Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	believe_v	life_n	word_n	5,871	5	4.5879	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89855	Spirituall wickednesse, in heavenly places, proclayming freedome to the forme, but persecuting the power: or an answer to a booke intituled, Freedom of religious worship: or, the jubilee of ordinances set forth without a name.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing N319; Thomason E808_16; ESTC R207529	10,645	12

be changed 1 Cor. 15. and here the Scripture witnesses that thou belyes the Apostle as thou dost us And thou scoffes at immediate commands which we own and all the saints and holy men of God shall witnes with us against thee which of them had their commands from any other but from God whose voyce is immediate and they did not walk by tradition or from the commands that had bin given to others sought out of the letter as thou dost but had their particular immediate commands which they obeyed And thou scoffes at a Christ within a Word within a Baptisme within a Sabbath within and here thou shewest thy selfe to be a reprobate without carnall in all these things not to have the saints Christ who was in them the hope of glory but thy Christ is without thee unborn or formed in thee and thou looks not for him till the next generation the saints word was within them in the heart and in the mouth and this is the word of faith which the Apostles Preached but thy word is without thee in a book which is dead The saints Baptisme was by one spirit into one body not the washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience but thine is without in carnall water the saints were entered into the spirituall sabbath Christ Iesus but thine is without in observing of days in the type and so denies Christ come in the flesh and this is Anti-christ and here thou art without in carnall rudiments but the saints within in spirituall worship and all who are spirituall judges thee who art carnall but thou canst not judge the spirituall man but art without in the world among the heathen in thy imaginations who has not that spirit to guide thee which was in the Apostles and thou art the beast which hast another spirit that was not in the Apostles but is contrary to it and therefore thou makes war with the saints and the false Prophet that denies the immediate voyce of God and say thus saith the Lord when the Lord never spoke to thee and the beast and false prophet must into the lake there is thy portion Thou scoffes at perfection mortification and freedom from sin in this life which was the end of Christs comming and that which the saints pressed after and witnessed and which God commands and here thou shews thy selfe to be an enemy to Gods commands Christs comming and the saints practice and to be an upholder of the Devils Kingdom who cannot endure to heare of sin going down and mortification while men live but concludes all must live in sin and serve the Devill while they live and deny the Devil and serve God when they are dead for they cānot serve both at once and this is thy judgment who hast not that spirit that was in the Apostles Thou sayst we lay claime to five great points of Popery poverty infallibility unity revelations selfe-righteousnesse or perfection I answer selfe-righteousnesse we deny and witnes the righteousnesse of Christ but thou who calls poverty infallibility unity revelation and perfection points of Popery shews what religion thou art of who denies poverty when the saints were many of them poormen and had no certain dwelling places Lazarus a poor man but thou art Dives reade thy figure and counts it Popery to be poor the saints were guided by an infallible spirit but thou art led by the spirit of error and yet out of a busie mind would be a Judge over the infallible spirit and calls is Popery The saints lived in unity were all of one heart and one mind and one soule and this thou calls Popery but thou art scoffing Ishmael thy hand against every man villifying all but thy selfe and art an enemy to the spirit of unity and denies thy religion to stand in unity And the saints had their revelations by which they knew God and his will And Christ saith No man knowes the Father but he to whom the Sonne reveals him and here thou art witnessed that thou knows not God who denies revelation and calls it Popery and hast thy knowledge by heare-say from others The saints winessed perfection and pressed after it and God witnesseth it and Christ commanded it which thou calls Popery and thou might as well say Christ taught Popery Thou says we care for beleeving no more then that which is immediately given in and revealed to us and this thou calls Popish Ignorance I answer we witnesse no other Faith but what is the gift of God and this is that Faith the saints witnesse in Scriptures and by this Faith we have received of God doe we deny thee and thy faith which thou hast fetcht in which thou never received of God which is the Worlds faith and by this faith thou never received from God art thou given up to beleeve lyes and tell lyes for every good and perfect gift commeth from above but thy faith which is from below is earthly no better then the faith of Infidels which is not received from God and here let all take heed how they beleeve thee whose faith is not given to thee of God and thy religion is discovered who beleeves that which thou never received from God and that beleife which is not received of God is of the Devill And thou tells of trying the spirits and things that differ according to that great Canon of the Apostles But where doth the Scripture tell of the Apostles Canon but such Anti-Christs words are most suteable to that Kingdome of Anti-Christ wherein thou art And thou sayst try the spirits that is hold them up in the Sun beames of Scripture the onely touchstone of Doctrine but these are thy own words which thou adds by another spirit then that which was in the Apostles by which thou would exclude that spirit but thou who hast not that spirit must cry up such as thou hast the letter for the spirit which letter thou hast nothing to doe withall who hast not that spirit that gave it forth and therefore prefers the letter before the spirit and calls it the originall of all truth but knows not that truth which was before the the letter was written but art a lyar and calls the letter the Written Word not knowing that Word from which the letter was Written which word is spirituall and not carnall the originall of all things and it is the spirit that searcheth and tryeth all things and not the letter and thou who hast not that spirit that was in the Apostles art telling how people come to fall into great evills and of preservatives against evills but cannot see thy selfe in the great evill and in the fall who art not come to the resurrection nor the habitation of righteousnesse who hast not the spirit of God vvhich is infallible nor hast received that which thou believest from God and thou who art not come to the first resurrection death speaks in thee And how canst thou teach others the way of life Wherefore silence thou that art in the grave with thy earnall Christ carnall Word carnall Faith which has not received it of God carnall Baptisme carnall Ordinances and carnall spirit which are all without thee cease thy pratling thou bysie body til thou come to witnes him who is invisible before all these carnall things were and in vvhom they are all swallowed up finisht and ended for thou vvho cannot vvitnes Christ revealed in thee cannot Preach him and thou vvho cannot vvitnes Christ come in the flesh at present art Anti-christ and vvould be a Master or Teacher of others but knows not vvhat thou speaks nor vvhereof thou affirmes And for the markes that leads into the great evill thou speaks of they are in thy selfe and blinde guide thou cannot see them and thou vvould be teaching vvayes to keep others out of evill vvhen as thou art in the evill and in the fall and knows not the vvay out nor the resurrection Wherefore thou hypocrite look to the beame in thine own eye first for thou knows not what spirit thou art of but hast the spirit of envy at the innocent arising from a blind zeale from vvhich thou speaks evill of that thou knows not and thou art set on fire of Hell and art in the gall of bitternesse and bonds of iniquity Wherefore repent and turne in thy minde to that vvhich vvould leade thee to doe as thou vvould be done by and if thou minde it it vvill still thy busie minde and bring thee into judgement for all thy hard speeches thou hast blasphemously spoken against the spirit of God and his people least he take thee away in his vvrath and judge thee according to the secret envy vvhich is in thy Heart against his despised ones and then had thou better never a been borne A Servant of the truth James Nayler This is no rayling but plaine dealing and in love to thy soule as one day thou shalt be forced to confesse against thy selfe FINIS