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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	adam_n	sin_n	wage_n	4,026	5	11.2119	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35833	The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1260; ESTC R27296	24,653	32

hast done and thy reward is wrath and condemnation which will pass upon thee from the presence of the Lamb for thy disobedience and breaking of the righteous Law which must be fulfilled and what way soever thou turnest to get life in outward formes and observations the flaming sword which is the righteous Law that goes out of the mouth of the Lamb it will turn every way and meet thee and cut thee down and cast thee into hell where there is weeping and wailing for want of the presence of God and thou canst doe nothing to pacifie the wrath of God which is gone out against thee Now wouldst thou hide thy self as Adam did when he appeares in thy heart thy fig-leafed garment of prayers tears forms outward observations according unto thy comprehensions of the letter will not cover thy nakedness it served to cover thy nakedness from the sight of men but now when the Lord appears in thy heart thou canst not stand before him now comes Cain in thee to be driven from the face of God to be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth notwithstanding all his sacrifice and Esau in thee reprobated never to have the blessing though he seek it with teares and the bond-woman and her son cast out and the first Adam now slain with the sharp sword that goeth out of the mouth of the Lamb and art made to give up thy soul to God whose it is to doe with thee what he will if he destroy thee for ever he may and if he save thee from eternall death it is his free love now art thou baptized with Christ into his sufferings and death where thou liest sealed down under the eternal judgement of God and there perishest for ever for any power or help thou hast in thy self and this is the administration of Moses where thou lyest condemned for ever under the righteous Law without any help or hope untill the administration of the Prophets that prophesie of a Christ that hath satisfied the righteous Law of God for thee who art lost and condemned under the power of the Law of Moses and now there is a secret hope raised up in thy soul and thou lookest up from under the condemning power of Moses for a Saviour and the Prophets are until John and of all that were born of woman there was not one greater than John for he is a burning and a shining light that lets thee see the filthiness of thy heart and the Law shines in its purity to condemn the earthly man in thee but he strengthens the hope in thee that was raised up by the Prophets to see the beauty and excellency of Iesus Christ which ravishes thy lost condemned soul that thou art willing to sell all for him the Scripture being now fulfilled in thee who witnesses this from the daies of John even until now the Kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force now is every mountain and hill layd low in thee and crooked wayes made strait and the rough way in thee made smooth and thou wait in the wi●…derness and lost condition of thy self for the salvation of God to be manifest to the in Iesus Christ and in the appointed time of the Father the Son of man comes to thy soul as a Thief in the night as the lightning from the East to the West so is his appearance in thee and causes thy dead soul to hear his voice which witnesses to it eternal life freely through his own blood and thy soul heares his voice and by the word of his power is made to live and are sealed up by the holy spirit of promise the Spirit of God bearing witness with thy spirit that thou art his child now comest thou to witness the second Adam to be a quickning spirit and Isaac the promised seed to be heir for ever and that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life and that by grace tho●… ar●… saved through Faith in the Lord Jesus not of works lest any should boast and he that hath hope in him purifies himself as he is pure and the love of Christ constrains thee now who can witnes this work of Regeneration manifest in thee to follow him whither soever he goes no more to obey him for life as thou didst when thou wast without seeking him in forms and observations but now the love and life thou enjoyest in Christ Jesus constrains thee to deny thy self and take up thy Cross daily and follow him Now art thou come into the beginning to live in the Lord guided by the powerfull word of faith the light that shines in thy heart which is the light of the City New Jerusalem to whom thou art come to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth and all that are come to walk in the light of the City New Jerusalem are the true Israel of God that are taught of God to whom the New and everlasting Covenant is made according to the promise of the Lord This is the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah after those daies saith the Lord I will put my Law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people and they shall teach no more every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them I will be mercifull unto their unrighteousness and their sinnes and their iniquities will I remember no more and in this City t●…ere is no need of the Sun neither of the Moon to shine in it which are borrowed lights outward dispensations and teachings of men for the glory of the Lord God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof and the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it and the Kings of the earth bring their glory and honour unto it and the●… shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh abhomination or worketh a lye but they which are written in the Lambs Book of life and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day for there shall be no night there for the Lord giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever HALLELUIAH to the Highest A Word from the Lord to all that are waiting on the Lord in Sion And to those that are weeping and are se●…king the Lord their God asking the way to Sion with their faces thitherwards FEar not ye mourners in Sion the Lord waits on you to be gracious unto you though he give you the bread of adversity now and the water of affliction yet shall not your Teachers be removed into Corners any more but your eyes shall see your Teachers and your

thy doings for power from the Lord to guide thee forth of the evill which the light discovers which would guide thee into the Kingdome of God but thou runnest out into the wisdom of the first Adam to seek the Kingdome of God in outward formes and observations according as thou comprehendest of the Saints practices and thou imitatest their practices in thy wisdome and though thou walk never so strictly in these outward formes thou art alive in the first Adam sewing fig-leaves together to cover thy nakedness a peece of new cloth in an old garment thou art putting new wine into old bottles and art building up a tower to get up to God in thy heathenish and Babylonish wisdom and confusion will come upon thee in the day when the Lord comes to look for fruit thou wilt be found a fruitlesse tree that cumbers the ground Cain with his offering up sacrifice unto God in thy first nature Esau seeking the birth-right with teares who shall never find it and all the fruit that is raised in thee is from Hagar the Bond-woman and thou hast thy end for thy self in all that thou dost which is thy hire which thou expectest in the end life for thy labour and obedience and thou regards not the glory of the Lord and his fear is not before thine eyes therefore every man and woman deal justly with your own hearts under what name or title soever thou be whether thou be a Teacher of others or a Professor of what thou comprehendest to be truth from the Testimony the Saints gave forth from the life and power of Christ that was in them and thou expectest life in thy outward formes and observations and mindest not to be guided by the light which is of Christ in thy own conscience which light guided the Saints that gave forth the Scriptures and while thou disobeyest that light profess what thou wilt thou art in the fall first Adam is yet alive in thee Cain is not yet banished nor Esau reprobated nor the bond-woman and her son cast out which are all figures and types of the first nature which is yet alive in thee and thy will is thy guide and thy heart is in the earth notwithstanding all thy profession and thou art a painted beast made drunk with the wine of the wrath of the Whore which is thy wisdom which comprehends that which thou never didst know manifest in it self and sits deckt a well-favoured harlot above the Crosse of Christ thou wilt be found a Thief and Robber who comes not in by the door Jesus Christ but climbs up some other way and thus far went the Scribes and Pharisees and the young man who had kept the Commandements from his youth but when he should have sold all for Christ he went away sorrowful And thus far went Paul when he persecuted Jesus Christ according to the Law he walked blameless and all thy strict walking to get life in observations according to the Letter is striving again to get the tree of life by thy own power who art fenced out with Cherubims and a flaming sword which turns every way to keep the way of the tree of life And if thou never ●…awest thy self senced out from the presence of God notwithstanding all thy righteousness in observations thou art not come so near God as to see the flaming sword which is placed to meet thee in every way thou turnest to get life in thy own power and to cut thee down and kill thee ●…hat Christ may be thy life thou art alive in the first Adam and art in the death for death reignes over all from Adam to Moses and Moses is until the Prophets and the Prophets till John and John untill Christ and if thou canst not witnesse that thou art come to Moses profess what thou wilt thou hast not set thy face towards God no●… one step in the strait and narrow way to eternal life but art going the broad way to destruction whatever thou be whether a Teacher of others or a Professor of what thou comprehendest to be truth from the Le●…ter of the Scripture under what form name or title soever thou be thou art a dead man and a dead woman and the wrath of God abides on thee though thou see it not Rom. 7. 9. there Paul witnesseth I was alive without the Law once but when the Commandement came sin revived and I dyed Friends every one in particular deal justly with your hearts see what you can witness of your death with Christ by the powerful word of truth which enlightens the conscience and condemns sin in the flesh for every one would ascend with Christ to be partakers of the life and glory with him but he becomes a stumbling stone to be baptized with him into his sufferings and death to ascend with him into hell and this thou must witness before ever thou come to sit with him in heavenly places for it is they and they alone that shall reign with him who suffer with him and they that are dead with him shall live with him it is the dead that hears the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Arise thou that sleepest in the dust of the earth securely in thy earthly and Serpentine wisdom thy mind feeding upon the dust of the earth created objects which will perish arise stand up to Judgement that Christ may give thee life This is required of thee O man to doe justly love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God examine thy heart and deal justly with thy own soul there is a light in thy conscience which light is of Christ minding it will let thee see the mystery of iniquity that lodgeth in thy heart which is deceitful and desperately wicked and this light in thy conscience which discovers unto thee the evil of thy heart is of the etarnal Word of God and was from the beginning according as it is written in the outward testimony of the truth In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word is God and the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by him a●…d without him was not any thing made that was made in him was life and the life was th●… light of men and the light shineth in 〈◊〉 and the darkness comprehends it not Every one arise out of your earthly wisdome and minde the light in thy conscience and wait on the power of the Lord in it and it will bring thee to Judgement before the Throne of the Lamb where the righteous Law will be opened in thy heart that will cry through thy earthly heart for righteousness and judgement and the book will be opened in thee where thou shalt see all written that thou hast done in the body and shall give an account for every idle word and receive thy reward for what thou