Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	alive_a	dead_a	life_n	5,787	5	5.0987	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28614	Judas his thirty pieces not received but sent back to him for his own bag who hath betrayed the Lord of Glory ... : being something by way of answer to a letter that was sent to John Reynes ... from Robert Rich ... which was for the distribution of a certain sum of money to seaven churches ... wherein it is mainfested ... Quakers cannot partake of his gift ...	Bolton, John, 1599-1679.	1660 (1660)	Wing B3506; ESTC R26455	13,488	15

thou wouldst give Thirty pounds for raising up of the Love of God in the heart and Judas received Thirty Pieces of silver for betraying Christ the Love of God so the Traders in Money for either buying or selling the Love of God are denied for they are both from one Root but we have learn'd to abide in the Living Vine that we may bring forth fruit unto our Heavenly Father who hath begotten us unto himself by the Gospel which is a sure stay to the mind whereby we are kept in perfect Peace we shall not meddle much with thy high words with which thou beatest the air but surely there is a belief that there was never yet such a president in the World before it is very observable to us the state of thy mind in this particular to advance so great a sum of Money and weighing the thing in the Ballance of Truth it is only to draw us back where thou art gone and joyn us again to the World but we have entered into our rest Thou wouldst have the Persons of those thou hast invited bid welcom and also to remember the spirits of them that were friends to the Bridegroom and so thy Feast is for the dead and living but these so compacted together thou callest the Church of the First-born and indeed they are the Church of the first-born of thy imaginations for there is no pattern of it before and thy Brain is the first that ever pointed out to or laid a foundation for such a Church or such a Congregation unless the Ranters and therefore those who are of the Church of the First-born truly so I mean those that are translated from death to Life from the power of Satan to the Power or the Living God and by the Spirit and power of Jesus Christ are born again whereby they come out of the old Birth or rather that Death which is in opposition to the pure Life of the Son of God and these now come to know the quickning Power of the Son of God in their Souls whereby they are made alive unto God and although they were in time past dead as well as others yet now behold by the Grace of God they live for evermore there abide in Christ the living Vine and are built on the sure foundation ye they are come to the Rock of Ages the tried Stone which the Master-builders of our Age hath refused but to us who believe in the true Light he is for ever precious and therefore the Lord for and in behalf of his Everlasting Truth calls for acquitting of our selves as men of God who love the Gospel of Peace and Salvation who have received mercy and wisdom from God in it whereby we can encounter with the Adversary of Gods Truth and Power although he get unto himself proud swelling words of vanity to make himself to be admired yet in the Name of God we deny him for we are not ashamed of the Truth which we received in the beginning for we come to know it is the Power of God to Salvation to as many as believe and continue in the pure unchangable Way Christ the Light and Life who is the same yesterday this day and for ever there is a presure and pure desire that is in the Soul that all the Flock that are come to partake of the unalterable and pure Wisdom and Life of Christ would for ever abide and continue therein the testimony of the Everlasting God is risen in the Soul there is no assured preservation as to God out of this Ark Therefore all that have been acquainted with the pure measure of the Gift and Grace of God keep and abide therein and then if the Storms come and the Floods arise thou art in that in which the safety is even in him which is the Beginning and the Ending he began the Work of God in our Soul he hath he doth blessed be his Name for ever carry it on in his own strength and by his own Arm are we delivered and preserved and we have learnt of the Spirit of Truth to trust in him and we have set to our Seal and we know him to be the chiefest of ten thousand and he hath made the upright the Virgins whose Lambs are trimed and have oyl in them who have waited for the Bridegroom of the Soul his Banner over them is pure Love every one to know a rest in that which hath no shadow in it how comfortable is it to that man or woman that is come to be stayed in their minds purely on the Living God for we have seen an end of all perfection under the Son but surely the revelation of Christ to the Soul is exceeding glorious in the manifestation of himself in his dwelling and abiding with them that love his Appearance it is a dry place to that Soul whatever the words are that is not in the feeling sence of the pure Life and mark unchangeable Power of the Lord God which keeps the heart entire and upright to God they are compassed about with Salvation that can rest alone in that which is everlastingly one and the same and all that are tost about with every wind every spirit although in the depth of confusion there is a Lamentation for them in the Soul of the upright what will become of them that after a long profession of Gods Truth yet not come to anchor and fix in that which is within the Vail Oh that all were come to be rooted and grounded whereby they might be no more removed from the unchangeable Power of the Living God But Robert thou hast given order that the persons of those that are invited may be bid welcom but rather the spirits of the Friends to the Bridegroom as thou call'st them be remembred But in case the Persons of those that are invited to the Feast which thou hast given Thirty pounds to provide a Dinner or a Supper do not appear how wouldst thou have their spirits remembred Must it be as the Papists remember those that are deceased of their Religion to say one or more Masses that they may be delivered out of Purgatory Or what otherwise is thy Festival mind to have the Spirits of them that are fallen asleep remembred Thou hast given a large some of money for a Dinner or a Supper to Feast together tell us in plain terms Dost thou mean to remember their spirits by drinking to them and so remembring them in a Cup of good Liquor as those Fellowships call it For thou hast given order that the persons but rather the spirits of those especial ones be remembred we must confess it is such an especial work and service and remembrance that we never yet heard of before therefore we had need to have an Interpreter one of a thousand Or wouldst thou like the Church of Rome first canonize and make them Saints and so remember them by putting up request and supplication to them If this or either of these and if not we are certainly distinct from thy Festival mind and spirit but undoubtedly it is a word of truth to thee thou art gone out from the pure Living Truth and Spirit of Christ and what dost thou think to be made perfect by the Flesh and in Feasting Thou appearest to have gotten into a large place but there is an answer riseth It is ease in the earthly sensual mind and will but they only shall be kept in perfect peace whose minds are stayed on God if any should not yet understand wherein our preservation is and wherein our strength lies we stand clear before the Lord it is not in works of righteousness which we have or can do or according to excellency of speech or words which we may have of our own or learn of others but according to and by his Grace are we saved and our comfort and consolation for ever remains as we are kept by the Power of God to continue in the Grace of God which is our Salvation and our minds blessed be the Lord for ever are stayed on him Immortality and Life is brought to light by the Gospel which is the Power of God and the saving health that is revealed by the pure Power of the Lord is come and blessed for ever be the Name of God we continue and abide therein we testifie in the Name of the Lord let the dangers trials or temptations be never so great we have nothing else to trust to or in but the alone Arm and Power of the Lord God which is our Salvation and we cannot be drawn aside from the hope thereof and so all people who ever they are that will partake of Salvation from God they must walk in the pure Light of the Lord in which the pure fellowship is known with the pure God and one with another and all that believe in the Light and are made children thereof and abide therein they have fellowship with us and we with them in that which never alters nor changeth but abideth the same for ever and upon this Rock Christ the true Light are we built and we know the Gates of Hell shall never prevail against them that are built thereon and here is our Rest for ever THE END