Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	deliver_v	good_a	lord_n	8,077	5	5.2704	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60628	The everlasting truth exalted being a plain testimony unto the manifestations, growth and prosperity of truth : also some dangers opened and discovered in the not receiving truth, or having received it, departing from it : also a short testimony unto gospel meetings and fellowship ... / William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1669 (1669)	Wing S4299; ESTC R3823	20,906	26

THE Everlasting Truth EXALTED BEING A plain Testimony unto the Manifestation Growth and Prosperity of TRUTH ALSO Some Dangers opened and discovered in the not receiving Truth or having received it departing from it ALSO A short Testimony unto Gospel Meetings and Fellowship with a tender Invitation unto all that are afar off to come and unto all that are departed and gone away to return William Smith Printed in the Year 1669. The Everlasting Truth Exalted c. AFter the long Night of Apostacy had overspread the Earth and the gross Darkness of it covered and remained upon the people and that none could be found among the Sons of men to lead and deliver out of it then did the Lord manifest himself from Heaven and the Light began to spring as the morning and to give light to such as sat in darkness and under the shadow of death and though many travelled in pain as being soarly opprdssed by the power of darknes yet when the Lord did manifest his Light and his Love in it there were not many could believe that it was he and so they received him not though he came unto them for their good But to as many as received him to them he gave power to become the Sons of God even to as many as believed in his Name which were born not of Flesh nor of Blood nor of the will of man but of God and so the Love of God is manifested in sending his only begotten Son into the World to be a Light unto the World that all in him might believe and receive Life but that which is born of Flesh and Blood and of the will of man doth not believe that the Light is he whom God sendeth and therefore receives him not in his Light when he makes himself manifest for that nature expecteth some higher or greater appearance of Christ then in his Light but as John bare witness of Christ to be the true Light so his appearance is not to be expected after any other manner or in any other thing for whatsoever is contrary to that which is true is false and there is but one thing true or Truth it self and that John testifies to be the Light with which Christ enlighteneth every one that comes into the World and as the Light is true or Truth it self so the expectation is to be drawn off from all other things as being false and the mind is to turn to the Light as being only true and though it seem as a low or little thing in its manifestation yet there is nothing which in it self is true besides it and therefore most worthy of all things to be loved and obeyed in the least appearance of it for who dispises the day of small things cannot come to the day of glory where the Son ruleth and here many have suffered loss as to the benefit which in the Light they might have received and enjoyed for not loving and obeying the appearance or breaking forth of the Light in a small measure it doth not go on in such unto a perfect day but being despised as a small thing or a thing of no value it draweth into it self again the manifestation and then none can see the way unto God nor walk in the Path of Life for the Light being dispised and so withdrawing it self there is nothing but darkness remains to be the Guide and such as walks in darkness knows not whither they go because darkness hath blinded their minds and this hath been an occasion of stumbling unto many who have not loved the Light but despised it for in darkness they stumble and many times fall but in the Light which is the plain Path there is no stumbling and they that do not walk in that Path but dispises it and stumbles at it they walk in the broad way and in that way they cannot have peace for they that despise the day of small things they dispise that by which Peace cometh and none can have peace whilst they despise that by which it comes for they that would have peace with God must receive and entertain the Light and not dispise it and though it may appear but as a little thing yet peace is found in the least appearance of it as it is loved and obeyed but the high and softy cannot bow unto it the birth of Flesh and Blood and of the will of man expects some higher and greater thing and when the Light manifests it self by reproof in the Conscience there is not submission but rather dispising for the broad way is more delightfull to that birth then the narrow and therefore it is that the broad way is filled with many walkers and so many may see the Morning and not come to see the perfect day for if the Light in its manifestation be not loved and obeyed there is not a going forward in the Truth nor any growth and increase witnessed and so the Light hath manifest it self in many and they have seen the darkness by the manifestation but not loving and obeying the Light that it might become their Teacher and Leader they still abide in darkness and are not redeemed and delivered and that is the thraldom and bondage where many yet remains who have been visited with the day-spring from on high they do not love nor obey the Light when it springs and manifests it self unto them and so they keep themselves in their own sorrow and misery by loving and obeying darkness for if the Light be followed in love as being only true there is not an abiding in darkness but a coming to the Light of Life and so Christ said I am the Light of the World he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness which thing is true in him and in all those that follow him for in the appearance of his Light the darkness passeth away and the power of it groweth weaker and then comes redemption and deliverance out of Darkness unto those that love and obey the Light and so they come out of the pollutions and defilements into that which is pure and holy and righteous and these are only the people which are found to the praise and glory of God for who have been visited and do not obey the Lord they are not found to his praise and glory but are sound in that by which God is dishonoured and who have tasted of the good Word of God and the powers of the World to come and have seen many great and wonderfull things and afterwards go from the Light and lose their stedfastness they are not found to the praise and glory of God but dishonoureth his Name and Truth and People for they that sometimes did own the Light to be true or Truth it self and for a season rejoyced in it and as Disciples took up the Cross to follow it and now are grown weary of walking in the narrow way and so are gone back and follows no further they cannot be found to the praise and glory