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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	eternal_a	life_n	spirit_n	6,496	5	5.0614	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35136	Truth's principles: or, Those things about doctrine and worship, which are most surely believed and received amongst the people of God, called Quakers viz. concerning the man Christ, his sufferings, death, resurrection, faith in his blood, the imputation of his righteousness, sanctification, justification &c. Written, to stop the mouth of clamour, and to inform all who desire to know the truth as it is in Jesus; by the servant of the Lord, John Crook. To which is added, somewhat concerning the difference between the perswasions of reason, and the perswasions of faith.	Crook, John, 1617-1699.; Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing C7217; ESTC R204876	16,180	24

Reason because Faith is of an higher Principle and of a deeper nature and ground than Man's Reason is But this because it appears not in Man's sphear but rather out of it and is contrary to the line and reach of his wisdom is accounted by him foolishness and madness Thus is the Wisdom of God and the Children thereof judged and condemned by Man in his day And how can it be otherwise How can the wisdom of Man but judge that as foolishness whose beauty and excellency is hid from its eye But this is because the wisdom of Man is out of its place not subjected to the Wisdom of God but exalted above it therefore as a curse unto it is it suffered to lift up it self in its conceitedness against and so to persecute the pure Wisdom of God and the births thereof that it might fall and be broken and snared and taken and its day deservedly come to an end and be shut up in the shadows and chambers of eternal darkness But what ear of Man can hear this Surely none that is whole in the line of Man's wisdom reason and understanding but that alone which is bruised broken and in some measure dashed to pieces by the inroads of a diviner Life and Nature This in the leadings of that Life which hath broken it and in the shinings of the Light Eternal upon it and into it may be enabled to take up the Cross to the natural part and to die that Death with Christ which preserves from the second Death with the misery thereof Happy is he who knows and hearkens to the Perswasions of God's Spirit who is born of God and taught to wait upon him and worship him in Spirit who receives his Religion from the Light of Faith into the renewed Nature and Mind and not from the Reason of Man into the natural understanding which is easily corrupted and cannot be kept pure but alone by the indwelling of the Principle of Eternal Life in it For though such may suffer very deeply in this world from the men of this world as the Subjects and Servants to the Principle of Life have done in all Ages and Generations yet their Principle will bear them out in which God will appear to strengthen and refresh their spirits and carry them up above all their Sufferings in the Patience Meekness and Faith of the Lamb. And keeping to their Principle they cannot be overcome but must either live or die Conquerors according to the Will and good Pleasure of Him who ordereth and disposeth of all things well and bringeth good out of every evil in despight of all the powers of darkness And he that overcometh whether by life or death in the Lamb's Spirit shall wear the Lamb's Crown and sit down in that perfect Rest in the Kingdom of the Father which will give the hearts of all his Children full Satisfaction In which assured hope Life stirring in our bosoms and quickning our hearts with Love unto our God and Zeal for his Truth we can freely give up all that is near and dear unto us in this world and lay down our heads in inward Peace in the midst of the greatest outward Persecution and Trouble Even so O Lord thy Will be done concerning this Generation of thy People whom thou hast begotten to thy self and brought forth by thy mighty Power to testifie to thy Truth in this present day Dispose of them as it pleaseth Thee and let not their Faith in Thee nor thy Faithfulness to Them fail but let them be a Praise to thy Name throughout all Generations and tendred by Thee as the First-fruits of thine Appearance in the glorious Light of the everlasting Day after this great long thick and dark night of Apostacy from the Life and Spirit of the Apostles which hath so long eclipsed and covered the brightness of thy Beauty from the sight of the Earth Isaac Penington

who they are that minister and speak in their own wills above the Cross of Christ which the Apostle was careful always to be in subjection to lest he should make it void by speaking the words which man's wisdom teacheth and therefore as the Saints did so we do believe and therefore we speak and such Preaching and Speaking in faith as well as Praying in faith is acceptable unto God as his Worship and not otherwise And we further believe by the same spirit That the sum of all Religion according to truth and the signification of the word Religion is Man not at liberty in his will but bound again unto God by his having given to him by the light of Christ within the true sight and knowledge of himself as in himself as lost and undone for ever and from this sight a true sence to arise upon and remain with him from whence spring unutterable groans and crys unto God under the weight of the burden and wretchedness by reason of the body of sin and death and then when there was none to help or pitty in this state then is Mercy shewed in Christ the Arm of God which is revealed as an help neither seen nor known where how or when to come at it or meet with it And this begets in the heart of that man and woman in and unto whom it is thus revealed thanks and praises unto God for this gift and revelation of his Son in this needful time whom the soul sees to be the gift of eternal Love And we believe and know upon this love and faithfulness of God is founded built and established the everlasting Covenant whereby not onely all men may be saved for its ability but some shall be saved because of its prevalency which is not like to the Covenant which he made with our Fathers And although all mankind is not saved yet it is not because either of insufficiency in this Covenant or because of the weakness of the grace that appeares in and unto all men but because of man's will loving death and choosing his own delusions whereby his destruction is of himself and God clear of his blood in the free tender of his grace gift and striving of his Spirit within him For we know assuredly according to the Scriptures of Truth and experience of all souls that ever were truly converted to God that though by Grace man is saved not of himself but by the free gift yet as the old world did and those rebellious Jews spoken of Acts 7. who as did their Fathers so did they alwayes resist the holy Ghost so do men now And yet in the tender of this grace and striving of his Spirit the Lord is a God so hiding himself in the management of this striving and ministration of his spirit as if it wholly depended upon man's choice and consenting that man's will as to him is as it were free in rejecting or accepting Life and death being set before him whereby in the wisdom of God the propensity of his Nature as it came out of the hands of his Maker hath an advantage by this dealing of God to put forth it self so that man is as free in the choice as he is in the refusal of the tender of mercy and help and that with an equal indifferency as it appears to him in this state notwithstanding afterwards in the further growth in this grace and knowledge of Christ he sees clearly and convincingly that the Grace that wrought hiddenly from his sight and knowledge in the first working tender and ministration of God towards him gained his consent through its own prevalency in the Love of God by which sight and sence self comes to be abhorred and the free Love so admired that he knows from first to last all was of Grace and that free that self is not able to challenge any thing as due from what it had done but all of gift and yet as before with such an equal indifferency on man's account so that God may and will appear to be just both in condemning and saving and the Justifier freely of all that believe in Jesus the Light of the World Therefore let all take heed how they dislike this Ministration of God and striving of his Spirit in their hearts and consciences under colour and pretence of its insufficiency and therfore they will not come to him because his drawings and strivings are not so strong as they would have them to be looking for such an overpowering and irresistiblness as they are not able to withstand and gainsay lest such perish through a wilful neglect for want of stretching out their hand when the Lord holds out his and so they perish in the ditch with a vain expectation of further power or cry in their mouths Lord have mercy on us and so with the sluggard while they cry yet a little more slumber and folding of the hands to sleep their Garden is overgrown with weeds and their backs clothed with rags and they beg in harvest whilst others that have sown in tears not fainting do in due time reap in joy and not despising the crums that fell from the table nor the day of small things witness the presence of their Beloved come down into his Garden and walking among the Lillies Let these things be truly considered pondred and weighed in the true ballance of Light and Righteousness lest any soul perish through the false weight and measure so shall my soul rejoyce that any have escaped the Net of the Fowler through the discovery of the true Light and God have all the glory unto whom alone it belongs and man ashamed confounded his mouth stopped and he laid in the dust for ever and then shall my end be answered in writing these things THE END Concerning Perswasions in Matters of Religion THere is the Natural man and the Spiritual man and there are the Perswasions of each in and about matters of Religion There is the Perswasion of Reason and the Perswasion of Faith The Perswasion of Reason is that belief which man receives into his mind or heart from the exercise of the Reasoning Faculty and this Perswasion in Matters of Religion is but Man's Opinion or Judgement which how certain or infallible soever it appear to him yet may be shaken by a demonstration or evidence of an higher kind and nature The Perswasion of Faith is that Belief which the New-Creature receives into the renewed mind from the Evidence and Demonstration of the Spirit which openeth and manifesteth the things of the Spirit unto that mind which is begotten and renewed by it And this Perswasion is certain and infallible however it may be struck at and battered by the reasonings of the wise earthly part even in that very man whose heart is thus perswaded by the Light of the Spirit of God concerning the things of God's Kingdom Now the lowest Perswasion of Faith is higher and of a more noble nature than the highest Perswasion of