Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	darkness_n	light_n	shadow_n	7,372	5	9.4624	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89829	Antichrist in man, Christ's enemy: who hath been pretending for Christ in notion, but now at his appearance stands up with all his power to deny his Light, and preach him unsufficient. Clearly discovered in an answer to a book titled, Antichrist in man the Quakers idol: set forth by Joshua Miller, wherein he confesseth Antichrist to be in man, but denies the light of Christ within to be sufficient to reveal him, and to witness Christ to be the onely means to salvation, he cals an error, if not damnable. With much more such confused stuffe, discovered for the sake of the simple who are led blind, with such blind guides, to their destruction: that such as will may beware and turn to the Lord, that with his Spirit of truth they may be guided into all truth, and out of this great deceit and enmity, wherein they are led and knows not. By a lover of the seed of God, and one that seeks the peace of lost souls, called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N263; Thomason E869_6; ESTC R202979	13,662	19

not he the light of the world given of the Father for a Covenant of light even to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to enlighten them that sit in darkness and to be the salvation to the ends of the earth and shall not all that knows beleif bear witness against thee that it was Christ that gave light to them when they sat in darkness and in the shadow of death and became a guide in spirit into the way of peace and salvation which salvation by that light in us thou cals accursed Is not here thick darkness that may be felt by all who ever knew any light what a generation of blind guides are you become how hath thick darkness covered you is not the light of God sufficient nor the light of Christ neither what light must it be that is sufficient to lighten them that are in blindness seeing God and Christ is denied by thee or can any say that Jesus is Lord but by the Light and Spirit within and this thou cals accursed and not to be received And thou would reason because all have not Christ therefore he doth not enlighten all contrary to that John 1. 9. and contrary to Christs words who saith the Spirit of truth should lead into all truth he shall take of mine and testifie of me John 15. 26. and 16. 13. and we know there is a light in Spirit that testifies of Christ before Christ be known in the Creature and none can become the Sons of God but who receive the light of Christ according to that Scripture John 1. 12. which thou who knows neither light nor Spirit art Ignorant of and therefore sayes it is an error if not damnable to say the light of Christ is sufficient without some other help And thou goes on in thy confusion telling of a first second and third light which the Scripture knows no such thing but thy own imaginations to blind people withal and thou sayes that which John testifies on Iohn 1. 9. which he cals the true light is but the light of nature or reason and a comparative darkness so they who know no better may beleive that John preacht a natural reason and comparative darkness for all to beleive in and called it the true light and said the world was made by it c. and such blind stuffe thou brings to confute the Quakers And thou goes on to prove this further and brings Pauls words Rom. 2. and thou deals with him as thou does with John and tels two lies together of him first thou sayes he sayes the Gentiles which knew not God do by nature the things contained in the Law yet know not God for all this light when Paul saith they became a law unto themselves and was Jews in spirit whose praise was of God and not of men but doth not say they knew not God who brought forth the Law of God Secondly thou sayes Paul there means by nature nothing else but the light they have to distinguish them from Beasts which is false also for he sayes that light led them to shew the works of that Law God had written in their hearts their conscience bearing witness and excusing them in the day when God shall judge the world by his Gospel which is something else than thou speaks on but that nature which brings forth these fruits thou knows not nor the light and fruits of it which will stand at the day of judgement praised of God but not of Men. And then further to deny that the light of Christ that lighteth every one that cometh into the world to be sufficient sayest thou this opinion contradicts the whole current of the Scripture but can name none it contradicts but seeing thou can quote none against it I shall quote some that shall witness it John 1 9. John 8. 12. Ephes 5. 13 14. Luke 7. 21. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Prov. 4. 23. Isai 49. 6. Luke 2. 33. 1 John 1. ●7 where the wise may see that of all sorts of people Christ is the light which is sufficient and that in spirit within also And thou denies that this light can shew that Christ was born of a Virgin that the world was made of nothing nor convince of the resurrection To which I say none of these was known at first but by the light nor can they be known now as they ought to be though blind guides may talk of them but by the light for it is the Spirit that reveals all things even the hidden things of God and leads into all truth else the knowledge is but a tradition but to thee I say as Job doth of such They that rebell against the light knows not the wayes thereof so thou child of darkness may stop thy mouth for telling what the light can do or not do for the Scripture saith that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it to them but thy knowledge comes not in at that door And thy threefold light thou tels on the first thou cals the light of Nature and saith it is that word John 1 9. and this thou cals the light of God and sayes it is but comparative darkness Thy second thou cals the light of Christ and that thou proves Ephes 5. 14. And the third thou cals the light of Glory and that thou proves John 8. 12. where Christ saith I am the light of the world and this thou sayes speaks in the Future Tense and such mangled stuffe that one that had but common sense would blush at is that which saith I am the light of the world in the Future Tense and not the light of Christ and is the light of God and that Word which was in the beginning which John speaks on by which the world was made become so much less than the light of Christ that it is but comparative darkness did John preach comparative darkness when he said Then this is the message we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light 1 John 1. 5. 6. 7. and in him is no darkness at all and if we walk in his light the bloud of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin But thy message is that the light of God is comparative darkness and that which Christ saith I am the light of the world and he that follows me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life But this thou sayes not now but the time shall come when he that follows me shall have a light without sin so light and following must be in another world but not while this world lasts for this is the term of time the Devil his Ministers would have his Covenant of sin darkness to last but if you make it for any less you must be no Ministers for him nor have none of the worlds glory from him who is the Prince of the world where Christ the Light of the world is not owned and when thou