Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	let_v	sin_n	4,419	5	4.7742	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52722	To the life of God in all	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing N321; ESTC R31710	8,394	10

TO THE Life of GOD IN ALL. THE love of that pretious Life of Christ Jesus in me constraines me as the light thereof arises to declare to all people and to generations to come how that innocent Just and Holy Life came to suffer in me and be betrayed and I to lose the light thereof so far as to be taken captive again under the power of darknesse sin and death from which that life had once set me free and born me in its self for some years above all the craft subtilty and power of Satan that old deceiver and tempter of man-kind who ceases not to take every occasion that pure life to devour so to take the creature captive again who with that pretious life hath once been ransomed as once I had been by the living vertue thereof For our of kindreds and estate and all visible relations had he once called me and set me free and had broken all my bonds as to all earthly things wch was strong many and redeemed me from all my sins past and with his pretious blood had he sprinkled my conscience before God as though I had never sinned in his fight annointing me with the oyl of deliverance and peace towards God and man and sent me forth in the same bowels to call lost and strayed souls to the same everlasting light therein to wait for the appearance of the same purifying life and power in themselves there with to be gathered to the pure God to whom the children of darkness and wicked workers cannot come till with the word of life they be cleansed and made new after himself in whom is no iniquity And in this his work by him I was preserved against all enmity born in all affliction and feed above all wants within and without though sent into a strange countrey without money bag or scrip and among a strange people that knew not God in the North parts of this English Nation and I may truly say as a Sheep among Wolves I was where ever I came yet had none power to touch me further then what should make for his glory in whom I lived and the advantage of that work I was about which he daily turned to my exceeding joy and great reward and his living presence did ever furnish me with renewed strength against all contrary spirits and the power thereof and in him I had judgement and power over them where ever they withstood his pure work And in this same life and dominion did he bring me up into this great City London into which I entered with the greatest fear that ever into any place I came in spirit foreseeing somewhat to befal me therein but not knowing what it might be yet had I the same presence and power as before into what place or services soever I was led of the Spirit in that life I never returned without victory in Christ Jesus the Lord thereof But not minding in all things to stand single and low to the motions of that endless life by it to be led in all things within and without but giving way to the reasoning part as to some things which in themselves had no seeming evil by little and little drew out my mind after trifles vanities and persons which took the affectionate part by which my mind was drawn out from the constant watch and pure fear into which I was once begotten and spiritual adultery was commited against that pretious pure life wch had purchased me unto himself alone and is grieved with the least departure from him in Body Spirit or mind even that eternal pure and zealous Spirit from above had drawn me near into himself and that Pure Word was become my life who said He that doth but look upon a woman to lust commits Adultery and in whose sight the least coveting or letting any visible Object into the affections is Idolatry into that life I was comprehended and the Apple of that pure Eye was opened in me which admits not of an evil thought but is wounded and bruised with the least appearance of evil even this birth was born which reigns through righteousnes and suffers till all righteousness be fulfilled in every particular and this is the Son of God for ever and into this Life and Kingdom I was translated and I was in him that is true in whom there is no sin and He alone Lived and Ruled in this his Temple which to himself he had purchased with his pretious blood and his delight was in me and his presence was Glorious and not the least evil could appear but I could feel him in Spirit lifting up his witnesse against it But when I reasoned against his tender reproof and consulted with another and so let the Creatures into my affections then his Temple was defiled through lust and his pure Spirit was grieved and he ceased to reprove and he gave me up and his light he withdrew and his Judgement took away and so the body of death and sin revived again and I possessed a fresh the iniquities of my youth and that which had of old been buried arose and stood against me and so the Temple was filled with darknesse and the power of death and my heart with sorrow and Satan daily at my right hand to tempt me further to provoke the Lord and to take away my life Thus having in a great measure lost my own guide and darkness being come upon me I sought a place where I might have been alone to weep and cry before the Lord that his face I might find and my condition recover but then my adversary who had long waited his oportunity had got it and bestirred himself every way so that I could not be hid and divers messages came to me in that case some true some false as I have seen since so I knowing some to be true to wit how I had lost my condition with this I let in the false message also and so letting go that little of the True Light wch I had yet remaining in my self I gave up my self wholly to be led by others whose work was then wholly to divide me from the Children of Light which was done though much was done by divers of them to have prevented it and in bowels of tender love many laboured to have stayed me with them and after I was led out from them the Lord God of my life sent divers of his servants with his word after me for my return all which was rejected yea the provocations of that time of temptation was exceeding great against the pure love of God yet he left me not For after I had given my self under that power and darkness was above my adversary so prevailed that all things was turned and perverted against my right seeing hearing or understanding onely a secret hope and faith I had in my God which I had served that he would bring me through it and to the end of it and that I should again see the