Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	soul_n	14,602	5	5.1897	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52705	Milk for babes: and meat for strong men A feast of fat things; wine well refined on the lees. O come young men and maidens, old men and babes, and drink abundantly of the streams that run from the fountain, that you may feel a well-spring of living water in yourselves, springing up to eternal life; that as he lives (even Christ Jesus) from whence all the springs do come, so you may live also, and partake of his glory that is ascended at the right hand of the Father, far above principalities and powers. Being the breathings of the Spirit through his servant James Naylor, written by him in the time of the confinement of his outward man in prison, but not published till now.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Booth, Mary, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing N299; ESTC R202065	26,742	32

hunt about for freedom yet if any Carnal Way be opened it will form a fair pretence as though it were of God which is not of God and this seeks to betray the just faithful one from you would part you from your chast waiting upon him whom you love taking his advantage by your hast weariness weakness in the journey But that which only minds to be obedient to God in suffering and acting with faith and diligence nearkning with all Long-suffering what Meekness and Patience saith thinking it a greater thing to obtain Counsel from that then ease from another believing that no other thing can give an expected end but that to wit an inheritance in that you wait for and therefore count nothing dear that you may win him thinking no time long nor any thing hard to endure for the joy and beauty that is set before you This wil never deceive you of the Redemption of Truth your Love and Redeemer and Lord is One and you shal not be put to your sleighty shifts as they that go out from that Spirit are for you shal feel and see your Redeemer in the misst of you and with his body shal you rise and live and you shal not be ransomed with silver or gold from the hand of the Opressor but by the pretious blood of Christ as a Lamb without spot not with any corruptible thing but his Long-suffering Faith and Patience his Love and meek Spirit shal set you out of all darkness and above all fears and your freedom wil be perfect and inheritance large when all that would not stay upon him alone are consumedin the fiery tryals which haste ease and distrust wil never bring to an end til which you are not fit to be joined to him you love in everliving obedience and everlasting praises the portion of all who have waited on him and have found him faithful in the End And having Learned this mystery of Godliness and found the worth of it you having found his way perfect and pure and him faithful to such as walk therein you may be able to direct the simple and unlearned in their desirable way to rest and your words have in them a manifestation of life and quickning power is with you this shal be your everlasting strength that you are redeemed with that you so dearly loved And this you shal feel in the way that the more diligently you wait upon him in all Conditions you pass through even so the more do you receive of him by drinking in of that heavenly virtue that is in him who is the meek and patient one and by supping continually with him and he with you wil you come so to be filled with him that all haste and impatiency and distrust will be covered and overcome with him and so your Mortal be swallowed up of the Immortal till it become your whole Life and Being and all your Thoughts Words and Actions have their Rise and Being therein so that Self be seen no more nor that appear in which Death and Condemnation have any entrance or power And this shall you find to be the House from Above and Heavenly City in which the holy Spirits live and walk and have Communion as they come to be perfected of which the LAMB is the Light and Salvation into which none enter but who through his Meekness and Long-suffering are ransomed and by Faith therein redeemed Who being thus builded see no more sorrow nor fear of falling the Foundation being everlasting elect and precious and every Stone therein tryed in the fire and in faithfulness chosen for that end So with all diligence sink down to feel the Election not minding that which boasts in high words before it be tryed but when it comes into the fire will not stand patient in the Tryal but through that being given up to death seek for that which lies under in the sufferings which calls you down from every high thought To him come down into the pit who bears all things without complaining that with him you may suffer and with him you may obey and in all things he may be with you and you with him this is the Election make him sure to your selves in life and death so shall you be changed with him and though you go down into the lower parts of the Earth in the carnal body he shall raise you spiritual though sown weak yet raised in Power if you rise not but with him as he raises you if you cast not off the Yoak nor flye the Cross nor heal your own wound though your wound be mortal yet the cure is immortal though you go down in shame and reproach yet raised in glory and covered with immortal honour and eternal life with power and strength to fulfil the will of God and the answer of a good Conscience through this Baptism and Resurraction you shall attain and so become one Spirit with him that dwells in the light in death in sufferings in patience in faith and in obedience which otherwise no mortal man can approach to there being that to be fulfilled which the Light requires which the first man born hath not in power so by that Law his life he must lose which hath power over the Transgressor as long as he lives and joined to Christ cannot be till to that Law he be dead So the first which is earthly the Law kills because of sin and want of obedience but he that is born again is of the Spirit and lives because of righteousness and obedience so the boaster is excluded being concluded under sin that the mercy may arise in the meek principle over all to fulfil all The Light saith Love thy Neighbour as thy self This the first born cannot do so the boaster is excluded and the Law lays hold on that life which wants this love and the Creature must give up that to death that he may come to the meek Spirit for the power of that life and obedience that hath righteousness in it and the Creature drawing his mind and affections and faith ●rom the first who hath words without power and giving these to the second the first falls withers and dies in that vessel and as the mind is diligent in the second he rises in the Faith and raiseth the power of obedience in that vessel and so as he rises through the Law he brings forth fruits above the Law against which there is no Law so he in whom the Covenant is and hath the power of obedience to righteousness puts an end to the Law So he being denied dead and buried whose life arose through disobedience who is the Transgressor and because of whom the Law was added that Law becomes dead also he that fulfils the Law is he that gave it forth and is the end thereof in whom by Faith you live and inherit this right eousness as you put him on through death who is this life So being faithful in the Light shal

your fleshly part for that is the Sons way to perfection and the wondrous works of the Father are learned in the deep for by the hand of God upon you being faithful in suffering to the end shal you see the old Foundation of the World the root and off-spring of all Wickedness how it came to be laid and how the Lamb is slain and what he is and the Foundation of God shall you see and feel upon which the Saints were raised up and built in the Spirit and how all the Chaff Hay and Stubble comes to be cleansed off for his fan is in his hand and the words of his mouth are a consuming fire to that Nature who refineth the Gold and quickeneth the Soul and divideth the clean from the unclean And the nearer you draw to God the nearer will he draw to you in Righteousness and Judgement and Truth to make an end of sin and bring in everlasting Righteousness and to establish you in his inheritance who appear in his Temple through the Refiners fire and Fullers Sope the end of all sufferings and entrance into everlasting joy purity and peace and weight of Eternal glory to which there is no other way but through affliction But as you come down to the Foundation of God watch with all fear and diligence that nothing exalt you or lift you up in mind conceit or comprehension faster then with that Foundation you are builded for many temptations of haste will present themselves with fears and distrust to get you from off the Foundation of Life but if you keep lowly steadfast and faithful thereto with it you shall be raised out of the Pit and set above the Earth And for that end is it laid within you that in Spirit you may be built thereon in order like the Corner-stone a new man not the same that goes down and none knoweth the way of his rising but as he keepeth to the foundation and mindeth the head of the Corner which as you diligently mind you shall know the sure Foundations of the holy City even from the Word of the beginning of Christ as you grow to his fulness the Foundations of Repentance of Faith of Doctrines of Baptisms of the Resurrection of the dead and of eternal Judgement And as with the Foundation of Life and Power you come to be edified you will be led thorow the dominions of Death where you shall learn wherein it hath its power and by what it reigns and how it captivates the Seed and how its Bouds are broken and with what he is taken and chained who hath the power of death and so come to see what binds and what looses kills and makes alive the Life of the Lavv the Life of the Prophets and the Life of the Apostles as they passed before you vvill you come to knovv their in heritance therein to possess and vvith them in Spirit have fellovvship as they passed the time of their Pilgrimage here that to the Life of Christ you may come for the fulfilling of the Word of God vvhich endureth from Generation to Generation This being the end of all the travels of the souls of righteous men and women here belovv vvhich that they might attain the fulfilling thereof and so return in peace to him from vvhence they came cloathed on vvith their heavenly House for which prize they counted all things loss here below casting off the Earthly pleasures and killing every affection thereto estranged therefrom in all their vvalking vvhile they are here knovving that the love to the earthly things is the enemy to their spiritual ascending and that the Earthly Adulterous Spirit daily hunts to devour the precious Life and to keep the soul in things below presenting daily its delights carnal and opening the pathes of the destroyer with pleasures to the carnal eye which whosoever joins to cannot ascend into the heavenly Inheritance but with the dark World daily go downward who are degenerated from the Life of God and estranged from it even from the Womb so that they are never able to attain the knowledge of God nor in truth and righteousness to call him Father nor to say they came out from him nor ever to him can return This they being willingly ignorant of that no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven who is born not of the corruptible Seed nor begotten but by the Word of God which liveth and abideth for ever But with you it is not so neither are you going that way who feel the heavenly motion drawing your minds out of all earthly delights the taste of the Heavenly Life overcoming the Earthly in your affections so that to the World you dye daily and you feel something quickned in you that cannot feed on earthly pleasures but hunger after righteousness and see a beauty in holiness and thirst daily after the Heavenly Virtue So to that sink down into its likeness which is yet in the bonds of death and hunger with it and suffer with it and join to it in all its counsel so that with it you may be raised for that is it which is on the foundation of God and coming to him as a living stone you will be built on the same Foundation the same Spirit being your Head by whose Resurrection all the Vails will be done away the Vail of Death the Vail of the Law the Vail of the Prophets and the whole mystery of godliness will be unsealed and the way to Heaven opened by him even the slain Lamb who hath his power from the midst of the Throne of God even for you if you join to him in his sufferings and ascendings who maketh the way betwixt Heaven and Earth and keepeth it open in all them who mind him therewith to possess the Vessel in holness and fear towards God so that nothing shall hinder your prayers from coming to the Throne of God nor the dew and blessing of Heaven from falling upon the Seed and here is Heaven opened and the way of grace and salvation for the wayfaring man here on Earth to walk in in which if you wholly exercise your minds you shal not err nor shall any thing be able to hinder you from receiving Gifts from the Father so long as nothing of a contrary Nature stops his own from arising to him in praises and you with it So let nothing cut off your Communion with God in that measure you already have received but let the breathings of your souls and your hearts be continually open towards him and therein you shall not onely receive but become faithful improvers of what you have by the blessing that is the Covenant that is with all that love him that dwells in the Light for where the conversation is in Heaven there the Earth becoms fruitful Wherefore give all diligence that nothing have your affections here below or stop your heavenly mind from its constant ascending for that is the spirit of Bondage which hath

in the day of the deep tryal of his Innocent Lamb even how the Lord was with him when he was beset with darkness and assaulted with strong temptation and how he brought him thorow the Fire and thorow the Sea and under the Mountains and Hills and slevv his Enemy which had Dominion over him and so brought him to know himself and then exalted him over death and delivered him out of the pit in the sight of his Enemies and brought him to the pleasant Valleys Springs again caused his glory to descend upon him in which he met the Flock of his Father in whose Love he became joined and knit unto them that had forsook or stood at a distance from him Also many other weighty Sentences all vvhich are set forth that the vvonders of the Lord may be seen and that flesh may not boast nor glory in the time of prosperity though much of God may be opened and knovvn and that the tender-hearted may not despair in the times of deepest sufferings temptations and tryals but patiently vvait on him vvho worketh all things in his people according to the counsel of his ovvn vvil that he over all and in all things may be glorified vvhose right alone it is So be it Allelujah IT is in my heart to praise thee O my God let me never forget thee what thou hast been to me in the Night by thy Presence in the Day of Trial when I was beset in darkness when I was cast out as a wandring bird and when I was assaulted with strong Temptations then thy presence in secret did preserve me and in a low estate I felt thee near me when the floods sought to sweep me away thou set'st a compass for them how far they should pass over when my way was through the Sea and when I passed under the Mountains there wer't thou present with me when the weight of the hills was upon me thou upheldst me else had I sunk under the earth when I was as one altogether helpless when tribulation and anguish was upon me day and night and the Earth without foundation when I went on the way of wrath and passed by the gates of hell when all comforts stood afar off and he that is mine enemy had dominion when I was cast into the pit and was as one appointed to death when I was between the milstones and as one crushed with the weight of his adversary as a father thou wer 't with me and the rock of thy presence when the mouth of Lions roared against me and fear took hold on my soul in the pit then I called upon thee in the night and my cries were strong before thee daily thou answeredst me from thy habitation and delivered from thy dwelling place saying I will set thee above all thy fears and lift up thy feet above the head of oppressi in I believed and was strengthened and thy word was salvation Thou didst fight on my part when I wrestled with death and when darkness would have shut me up then the light shone about me and thy banner was over my head when my work was in the furnace and as I passed through the fiery spirits thy faith staied me else through fear I had fallen I saw thee and believed so the enemy could not prevail VVhen I lookt back into thy work I was astonished and see no end of thy praises Glory glory to thee saith my soul and let my heart be ever filled with thanksgiving whilst thy works remain they shall shew forth thy power then didst thou lay the foundation of the earth and feddest me under the waters and in the deeps didst thou shew me wonders and the forming of the world by thy hand Thou least me in safety till thou shewedst me the pillars of the earth then did the heavens shower down they were covered with darkness and the powers thereof were shaken and thy glory descended thou fill'dst the lower parts of the Earth with gladness and the valley was opened thy showers descended abundantly so the Earth was fill'd with virtues Thou madest thy Plant to spring and the thirsty soul became as a watered Garden then didst thou lift me out of the pit and set me forth in the sight of mine enemy thou proclaimedst liberty to the captive and called my acquaintance near me they to whom I have been a wonder and in thy love I obtained favour in those who had forsaken me then did gladness swallow up sorrow and I forsook all my troubles And how good is it that man be proved in the night that he may know his safety that every mouth may become silent in thy hand until thou make man known to himself and have slain the Boaster and shewed him the vanity that vexeth thy soul DEar Friends dwell in the pure Power of God and in the undefiled Life walk towards one another and feel one another in harmless hearts and in the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ judge all straightness in your selves rather then one another How good a thing is Unity of Spirit and Mind And how precious is that Soul that seeks peace with self-denial God is near you who seeth all your Works and evil thoughts slay the Lord of Peace and grieves God exceedingly But that is the Child of his Love and Son of his Bosom that seeks not himself but can lay down his life for another O feel that Spirit and Life my dear Friends and wait for his appearance who is that Life in whom he comes with Power thy Peace shall be as a River that is clear and broad which shall not be dryed up but thou shalt drink into Eternal Rest and Quietness shall fill thy dwelling and the God of Peace and Holiness will delight in thee and in the end thy Fruit shall break out and thou shalt not long be hid but thy God in whom thou delightest shall cover thee with his Glory and make thee to shine in his Light and the Lamb shall speak out of his Temple and shall be confessed too but the self ended Spirit will wither and that which lifts up it self will fall to nothing and back-biters and whisperers and they which carry tales to make debate will God thrust away far from him and the meek shall enjoy his Inheritance alone who hath sought his praise from God and not from men Therefore take heed to your spirits in Gods fear and keep the Unity and Covenant of God and grieve not Gods Spirit nor provoke any to Wrath And again I warn you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ speak not evil nor think evil of Brother or Sister for if you do you cannot be guiltless before God nor stand before the Enemy in the time of tryal for evil thoughts will eat out your peace and precious Life and devour your strength with God and make way for many Evils to enter and prevail upon you Even the Lord God of Eternal Power preserve you all who hath called you