Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	life_n	resurrection_n	9,018	5	8.6668	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54025	Concerning God's seeking out his Israel likewise concerning the principle of lief [i.e. life] whereby he seekth them and the way of their closing with his spirit therein : as also concerning the two covenants under one whereof he pleaseth to exercise and prepare them for the life and inheritance which he hath treasured up for them in the other : with a postscript relating some things necessary for lost man to be acquainted with in his travels from his lost estate / by Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing P1155; ESTC R30089	16,495	25

seek and visit with the light of his eternal life thus administred through the grace which so far as they fall in with the Lord doth receive them and beget life in them engrafting them into the living Vine and preserving them according to their abiding in it and according to their obedience to him in the springings up of the sap of the Vine in them But besides this common administration of the grace to all mankinde God formerly picked out a people after the flesh of Abraham and afterwards a people after the spirit of Abraham towards whom in a more peculiar way his grace did administer it self and whom he dealt with not as with other Nations but chose to love and work up into life and communion with himself by a more especial administration and visitation of his love and grace The one of these were that people of the Jews the other the believing Christians With the Jews he remembred the Covenant with Abraham By vertue of that he loved and chose them to be his people after the flesh or his outward people by vertue of that he brought them out of Egypt led them through the Wilderness brought them into Canaan giving them an inheritance therein and delivering them from their Enemies time after time Yet he also made another Covenant with them even that of the Law which was suitable to their state and which their nature desired and chose to walk with God in but hardly ever kept it and so brought the curse and misery due thereby upon their heads and at last were utterly cut off so far and so long as the Lord pleaseth to let the curse of that Covenant have power over them untill he shall please again to remember to them his Covenant with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and breath life through it into their dry bones Now though God did make this Covenant with them because they were fleshly and their present state required it yet he did not disanul or make void the other to them all the while their day lasted but remembred loving-kindness and mercy towards them in it often delivering and redeeming them for his own Names sake pointing them also to the word in the heart and the gracious administration thereof But they were blinded and held captive in the earthly nature and principle and in the Law thereof and held their marriage and union with God thereby And so though this administration to the Jews wherein God did strive with them by his Spirit and sometimes stir life and beget a true sensibleness in many of them calling to them for the circumcision of the heart and pointing them to the principle of life in the heart whereby it might be circumcised though this advanced them far above the Heathen yet they through the flesh and the letter at last fell below the very state of the Heathen proving greater enemies to and persecuters of the life than they And so the Lord brake them off from the Olive tree into which they were engraffed and cut them off from the Covenant which he had made with Abraham Isaac and Jacob whereas hitherto though he had been often provoked by and sorely offended with them yet he had still loved them for the Fathers sake After them and in their stead he chose the believing Gentiles engraffing them into the stock from whence these were broken letting them into a sweeter and fuller and more spiritual and abiding estate and influences of the Covenant For here the life was manifested and the light did shine in great beauty and clearness and they were gathered into the true Fold of the Shepherd besides that outward state which was also built up by the Lord and preserved for a season among them and they saw their standing to be by and in the grace and were established in the grace and could feel the good pleasure calling the good pleasure working the good pleasure being and doing all in them and could cry grace grace to this building and say Not for any works that they had wrought or for their faith in or obedience to the light of life which was made manifest but of his own mercy he saved them who wrought in them both the will and the deed of his own good pleasure and preserved them by his power through faith which was of his gift and begetting unto salvation Yet for all this there was somewhat of the Law or light eternal to be administred unto them which was suitable to the natural part or first principle through which they were to travel even until the man or first nature was wholly wasted whereby some of them were in danger of falling away wholly others of coming under chastizement and judgement with which the Lord pursued them that they might not be utterly condemned with the world Mark therefore this brief sum of the matter 1. Man fell under the first Covenant His restitution is never to be thereby but by the second through which God works up vessels into a state of life and glory in the administration of his grace 2. But in this working up of the vessel he sees necessary to make use of the other Covenant according to the capacity that is left in man to answer it and so as that capacity wears out the Covenant of the Law wasteth and passeth away by degrees and the Covenant of grace succeeds and fills up the room thereof 3. There is great danger of falling from the life for some as also of chastizements and judgements to others while this capacity remains even while the earthly nature spirit and principle is not worn out by the entrance death and resurrection of the principle of life in the heart 4. When the first principle is wholly dead and the heart perfectly formed in the life and all perfectly raised and renewed in the life then there is no danger of falling or fear of chastizement but perfect life and peace and joy with God in his spirit of power and glory for ever more 5. Though God begin with man in a Covenant of grace and bring in a Covenant of the Law to man suitable to his present state only in subserviency to the Covenant of grace and would not have man stick there but cling to him in the grace and seek remission through the grace for his own names sake Yet man through the prevalency of the first principle in him and his looking on God through that is apt to fix on this Covenant and draw comfort or discouragement to himself from his own obedience or failings and not live on the freeness of Gods love and the faithfulness of his heart to the soul to all conditions for his Christ's sake This hath been the great error of Israel even of Israel after the flesh and of Israel after the Spirit also that while God layes hold on them by his love promise mercy and grace yet they lay hold on him by another Covenant even their obedience to the Laws he gives forth not