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	sit_v	4,096	5	7.9251	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44228	The harlots vail removed, and her lying refuge swept away by the power of truth, with which she was smitten and wounded being an answer to a book published in the name of about 60 persons of the Independent-Baptized, and mingled peo[ple] in the midst of Babylon, intit'led The church of Christ in Bristol recovering her vail ... : likewise an answer to Thomas Ewins his word, in the close of the said book, in which he acknowledgeth himself no minister ... : also a short rebuke of Ralph Farmer, for lying and dissembling in the case of constant Jessops removing from the parish of Nicholas in the city of Bristol ... : to which are added a few words manifesting the woful fall, and degenerated condition of Richard Fowler ... / by Dennis Hollister.	Hollister, Dennis, d. 1676?	1658 (1658)	Wing H2507; ESTC R13577	111,205	90

not in word but in power And no other Gospel do we own but that which is the Gospel of the kingdom the power of God to salvation which is not in word but in power and is the mystery hid from ages and generations but is revealed by the Spirit to those whom God would make known the riches of his glory c. But saith he namely to bid every man turn to a light within What then doth he bid them turn to the darknesse and to follow the darknesse Doth he think that good Doctrine Luke 11.34 The light of the body is the eye therefore when thy eye is single thy whole body is full of light but if thine eye he evill thy whole bodie also is full of darkness Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness Where there is a single eye is not the body full of light Where the eye is evill is not the body full of darknesse And was not this Christs doctrine who bids people take heed that the light within them be not darkness And were they not to take heed to that which was indeed light within them of which the body was full where the eye was single and to walk in it And the Apostle who was a Preacher and a Minister of the Gospel declared that the light maketh manifest the things that are to be reproved And also that which may be known of God is manifested even in them vvhich vvere vvicked and committed uncleannesse yet still they knevv the judgements of God against such things And is it not good to take heed to that vvhich manifests sin unrighteousnesse and deceit and brings to a knovvledge of the judgements of God against such things and if turned unto and vvalked in leads out of unrighteousnesse and all deceivablenesse But the light vvhich shines in the heart to give the light of the knovvledge of the glory of God he likes not to retain But hath shewed his ignorance or vvickedness if not both and is joyned amongst the vaine rabble and vvicked company not only of the people but also of those called Teachers vvhich himselfe calls an ignorant ungodly lazie proud scandalous soul-murthering Ministry vvho have made themselves base and contemptible in the eyes of all good men and in the consciences of many bad And well were it if he knew what that is in the consciences of many bad which joyns with all good men against such a Ministry who himselfe with the bad is joyned in denying and opposing the light of which the servants of God declare and direct unto and which the Prophets Apostles and holy men of God in Scripture did beare testimony of and that true light and no other do those whom he calls Quakers direct unto which the Scriptures abundantly make mention of The Prophets who spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost preached and directed to the light and groaned after the enjoyment thereof saying Ah! send out thy light and thy truth and let them lead and bring me to thy holy hill and to thy tabernacle and accounted it misery enough to go to the generation of their fathers and not to see the light which say they was sowen for the righteous And Isaiah by the spirit of Prophesie declared that the people that sate in darknesse saw a great light and upon them that sate in the shadow of death hath the light shined And that the light of Israel shall be for a fire and his holy one for a flame which should burn and devour his bryars and thorns in one day And that a light to the Gentiles would God give that should be his salvation to the ends of the earth To which light the Gentiles should come and Kings to the brightnesse of his rising And the Sun shall no more be thy light by day nor for brightness shall the Moon give light unto thee but the Lord shall be thine everlasting light and thy God thy glory And Christ who is the light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world saith I am come a light into the world c. Believe in the light And John who prepared his way did beare witnesse of him that he was the true light which did enlighten every man that cometh into the world And this is prepared before the face of all people a light to lighten the Gentiles to give light to them that sit in darknesse which is the glory of his people Israel And after Christ was ascended and people were not to say in their hearts Who shall ascend to bring Christ down or descend to fetch him up c. Paul a Minister of the Gospel was sent to turn peoples mindes from darknesse to the light and to the light did he turn them and said God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined into our hearts but to what end Why saith Paul to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God c. But of this Thomas Ewins is no Preacher to wit to turne people to the light within which shines in the heart to give the knowledge of the glory of God c. But against this saith he came Henry Jesse from London to establish and confirm the people of Bristol c. This he calls the pernicious Doctrine of the Quakers and would perswade his Reader that those who bid turn to the light within do shut up the Kingdome of Heaven against men and do thereby take them off from believing in the person of Christ But this is an absolute lye and in this he is one with the Pharisees for they denyed the light and opposed the truth which enlihgtneth every man And he proclaims himself no Preacher of that namely to tmrn to the light So in this is he joyned with the Pharisees to shut the Kingdome of heaven against men by denying the Light For no man can ever knew God nor into his kingdome did enter whilst he denyed or opposed the light in him but they that entred did owne it and the saying of the Reprobate is not much to be heeded He saith he supposeth we would have him give over Preaching and come to our way and that one told him hee kept many from receiving and embracing the light To which I say He doth his uttermost to hinder if his words or writing may do it and with the God of the world and all his Ministers throughout the Nations is he joyned to do what they can to keep blinde the mindes of all that believe not in the light lest the light of the glorious Gospel should shine into their hearts to give the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Yet indeed the good of his and all mens soules we do desire but all his hypocrisie falshood and deceit we do deny And if he own our way which is the true light the true and living way his mouth would soon be stopt for declaring against it And for all his denying