Selected quad for the lemma: death_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A96015
|
A loving advertisement unto all those who joyn together to persecute the innocent.
|
Vokins, Joan, d. 1690.
|
1671
(1671)
|
Wing V686; ESTC R186072
|
3,775
|
1
|
Worship deceiv'd my Soul for when Christ Jesus through his Love unto my soul did make known his Light in my heart which shew'd me the narrow Way which leadeth unto Life then I chose rather to suffer with the People of God then to enjoy your Favour or all the Pleasures or Profits or Honour this World can afford And all you that think ye are a doing as you should do turn unto the Light that you may see what you are a doing and may become from Persecutors to be Sufferers even as Paul was through his obedience unto the Light and he thought when he was in Darkness and blind Zeal that he did as he should do Oh! therefore take you heed and be no longer deceiv'd but turn unto Paul's Light before it be too late for the time hasteneth and passeth away and there is nothing else that will stand you in stead when time shall be no more O therefore be awakened and arise from the Dead that Christ Jesus may be your Light and your Leader as he was David's For what doth it profit you to read the Scriptures or to hear of the Promises or Mercies of the Lord unto the Children of Light This will stand you in no stead whil'st you your selves are in Darkness and under the shaddow of Death Oh do not heap up that unto your selves which you have no Right unto for you are in the Darkness in the Persecuting state which was and is alwayes blind And how dare you in such a state to appear before the Lord Do you think his all-seeing Eye doth not behold your Doings Yes verily and his Righteous Judgments assuredly will find you out and then all your talking of that you live not in will do you no good How often have you and your Teachers been reading and talking of loving Enemies and of walking in the Light as Christ is in the Light and many such like things and yet are found hating of your soul's Friends who are telling you the Truth and reproving you for Evil and you are so far from walking in the Light that you remain in your Sins and plead for so doing until the last Do you think that the Lord will be limitted by you until the last Hour Oh turn to the Reproofs of his Light in your hearts which maketh manifest the evil of your wayes whil'st the Day of God's Love lasteth unto you that through his precious Judgments your souls may come to be redeemed for it s through Judgment that Sion witnesseth Redemption and the honest heart loveth Judgment and if you will obey the Light it will lead you into Judgment and when you come to witness your souls redeem'd thereby then you will witness David's state who said O Lord how I love thy Judgments and he desir'd the Lord to send forth his Truth and his Light to lead him and it was his Law and he walk'd in it And if you would do so you would have the Royal Law of Love in your hearts and then you would have Fellowship with Jesus and feel the Effects of his Blood to cleanse you from all sin on this side the Grave and then you will plead no longer to strengthen the Devil's kingdom for if you die in your sins you will add greatly to his Kingdom for those that live and die in their sins do never inherit the Kingdom of Heaven for no unclean thing can come there but they are for the Lake that burneth forever Written the 9th Day of the 11th Moneth 1670. By one that wishes well to all Souls Joan Vokins