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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	sin_n	true_a	4,199	5	5.1283	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54065	Some things of great weight and concernment to all briefly opened, and held forth from a true sense and understanding, for the healing of the ruines and breaches, which the enemy of mankind hath made in mans souls, as 1. Some assertions concerning the principle and way of life, 2. Some further directions to Christ, the principle and fountain of life, 3. The end of Christ's manifestation, His Salvation, and whom He saves, 4. Three questions answered concerning justification, 5. Of the pure, constant, eternal, unchangeable nature of God's Truth / written in the time of my confinement in Alisbury when love was working in me, and the life of God in me travelling and wrestling with the Lord for the salvation of others, Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1667 (1667)	Wing P1204; ESTC R14964	13,989	22

doth not rightly hope and without the true Knowledg the right Faith and Hope how can any man be saved Therefore awake awake O weary thirsty souls Come to the spring of Life come to the living Waters Become little that ye may learn of Christ wait to have your eyes anointed that ye may see him and your hearts opened that ye may know and receive him O wait for the manifestation of this Seed in you be abased before him joyn to him receive his checks receive mourning and repentance from him wait for the Light and Faith that he gives and the Power that issues from his Throne and ye shall find him the bruiser of the Serpent head which none else is able to do and the breaker of the bond of Iniquity which keeps down the Just and lets the Unjust at liberty till he dissolve it And this is sufficient to manifest against all the disputes of the mind that this is He and no other by his doing that which none else can do This demonstration he gave to the Jews in flesh in his appearance in flesh and this demonstration he giveth now to the Jews in Spirit in his appearance in Spirit whereby he satisfieth their hearts and putteth them out of doubt that it is he And we must profess to the world as our hearts are drawn and guided by the Lord to give forth the testimony we have received of him that we look not yea we cannot look for another Whom should we look for besides the Lamb besides the Word which was in the beginning besides him who is one with the Father and hath the Eternal Life Wisdom Righteousness and Power of the Father and manifesteth it in us We look for indeed more of the same and the more universal and powerful breaking of it forth but another thing another Christ another Life Spirit Power c. we cannot look for And this we further testifie that whoever receives this Testimony in the truth and uprightness of his heart waiting on that which discovers sin to him and in simplicity joyning and giving up thereto and walking with him in forsaking the evil and cleaving to the good in the faith of him and of his power he shall witness the same thing with us and all the reasonings imaginations and strong holds of his mind shall be battered down and come to nothing before the vertue power and life of him who thus is pleased to appear and manifest himself after the Apostacy even as he did before even in an inward Principle an inward Seed an inward Light an inward Life an inward Word an inward Power And Friends and People mark in your minds and learn to put a right difference betwen that which stumbles you and that which draws and convinces you What makes any of you own Truth at any time is it not an inward lively powerful touch and demonstration of Gods Spirit what makes you afterwards doubt and question is it not another thing of a different nature from this is it not a subtil reasoning whereby the enemy twines into your spirits and begets first a doubt concerning then a prejudice and at last a great strength against that which before ye had some sence of and some unity with in the teachings and quickenings of the Spirit of the Lord. And what spirit is it in you that thus worketh in your minds and whither doth he lead you by these workings and subtile reasonings Oh that ye might see Oh that ye might feel the snare and know with us the Preserver there-from for we have met with much of this and had we not been helped by the Lord and given up to him we had been entangled to this very day as ye are And he that hath helped us waits to be gracious to you and O that you would not reject his help that he might deliver you also that ye also might bless his Name in feeling the benefit and joy of his preservation And this is written in true bowels and tender yearning love that ye might be a little stirred up to wait to know the Fathers house and might feed on the bread which abounds therein and drink of the waters which makes fresh and living to God and be clothed with the raiment which the Master of the family gives to his Spouse Children and Servants The end of Christs Manifestation his Salvation and whom he saves CHRIST came and is manifested in the hearts of those that receive him to destroy the works of the Devil and to set the soul free from sin and whom he maketh free are free indeed Is the Liberty which the Son giveth inferiour in this Life in its kind to the captivity and bondage of the Enemy in its kind Which of them is stronger the Enemy to enthrall or the Lord Jesus Christ to set free from his Thraldom Yes the Lord Jesus Christ the Captain of our Salvation the mighty Saviour who is more able to save than the Enemy to destroy delivereth his Israel out of the hands of their Enemies and so mightily and powerfully delivereth them that they are able in the power of his Might to serve him without fear of them any more in holiness and righteousness before him all the dayes of their life It is true there is a state of darkness sin and death wherein Satan reigns and there is a state of weakness wherein Satan much prevails if the watch be not strictly kept to him who is the everlasting strength and there is a state of fighting and groaning under the body of sin and death and crying out who shall deliver from it But there is also a state of growth in the Life and of Victory through the Life over that which captiv'd and caused to cry out There is a treading down of Satan under the feet by the God of Peace insomuch as not only the Elders but the very young-men in Christ overcome and triumph over him feeling the enterance ministred to them abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom into which no unclean thing can enter Oh! wonderful is the travel to the holy Rest of the pure Life Happy are they that meet with the true Leader and faithfully follow him till they have travelled through and overcome all that stands in their way for to them and to them alone is the promise of the possession of the everlasting Inheritance and such find and feel the Lord to be their God indeed and themselves to be his Children brought forth in his holy Life and Nature which to feel in truth and certain knowledge is more than tongue can utter Christ saves only those that come unto him and believe in him and so are born of his Spirit by the faith and through the strength and vertue of his Spirit overcome the wicked one his works snares and temptations in their hearts And these feel in themselves the Root of his Life the holy Seed of his Kingdom springing up in them into which they are ingrafted and become one with