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
B08395	The weapons of the people called Quakers turn'd backward, by the shield of truth ; the fountain whereof is the rock and sure defence of that despised contemptible instrument / Elizabeth Atkinson.	Atkinson, Elizabeth.	1669 (1669)	Wing A4129B; ESTC R215419	6,536	16

through his crucified body though they may rejoyce before their Idol as the children of Israel did when they provoked the true God by attributing their deliverance to a piece of the Creation who would have a thought a people groaning so long for deliverance should when it came have been so blind to proclaim before an Idol Behold thy Gods O Israel that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt But though the Lord suffered their idolatrous provoking spirits to travel and multiply in the Wilderness to make known more of his power yet it was but a very small Remnant that were permitted to enter into the land of Promise wherefore you boasters that think you have more light than your Forefathers Yet know though your iniquity is more mysterious it is discovered to be as Great if not greater idolatry to worship the likeness of any thing in the Heavens above as in the Earth beneath For though God made Man in his own image or likeness yet he was a Creature and subject to change from his created purity as he did though he was created Good as all the rest of the Creation was Wherefore he was capable of Death and it is clear to the Eye of Faith though not to Reason that death came upon all as being the offspring generated from corrupted Adam and Eve our first Parents and the Resurrection from the Dead could be no way procured but by the Lord of Glory who abased himself and came in the form of a Servant though he were Lord of All And not for an Example only but to triumph over death that would have kept all under and then the reprobate had never been raised to Eternal Judgement nor the Elect to Everlasting Happiness But this was the promised Restoration which the Believers hoped for and trusted in being grafted thereinto by the Union of Faith But the Pharisees trample this precious Pearl under feet because their carnal spirits cannot understand the worth of it neither can you that are kicking and smiting against further light dispenced because it comes not out from amongst you but you shall find if you go on that you will surely fall though four hundred to one say to the contrary Wherefore it is not your collecting out of Scripture what light and knowledge the Saints injoyed by believing in Jesus that will do you any good seeing you have not believed in him even the man Christ Jesus that you also might have had the revelation and knowledge inspired into you of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ For these Saints that were thus enlightned gave all Honour and Glory to him that conquer'd Death the Alpha and Omega the first and the last who was dead and is alive and lives for evermore Neither would the Angel that had power to shew this Revelation endure to be worshipped for he said I am also a fellow servant and I know were you sensible how Christ lives in the hearts of Believers by Faith you would not thus blindly accuse me For I never denyed any light nor the Office of it appointed by God the Fountain and Original of all Lights who dispenceth it according to his own pleasure that he might have all the glory And though you hate me yet I must tell you the truth it is but your own spirits that you worship being lifted up by the inlightning of the law within you shewing you good and evil hence I know it is the spirit of the Serpent in you as it was in the Pharisees that directed them to reject the justification of Faith in the Blood of Christ and stick to the justification of the law by their own works Though I do certainly know that the Regenerated by Faith in Jesus do more singly perform the honest and true intents of the Law then the Pharisees with all their outward seeming holiness For the Believers are constrained by love which is the law of faith to act justly though they know their eternal Happiness and Recovery ariseth not from any thing performed by them but from Christ the Author of their faith by taking upon him unspotted flesh and when that deceived Remnant amongst you shall be inlightned with the knowledge of the whole truth Then they will see that you are not justified in your Principles by what I formerly wrote to you though you take it to your selves For you have not that light of faith in you to believe or understand how Christ is the Sacrifice once for all in his own person Neither are you in the state of Man in the first Creation though you have had some sense of convincements by the Law which is general to all men because all are included under sin being generated from fallen Parents who by defilement lost their first state by aspiring to be wise as Gods which pride when it was received caused them to feel the Effects of threatned wrath which was the entrance of Death and Mortality upon them and their posterity which was as surely fulfilled as all the words of the Lord are in their appointed time for the account of the Lord who is Eternity is not like unto mens who are blinded by the fall and the promise of resurrection to life was is and shall be as surely fulfilled to Believers as the resurrection to condemnation to unbelievers and in that day the Reprobate though he believe it not will be surprized with the second ever dying Death not having Faith or Belief in Christ the first Resurrection for though these substantial things are figured out to us in several dispensations yet it is only the Elect that have the faith and patience to wait for the accomplishment of them But the Reprobate continually setteth the Figure in the place of the Substance The Pharisees had not accused the Lord of Life for a Blasphemer Had they not trusted in the righteousness of the Law which was the greatest dispensation of light discovered by them in their dayes yet they knew not the Fountain when he manifested himself and openly declared himself so for had they known they would not have Crucified the Lord of Glory and taken his blood upon themselves I hope there is some that are yet amongst you who will see the truth of what I say and that I have not denyed Christ the Inlightner of the Saints but have only denyed your Imaginations built upon the enlightning of the law or light in you which is become darkness though you have given it the name of Lord and Saviour and are performing some of the Punctilioes of the letter which you do not rightly understand It is the giving high and honourable titles to your deceived imaginations that hath deceived the simple being lifted up in pride under a feigned shew of humility in outward habit But I am confident in what I affirm that it is your own spirit which you worship being lifted up by the inlightning of the law which is good and profitable to them that use it in its