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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	law_n	sin_n	5,839	5	5.9889	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27306	The work of sin (in the flesh) condemned and the power of the enemy (in and over the creature mankind) by spiritual weapons resisted, and warred against ... / R.B.	R. B.	1663 (1663)	Wing B175; ESTC R11933	18,524	26

be of the flesh of the flesh it reapes corruption for the works of each body and spirit is ripe for tryal and to receive Judgement is ready which must be born by and rest end on the transgressor though it hath begun or may begin on the creature of God And though the works of many doth suffer loss in this particular yet so as their persons shall be saved alive in this day of the Lord Iesus but where Judgement goes against the body the tree or man if the creature be not dead to it and it to him how hard is it to be born And the more just judgement is the more painful is it to be born by a life in the creature So this is the sume of what hath been sayed what fruit was brought forth to God before his truth was professed was in a green tree and then was the wild olive standing and the wild vine and grapes was brought forth and as their Judgement was without and in the first man they have found hard measure and were beaten with a few stripes that which was under the Law and had its measure from men without mercy in a time of profession there Judgement is only with the Lord and their fruit called for c. Though such hath been and are beaten with a few stripes and hath the like measure meated from God as they have measured to him in his requirings of their duty to his creature and do taste of the bitter things of his house as he hath tasted of their bitter fruit as the fruitless and barren tree that hath worren out the patience and forbearance of God and hath drawn forth the strength of the root into a bare and meer show and profession flourishing with leaves only but hath no fruit of that which it makes a shew of and professeth in the world This is it that hath a curse at its root which the Axe of God is layed to whereas under the law when the fruit was only sower and unpleasant bitter to the taste of God and unsavoury in the nostriles of the holy one when as in a sensure it was offered to him as insence the axe was onely layed to the branches to the bodyes spreading forth but now cut it down saith the Lord why cumbers it the ground Oh that this could be read for great is the work of God in revealing the mistery hereof in this day For it is this tree God is displeased with in the biterness of his soul that hath not the nature and virtue and sap of the life it makes shew of and professeth to and in the worlds eye and sight whereby the name of God is blasphemed and spoken evil of by and through them that have been branching forth themselves into several Judgements and perswasions of opinion and the strength of all they labour and indeavour after is but to make a fair shew in the flesh and to insult over such they have power over in this particular and so is fit for nought but the fire for the sower grapes though they were unpleasant to Gods taste su●h that our fathers or father eat of this tree and the childrens teeth hath thereby been set an edge whereby the ●nger of what was raised and kindled hath discovered Gods countenance not to be his wounted favour way and course of doing good whereby the sons of men have seen themselves threatned with the displeasure of God that which was thus unpleasant to his relish yet shall this proverb no more be used in our Land the fathers have eaten sower grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge but as what was done in a green tree hath been favourably dealt with and the branches thereof only cropt and taken away as a time of ignorance God winked at much of these things and chastised them with rods only but now with Scorpions then with a few stripes but now with many and concerning this saith my soul oh that the states hereof could be distinguished of in the world Concerning the words of Christ fear not him that can kill the body but fear ye him that is able to destroy both body and soul and cast it into hell fire Intorduct Because the Judgement of God is eternal and the fire is everlasting into whose burning flames the wicked is and are to be cast it hath become a common proverb in the world that out of hell is no redemption though there may be and are many already in it that thus are useing and exclaiming this message unto others and that both such and all others may have a care for the future what they say and pronounce in such cases I proceed to declare First What hell is And who those are that already are in it Hell is utter darkness and its fire is the unquenchable fury of the wrath of Gods judgement in the torment of the wicked but though it be so to a nature and state the creature mankind was once fallen into and under yet it is not absolutely so to the creature of God in any state he hath been betrayed into and hath so fallen in and under for there is a great deal of difference between the man of sin and worker of inequity the enemy of mankind under whose power the creature of God hath fallen and the creature it self thus betrayed by the subtle alurements and temptation of the serpent and Satan that old deceiver of mankind Yea and the creature of God shall be redeemed and restored in all the world into that state of liberty and under that subjection God first placed and stated him in and though God created all things for himself and the wicked for the day of destruction yet did not God create them wicked but that state they were lead into under the power of the destroyer that thereby hath deceived the creature of that peace and comfort in the world that stands in time and place that otherwayes was therein peculiar to him and that he might have injoyed whose such day of destruction he the destroyer called to himself though the day God created even this day that manifesteth the destroyer and power of destruction that God in eternity and his equal decreeings that measures to every one and thing a just recompence of reward had ordained and measureth back to him and on his own head what he thus awakened to the creature that is now returned to and on himself Therefore Such are already in hell Who are not or hath not been brought down into a sence and filling of the creatures misery under the power of the destroyer and devourer for thither was Christ Jesus the lambe of God that taketh away the sin of the world that was made sin for us though he knew no sin in himself but took on him the infirmities of nature sin was the cause of and suffered the curse of the Law due to sin and that was added because of sin and transgression against God brought and he indured the

shameful cursed death of the Cross to teach and lead the creature of God what he was to wait in to feel the power of to the overcoming the curse for it was written in the Law cursed was every one that hanged on a tree and this curse came on the transgressor first and was added because of transgression and a sence and feeling of this condition are all to come into for the creatures sake ere the transgression can be removed and he that is really the transgressor brought to judgement and condigne punishment for though the woman the creature of God was first found in transgression that was created for the man and the man in this state is by the woman yet the man of sin that man by whom sin came was the cause of and in the ground of her betraying who was created to be the mans glory in this fallen state as he was created to be the glory or Image of God And it is he that was in the cause of and rejoyceth in the creatures fall and destruction that was not nor is not Gods creature that God will destroy by his coming in the brightness of his appearance and by the breath of his mouth and nostriles And Thus are all to consider the man is but one that hath soul and body and the way of God is but one and the fire of Gods eternal Judgement that is fury and wrath to the wicked is but one and this fire is the curse pain of death the torment thereof is that which the enemy kindled and awakened under the sufferance of God wherein God is called and termed a consuming fire Yea and this fire is to be indured by all that he may be known that can indure everlasting burnings and can dwell with and in consuming fire where God is come to sit in his people as a refiner But though the creature was once found in transgression the first man Adam was And though the curse of the Law of men rested and resteth on the just and innocent yet the judgement of God hath begun at the house of God where the Judgement of men and curse of their Law hath rested And into this sence and feeling even of sufferance with the just and to the bearing the waite and burthen of and on the creature and creation of God are all to come for there is Christ Jesus the just this suffering seed and spirit of God and whoever feeleth or hath a sence of him hath that sence first raised of him in a suffering condition and comes to suffer with him as did David that came the right way to God and felt him in the seed and spirit of life in a suffering condition and for that cause was his soul in hell or grave under the power of the enemies work first awakened temptation to that which being overcome by as Gods witness was and is awakened in the soul the torment of fear and terror of and in death made him cry out under my sins are a burden to heavy for me to bear and whether shall I sly from thy presence If I go into hell thou art there and in the bottom of the Sea also for mighty waves had went over his soul and he saw the grave of the wicked and the place of the ungodly where they dwell that are set in slipery places but he was assured that God would not leave his soul there in hell or the grave nor suffer his holy one to see corruption for the Lord sayed unto my Lord sayed he sit thou at my right hand untill I make thy foes my footstool so The dwelling and keeping in a sence and feeling of that state and condition the creature or creation of God is in all the world is to be in the way and hope of the redemption of God and to have the faith of God in his son concerning the work of restoration for it is the misery and sad state of the world that they are unsenceable of their misery and the sadness of that state they are in and under and therefore is it the house of darkness and utter darkness will be their portion if they come not this way even to that which awakeneth the sence of sin and of the creatures misery therein and under for in that state of darkness and blindness of mind eternity and endless seperation steals on the creature and he slips into the pit and ditch out of which is no recovery And this is to have soul and body cast into hell fire when in the body of nature a fire is kindled and wrath come forth in referance to the power of the enemy and destruction the creature in that state hath favoured and wherein the humors of the mind hath lodged that leads into and creates humors of body favourable to deaths power and dominion● yet I would not have it concluded that the just seed of God and spirit of life in the creature and creation or the creature it self is alwayes to continue in and under susferance in the world though wh●le the world is in this state and condition things now standing in and under needs must the sufferance thereof continue And the creature is not to go out of the sence and feeling of the state and condition the Justice is in in the general into hardness of Judgement against the creature of God in the world because of any experience of deliverance in the particular out of such state the generality of people layes in and under and so in that hard mind and state to close up themselves against mercy and pitty and limit God to the will of any creaturely Judgement for the sufferance of and in the body of nature in the state things now stand in and under cannot for ever continue to and in the creature of God but drives it to its eternal home which rules in and over the world and is God in the spirit of the world to the setting the creature of God at liberty that hath been in bondaged under the power hereof The Difference between the creatures Sinning against the Judgement of God in a time of ignorance before God was known and acquainted with and against his mercy and grace after he hath made known and revealed himself in his presence of joy favour and loving kindness Which is A precious warning and visitation of repentance to all the world but especially to thee O England Oh World World and in thee O England this is not so much a threatning thee with what is to come to pass as a warning and visitation of information for the turning your minds to the light of Christ and spirit of God in your hearts that you may see from the King on the throne to the maid that grindes on the mill or bagger on the dunghil that God is no respector of persons but is this day come down into the earth to visit for the sins of all high and low rich and poor and none shall go free and