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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	life_n	resurrection_n	10,682	5	8.7967	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65908	The doctrine of perfection vindicated by way of answer to some objecting reasons frequently used by them that plead for sin in this life ... with some wholesome exhortation ... shewing plainly how it is agreeable with what is signified in the Scripture and the light within ... : something likeways expressed concerning bread and wine : also some wholsome directions to stir up young people to seek after their Creator in the days of their youth / written by one who breathes to God for the redemption of the seed that lies yet in the house of bondage bound by the cords of iniquity, J.W.	Whitehouse, John, fl. 1662-1663.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1984; ESTC R33637	36,477	48

for ever except you turn at my reproof that I may pour out my self upon you to cleanse you from all pollutions of flesh and spirit and so bring you into a godly life in perfectness and true holiness before you go hence and be no more seen for as Death leaves you so will Judgment find you Isa 38.18 for in the grave there is no cleansing So whilst you have time take this for a warning for you will find no mercy with God after death if you reject me the Light whom my Father hath in his mercy sent into the dark world that all that receive me should be led out of sin and darkness into the Light of Everlasting Life If any ask for a proof of these words let them turn within and search the Book of Conscience and look truly therein and there they shall find it We hope we shall finde mercy hereafter World for God is a merciful God The mercy of God is not as many think it is Answ nor to be found where many hope for it which is to say in the life to come after death of the outward man but it is to be found in this life whilst thou hast a being in this earthly tabernacle or else all thy hope in thy dead mind will be in vain for except thou know a cleansing by the Light which is the mercy of God from sin when you shall come to receive a just recompence of reward for all your deeds done in the body Rev. 20 13. then shall your dead minds be awakened and the mercy which you have dreamed of therein be turned into fear wrath and anger wherein the Lord will reveal himself to take Vengeance upon all that knew him not to live in them and they to live in him whose Life raiseth out of Death and all dead works Revel 20.6 into the Life of Righteousness which is free from sin which is the first Resurrection of which whosoever partakes not the second Death will have power over Therefore more plainly to all understandings this I say is the mercy of the compassion at God to all mankind who have lost their spiritual life through falling into sin by which came death over all insomuch that man became more sensless than the Ox Isa 1.3 which knew his owner or the Ass which knew his Master's crib I say his mercy is to offer him Life freely in the Light of his Son which he had fully lost and of himself could in no wayes gain it again John 1.3 therefore God so loved the world that he sent his Son a Light into it in whom was and is Life whose Life is the Light of men shining in dark hearts to which they in taking heed and obeying it in its movings leadings and workings will thereby be led out of sin which it bears Testimony against to take up a Cross to the carnal mind and lusts of the flesh which in them is all enmity against God on which Cross the evil seed will be crucified and the enmity slain and so comes of twain one new man to be made in whom the Image and Life of God is restored again by the second Adam in whom all are made alive 1 Cor. 15.22 who receives him who is the quickening Spirit from that death which entred them by the first Adam who was an earthly man and so all that receive Christ the Light receive the Mercy of God and come to know the Seed of the Kingdom which is like a little leaven which as it comes to have its way to work and operate in the heart it makes all things new by working out the evil seed and killing the old man with his deeds and so makes a new lump Joh. 3.3 5. this is the work of Restoration in the washing of Regeneration through which the new birth is brought forth of which except a man be born he must not inherit the Kingdom of God So this is the Mercy of God Joh. 15.24 to give every one a measure of the Light of his Son to work this Work in and for them which they of themselves could not work which must be wrought in this life or never But yet I feel there are some in the world who are ready to say thus Oh this perfect life that we could attain it Object Oh how willing could we be to be rid of all sin if it be possible for we feel something in us crying as it were for deliverance which is grieved and burthened with the heavy load of sin and indeed notwithstanding all our Observations wherein we have been seeking life and peace yet are we unsatisfied and which way to be we know not Well my Friends Answ in the remembrance of you is my soul refreshed and what if I say I have been striving all this while that I might make a way to come plainly to your understandings to speak a little in the Bowels of Love that these good desires in you may be strengthened and the eye of your understandings opened to see the good day that is broken forth unto many who sate in darkness and under the shadow of death hoping for life and breathing for power to come up out of the pit where there is no water where their tongues clave to the roof of their mouthes in which their hearts were ready to faint and were almost giving up to conclude that there we must remain notwithstanding something breathed to come forth but being in bondage in the Prison-house the keeper thereof said its impossible and while we hearkened unto him we saw no hope of attaining our desires but turning away from him and standing a little still we heard a Voice that spake unto us comfortably Joh. 13. and with it was a Light that shone out of darkness by the which we saw marvellous things wherein our souls were greatly revived and as we hearkned diligently and gave up to the call of the same it brought us by a way that we thought not of out of the depth of the dungeon of death where we were held in bondage and slavery by the King of the bottomless pit who seemed so strong as if he could never be overcome but he that spake unto us in the Light Matth. 12.29 hath proved too strong for him for he hath broken the bars of brass by the might of his power and unlocked the doors of steel and by the Sword of his Spirit hath he cut our bands assunder even the chains wherewith we were held And therefore I as one that have been in the deep even in bondage under the prince of that world which lies in wickedness do hold forth and testifie unto you that a stronger than he is come Matth. 12.29 who is able to bind the strong-man and spoil all his goods and behold he is nigh unto you who breathes from deliverance from sin for it is he that hath begotten that desire in you and not only so but

satisfie your thirsty souls but to the Fountain of living Waters all come and drink freely then shall you never thirst again then shall you know what it is to drink new Wine with Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven and to sup with him then will you never go more to seek him in the dead letter and other dead creatures but will come to know him and his Life made manifest in you this is the sum and substance of all even to know the Bread of Life in your own houses and your own Fig-tree that you may sit under it where none can make you afraid then will you know the Mystery of Godliness which is very great even God manifest in the flesh But now I feel some weak understandings will be ready to say You seem here to deny the Ordinances of the Lord's Supper Object which we believe are to stand for ever and other outward means and speak as if we must come to live above Ordinances To which I have these words to signifie Although Christ took the Cup saying This is my Blood Answ and likewise the Bread saying This is my Body this do in remembrance of me c. I say this being all the Command you have for it is not sufficient to prove it to remain an Ordinance for ever for he did not say 1 Cor. 11.26 you shall alwayes do this but Do this which signifieth only at that time to keep them in remembrance of him till he came to them again And if after he was come they did use it because of the weakness of some yet that is not sufficient for you to rely upon and so to rest only in the shadows denying the substance as ye do which is to say the Power of God which sets free from sin in this life which indeed is the sum of all John 6.33 35 48 50 51 53 54 55 56. even the Life and Blood of the Lamb of God except which a man partakes of he hath no life in him to which I testifie a man may attain to and not use those things and then what need is there of them the substance being enjoyed And now to speak more plainer to the matter this I say Even as Paul by the Spirit of God cryed down that which God himself commanded Gal. 6.15 which is to say Circumcision saying it availed nothing but only the new creature which was not wrought in any measure by that outward act but by the Circumcision of the heart in and by the Spirit which was the substance of that outward type for the attaining of which he did not preach the outward Gal. 5.6 to be used for the means to bring to the inward but saw plainly that the use of the outward drawed their minds therein to rest Rom. 2.29 Gal. 5.2 short of the thing it self therefore he said If they were circumcised Christ the true Circumcision should profit them nothing And had he any proof for this but onely the Spirit in himself and therefore by the Spirit in the Fear and Authority of God this I say unto you all Bread and Wine Joh. 6.53 54 55. or no Bread and Wine availeth nothing but onely the Body and Blood of the Lamb which is spiritual or all spirit is the main thing even the very substance it self which only is felt and enjoyed by staying the mind inwardly in the Light and Spirit of God and not by eating and drinking in the remembrance thereof and never coming to witness the thing remembred which if you say Yea we do by Faith I tell ye Nay not by the true Faith while you witness not freedom from all sin in this life 1 Joh. 3.3 5.18 neither believe you shall do for they who had the living Faith it purifies them even as Christ was pure who came not to this pure cleansing by such outward things and means as you plead for but they said it was by walking in the Light 1 John 1.7 as God was in the Light that they had their fellowship with him and the Blood of his Son to cleanse them from all sin Jam. 2.20 so there your Faith without these fruits is but a dead faith And now let me appeal to the Witness of God in those who have done it in the most sincerest abundance to God and in so doing it have felt something as ye have thought of the Love of God Yet I say it hath been because your minds were at such times in consideration of the weight of the matter circumspectly stayed upon God in the Spirit and not because you ate the Bread and Wine So then cease making an Idol of it as thinking you cannot enjoy God without it or that the dead creature conveyes any thing of him into you and come down into the Spirit and in it dwell continually which is that that only can and doth do it and so when you come truly in this condition and in it do abide Joh. 14.23 which is to say not only to sup with Christ sometimes but alwayes in the Spirit to make your abode with him and he with you you will then say with me that all these outward things are nothing but the Spirit is all in this matter which whosoever denies Col. 2.21 22. resisteth the everlasting Ordinance of God wherefore touch not taste not handle not any thing that perisheth with the using after the doctrine and commandments of men nor make to your selves the likeness of any earthly thing of the invisible Body and Blood of the heavenly Son of God for if ye do may I not say Oh! miserable is your condition and little are your hearts affected with him who cannot keep in the living remembrance of him without eating and drinking in remembrance of his Death Wherefore O come down to that which crosseth the carnal mind to take up the Cross that it may be crucified thereon then shall you know a dying with him and be made partakers of his Resurrection wherein the sting of Death and the victory of the Grave will be remembred no more And yet further May I not say unto you that the Papists whom you condemn as Idolaters may plead for their using of Images in like manner as you do for your Bread and Wine for they say they worship them not as gods but look upon them in their worshipping of God that so thereby their minds may be fervently fixed upon him having conceived in their hearts that they cannot be so fervent with him without them as with them But Object you say they are deceived for they may draw nearer to God without them Even so say I Answ But mind a little how you in condemning them herein condemn your selves also who have conceived in your selves that you cannot so well keep in the remembrance of Christ and have such communion with the invisible God without the exercise of some visible outward things in the likeness of him as with them Wherefore I