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	sin_n	word_n	4,388	5	4.1531	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60664	Univeral love In which a visitation floweth through the creation, that all people may be informed into the truth, and in their several places come to walk in the truth, and live in the truth, to be a good favour unto God, and honour God. 1. To parents of children. 2. To masters and dames of families. 3. To servants in their places. 4. To aged people. 5. To such as live a single life. 6. To young people. 7. To children. 8. To such as are in outward government. 9. To ministers of parishes, so called. 10. To such as practise in the nations law. 11. To such as trade in wights and measures. 12. To such as buy and sell in the markets or in any other places. With a general exhortation. Also something concerning faith, and hope, and love, and the word, and mans restless part, and the election, and a particular place of bondage opened. ... William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1668 (1668)	Wing S4344; ESTC R219638	76,293	165

knew it to be the Word of Faith and the Word of Eternal Life and the Word is the same this day and the glory of it is seen and the vertue of it is felt and fed upon for as in the beginning it generated and generation was brought forth by it so now it doth regenerate and the new born babe desires the sincere milk of it and the Word feeds it and nourishes it with its own goodness so the babe feeds upon the Word and receives the milk of the Word as its natural food and it doth not live by any other thing and whilest it is a new born babe the Word gives it milk but when through nourishment it grows into strength then it eats the flesh for the Word is made flesh and the flesh is meat indeed and this must people eat if they have life in Christ for Christ is the Word and Christ is the Life and they that do not eat him have no Life in him And this is a hard saying to all unbelievers for such said in times past how can this man give us his flesh to Eat and this is the bread that comes down from Heaven which if a man eat he shall never dye they are blessed that believes in this for Christ is the Bread of Life and all that hungers after him in truth he feeds them according to his own pleasure and here is living water felt from Christ the fountain and here is meat known that endures to Everlasting life and with his vertue and goodness the soul is replenished and comforted and this is the Word which is near every man who shall ascend to fetch it down from above or who shall descend to fetch it from below but what faith it the Word is night thee even in thy heart and in thy mouth to obey it and do it and there must man know it and obey it if ever he come to feed upon it and he must first know it as a reprover and then as a hammer and a fire to break down and burn up all that drossie nature that is in him and the rebellious part that stands in opposition against the Lord. And this is the Word which is nigh unto every man alwayes taking hold upon the transgressor in Judgment and as a swift witness overtakes the transgressor in all his wayes and in that place it is quick and powerful and sharper than a two Edged sword if a man commit Evil the Word hath a quick motion to find him and is powerful to judge him and sharp to wound him and the hairy scalp of the wicked is wounded by the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and so it manifests it self in man according to the present disposition of a man if darkness dispose him and that he be in the Evil either in thought word or deed then the Word stands against him and is quick and powerful and sharp and a hammer and a fire and man may feel it to be so in its operation for it is to be understood that the Word in it self is an unchangeable being and one pure perfect intire body of love yet the manifestations of it appears diversly as man stands before it and it hath its operation in man according to mans present disposition for if he sin he is quickly overtaken with Judgement and that which overtakes him and Judges him is the Word and there he may feel it powerful and sharper then a two Edged sword and through his obedience to it in that manifestation then it becomes a hammer and a fire in its operation and it is as a fire in his bones to consume the fleshly part in every place And by this a young man may cleanse his wayes for if a man take heed to the Word when it manifests it self with Reproof and when it shews him the out-goings of his mind and his wandering thoughts and vain imaginations and the body of sin and death that is in him and doth defile him and separate him from God if he take heed to the Word when it manifests secret Evils which is its nature to do then it will become a light to his feet and a lanthorn to his paths and he will find it to be a true guide unto him yea in his lowest state it will be a light to his feet and guide his feet and then man doth not err when he comes to the Word in himself and takes heed unto it then the Word becomes a light to his feet for the Word is light and man following the light and walking in the light he doth not stumble but walks safely and with the light of the Word he sees his way and sees all dangers as they lye And he that thus takes heed to the Word and answers the Word and comes to obey it when it reproves him then the Word lifts him up and sets his feet in the way and so becomes a light to his feet to guide him that he may not err and the Word gives man strength to follow it and then he begins to travel out of the dark Corners of the Earth and out of the Earthly habitations and follows the Word and believes in the promise of the Word and this is an Express Word in every man it speaks Expressly in his Conscience according to the state it finds him in and so it may be known manifesting it self as mans present state and condition is and as man takes heed unto it he takes heed to the light and the light guides his feet out of all perverse wayes and crooked wayes and froward wayes and guides him and leads him in the way of peace and so it is a cleansing Word who takes heed unto it are cleansed by it for a young man may clense his ways by taking heed to the Word and by obeying the word and man that takes heed unto it and obeys it the cleansing water of the word goes through him and it cleanses out of him all the corrupt and bad nature that hath defiled him and made him unclean then man may feel the water of the word to wash him and the water of Regeneration to renew him and here the word plunges man in its own pure water and washes him and makes his in-side clean and so his heart is washed and made clean and his mind is made clean and his body clean and here is the Baptiser and the baptising which doth not lye outward for the taking away the filth of the flesh but makes a man clean within and renews him in the spirit of his mind unto God and so washes away the filth of the old nature which hath loadned and burdened the tender Seed And this is the water of the word which flows in man as man takes heed unto it and obeys it and then man is sanctified by the word and the word is truth and being thus cleansed and washed and sanctified by the word then it becomes the word of reconciliation and the

conceived and through the motion of the Principle is manifested and in obedience observed and whoever judges the observation of this practice they judge the power of God in the ground because it is a practise observed in obedience to the motion of the power for as I know that Regeneration doth lie wholly inward as to the work of it so I also know that being wrought and perfected the Seed of God doth manifest its own nature which may be seen without and where it is not so the Seed is in bondage and Regeneration is not perfected And who would know Regeneration perfected they must learn to stand still and not to oppose the power by which Regeneration is wrought and perfected nor to reason against the operation of the power for in doing so they wrong themselves but in standing still and eyeing the power in its motion obeying the power when it moveth the power will call the reason into silence and having silenced the reason it then hath a free course to work effectually and then the belief standing in the power the power comes over every strong hold and layes the fenced Cities wast and brings desolation upon every part of the oppressing nature and strikes the whole body of it with death for with the Power all things are possible And this comes to pass in all that in the power believe and being come to pass and perfected then is the Seed raised and in the Seeds resurrection man becomes wholly changed and renewed and both body soul and spirit glorifies God then doth the Seed manifest it self in its perfect holiness which holiness cannot own any manifestation of darkness and in this path is perfect peace and satisfaction for to be regenerated and born again is a state beyond the strongest part of mans own reason and is is a work which reason can never bring to pass and therefore lies beyond it and is not to be comprehended with that part but as the belief stands in the power so the power worketh and removeth that nature which hath oppressed and the Seed is raised in the power and comes up in the power and there is Gods salvation felt and known and all his fresh springs opens in his Love and Life and the birth is nourished with his vertue and feeds upon that which is good for food And here is eating and living feeding and rejoycing the presence of the Lord is felt and fulness of joy in his presence and his Love and Life and Wisdom spreads abroad and his pure Nature is manifest in all good works and hath a Testimony against all the evil and the Birth delights to do the Fathers will and doth not reason against his Counsel but 〈◊〉 a witness unto the Truth and against that which is out of the Truth in every place So let this be read in the fear of the Lord God and with a meek spirit in the love for it is love to the Seed And know that the Living Stone is the sure Foundation though the wise Builders do reject it and upon that the Building is fitly ●●●med and stands and rejoyces though many tempests blows upon it And take heed of Judas for he betrayes with a kiss From a Lover of the Seed of God universally William Smith THou pure Life what is like unto thee Thy Path is Peace thy Love is full and free 〈◊〉 art the chiefest good thy beauty doth excel ●lessed are those that in thy Bosom dwell 〈◊〉 fulness of thy Springs do satisfie the poor ● 〈◊〉 freshness of thy Streams is alwayes rich in store 〈…〉 of thy own hand doth take deep root in thee 〈◊〉 supplies its tenderness and sets it wholly free 〈…〉 first and last and there is not another 〈…〉 liberty in thee they do not thy Life smother 〈…〉 love they spring and in thy Power stand 〈…〉 in Life and Peace and rest safe in thy hand THE END