendered to bondage is seen and the hardnesse of heart comes to be felt and the cause seen even the great transgression of the pure law so comes the fear of the God to take hold of the man that hath lived out of the life of God and taketh pleasure in unrighteousnesse and the Creature then finds trouble within even where the strong man did keep the house in peace and abiding in the light the cause and end of it is seen and d welling in the fear Wisdom is received from above to depart from the iniquity and in departing from the iniquity there is a coming nearer to God so the light growes and springs as there is a comming nearer of the just paths of life And as the light ariseth the Creation is seene and how the enmity hath spread over and how the lust hath defiled it and how that which was planted as a vineyard is become as a wildernesse for barrenness growne over with thornes and bryars sturdy Oaks and tall Cedars for want of the Vinedresser and where the Lilly should grow it s growne over with Weeds Thistles and Nettles so that God walks not there because of the great abomination and that is the cause of all your woe even his absence And when you see this the lamentation begins in the house of laughter even after him from whom you have fallen and as you follow the light and come nearer to the Lord from whence it comes you will see that it is onely your own wills and wayes that hath separated you from the holy one And with the light you will come to see how often you have beene moved by the spirit of light from your evill wayes and that the cause why you have beene thus long in the Fall hath beene in selfe-will and worldly pleasures whereby the life hath suffered never till then comes any to see him whom you have peirced nor to lament over him nor to see what it is that oppresseth the just

the cause thou knows not God the Father nor the Son for to this he is revealed though thou talke of redemption yet thou knows not God nor his power nor life nor persence with thee to guide thee out of the evill and to give the victory over the Prince of this world and his dominion but art captivated at his will to do his works and so under the condemnation that he is in and the talke of redemption doth not deliver thee from his temptations but into it thou falls and commits the sin that is of his moving and so art of the Devill but that which is of God lies under in death and captivity and bonds of iniquity and so thou canst not have power nor the promise nor salvation which in the seed is placed which is not of thee nor with thee while thou art in these delights but against thee and thou sinning against it and so art not of the promised seed but an enemy to it and by thy lusts and pleasures and self-will art in Pharoahs state and nature keeping the seed of God in the house of bondage and dost not pittie nor regard the cryes thereof which cryes against thy pride and excesse envie and wrath and all thy wickednesse by which thou oppressest the seed of God in thee in that state where death raignes for which the wrath of God comes upon the world of iniquity who are enemies to that seed which is of the Covenant and are not joyned to it but to the contrary in the contrary nature to which all who are joyned in the light come to pertake of Gods love and life therein by Jesus Christ who takes upon him that seed after the flesh not the seed of the evill one nor the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham to whom the promise is And all who know this quickned and raised by the Spirit of Jesus know the plant of Gods renowne of Gods own planting in which the fruit is found and such knows where to waite for a supply of all wants and counsell in all straits where is the law received that is spirituall and the righteousnesse of saith revealed from faith to faith from which Gods righteousnesse is manifest in the world not of selfe nor self-works nor of that seed but of the heritage of faith a free gift to the seed And in this seed as it is redeemed hath the Saints fellowship with the Father and the Son in the light and all the gifts and grace whereby that creature becomes free from the law of sin that they be married to Christ in him to serve the living God set free from the service of sin and Satan And this is their freedom even their righteousness which is everlasting as the seed is redeemed out of the pit For where this seed is raised up there the creature receives from God of his fulness but where the seed is in the grave the curse is betwixt upon him where the sin is and the trespasses by which it is slain But where this is raised the creature is blessed of God for the seeds sake throughout all the Nations of the Earth which layes this seed for in this is God worshipped but where this is dead the sacrifice is abomination for they that are in the grave cannot Praise God it s the living that he accepts and not the dead And this I say to all you who find such a thing as is holy thus moving in you against your lusts and worldly pleasures Take heed and do not deceive your selves with a talk of redemption while this is in prison and not brought above all your lusts But in the light of Christ waite which lets you see this that you may see his power in spirit to raise this to raign above all in you that is contrary so shall you raign with it over all the world and its wicked wayes but if you have found this breathing towards God and you have no regard thereto take heed lest he that gave this for thy salvation take it away from thee in wrath and leave thee to thy lusts without reproof For his Spirit will not alwayes strive with you And then it had been good you had not been born And this hath befallen many after many reproofes and motions to good Who now are left to fill up their measure with greedinesse Who now glory in their shame and boast of their filthynesse and this day is coming upon many more who now little minde the measure of God moving in them but live in the lust sinning against their conscience out of the selfe ends And yet please themselves with a talke of redemption As the greatest profession now set up by many is to make the redemption of Christ a cover for all licentiousnesse and fleshly liberty and say they are to that end redeemed which redemption the Son of God needed not to come from Heaven to purchase for them man being thither fallen by nature subject thereto but all who know the redemption of Christ by his pretious blood are redeemed from the vaine Conversation received by tradition into the holy conversation 1 Pet. 1. 5 18. of him that hath called them to be holy as he is holy and not vain as the World is vain And this is the true redemption to all that know it whereby this seed hath received redemption for us who were transgressors even to purge the conscience from dead works to serve Heh 9. 12 15. the Living God And for this end he gave himself for us to redeeme Tit. 2. 14. us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of Rev 5 9. of good works who hath redeemed us to God by his blood out of Rev. 14. 4. kindreds tongues and fashions from amongst men to follow the the lamb and not the lust And all whose redemption leads not out of this world will fail you when you look for another and this all that are redeemed know but who live in the lust are blinded with the god thereof as the light in every conscience shall testifie that he that lives to the flesh is not redeemed So with the light of Christ which lets you see your transgressions search your hearts that you may see if the just principle that moves to righteousnesse be not oppressed and burthened and over-powred by the seed of the evill doer and that nature which loves carnal delights and so you be led captive to do the works of Satan then what redemption have you further then a talk like a man that hath a conceit of eating but still hungry so you conceit freedom but still serve sin and while servants of sin you are free from righteousnesse as he that is a servant of righteousnesse is free from sin for it is an easie thing to conceit righteousnesse and redemption but he that doth righteousnesse is righteous even as he is righteous but this is not seene while the seed of God is