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	word_n	8,769	5	4.5336	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30906	Universal love considered and established upon its right foundation being a serious enquiry how far charity may and ought to be extended towards persons of different judgments in matters of religion and whose principles among the several sects of Christians do most naturally lead to that due moderation required ... / Robert Barclay.	Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690.	1677 (1677)	Wing B741; ESTC R22018	31,935	48

propagate their way in the strength of their own Spirits reckoning the Preaching and publishing thereof by their own natural or acquired parts without the necessity of the inward motion of the Holy Spirit both lawful and commendable and not only so but the advancing and establishing of the same by outward force and violence For here is Man working without God or the guidance of his Spirit in his own meer strength and will to set up his own Images and Inventions under a pretence of Truths and pure Christianity but those that dare not seek to advance even that which they are perswaded is Truth in their own will and spirit far less by outward force and violence but in and by God's Spirit as he leads and moves to it by his Life and Power shew that such are not a Sect nor Followers of Man's inventions but of Christ alone waiting to follow Him as He acts and moves them by his own Spirit and Power and therefore are no Sectarians but meer Christians The chief and first Principle then held by those Christians which as I observed before naturally ariseth and was assented to by them from their inward sense that tyed them together is that there is somewhat of God some Light some Grace some Power some measure of the Spirit some Divine Spiritual Heavenly substantial Life and Vertue in all Men which is a faithful Witness against all Unrighteousness and Ungodliness in the heart of Man and leads draws moves and inclines the mind of Man to Righteousness and seeks to leaven him as he gives way thereunto into the nature of it self whereby an inward thorow and real Redemption may be wrought in the hearts of all Men of whatsoever Nation Country or Kindred they be notwithstanding whatsoever outward knowledge or benefit they be by the Providence of God necessarily deprived of Because whatsoever they want of that yet such a measure of this Light Seed Life and Word is communicated to all as is sufficient truly to convert them from the evil of their ways purifie and cleanse them and consequently bring them to Salvation And in the affirming of this they do not at all exalt Self or Nature as do the Socinians in that they freely acknowledge that Man's Nature is defiled and corrupted and unable to help him or further him one step in order to Salvation judging nothing more needful then the full and perfect denying and mortification of Self in order thereunto Now do they believe this Seed Light and Grace to be any part of Man's Nature or any thing that properly and essentially is of Man but that it is a free Grace and gift of God freely given to all Men in order to bring them out of the fall and lead them to Life Eternal Neither do they suppose this Seed Word and Grace which is sufficient to lead to Salvation to be given to Men without Christ for they believe it to be the purchase and benefit of Christ's death who tasted Death for every Man So that they confess all to be derived to them in and by Christ the Mediator to whom they ascribe all yea they believe this Light Grace and Seed to be no other but a measure of that Life and Spirit that was in Christ Jesus which being in Him who is the Head in the fulness of it is from Him in whom it recideth as He is ascended up unto and glorified in the Heavens extended to all Men in order to redeem them from sin and convert them to God Thus according to this Principle without attributing any thing to Self or to the Nature of Man or claiming any thing without Christ the Universal Love of God to all Men is exhibited whereby the means of Salvation by Christ and reconciliation unto God is so asserted that no Man is altogether excluded from it but each so reached as puts him in a capacity to be saved Such then as believe and Preach this Doctrine must of necessity be esteemed great advancers and asserters of Universal Love as those that truly establish it not through any uncertainty or doubtfulness in themselves but upon their own firm and acknowledged principle since that doth necessarily extend their Charity to the not only supposing but even concluding Salvation possible not only to the several sorts of Christians but even to such who by the disadvantage of Education and the remoteness of their Habitation are ignorant of the Name of Christ providing that this Seed Grace Word and Light which is in them all and the free gift of God to them all receive place in their hearts so as to work out the fruits and nature of Unrighteousness and to beget them unto Righteousness Purity and Holiness which according to this Principle is believed to be very possible where the external knowledge is thus unavoidably wanting for albeit those who hold this Principle do believe that the outward knowledge of Christ and these other advantages which from the use of the Scriptures are enjoyed among Christians are very comfortable and conducing to facilitate Salvation yet they reckon them not absolutely needful holding them only to be integral and no essential parts of Christianity for they place the essence or being of Christianity only in the in the true and real Conversion of the heart by vertue of the operation of this Light Seed and Grace there even as the essence and being of a Man consists in the unity of soul and body which is enough to denominate one a Man albeit he should want a Leg or an Arm an Eye or an Ear or have some other defect or even should be destitute of some of the faculties of the mind as of the memory c. that other Men have yet such a one would still and that truly be called a Man albeit not a compleat and entire Man yea those that live in the most Barbarous and Unciviliz'd places of the World where they are destitute and ignorant of all the liberal Arts and Sciences used among us and of all these conveniences which so much conduce to the facilitating of Humane society and accomodating of Man-kind in their living together I say those are still truly accounted Men as having that which is truly essential or constitutive of a Man as such In like manner this Principle supposeth the possibility of Salvation both to those commonly called Heathens and to many among the dark and erroneous Sects of Christianity in that this essential part of Christianity is extended to them albeit they want those other Integrals and comfortable parts which may in and with respect to the Spiritual Man be fitly compared to these defects that those Barbarous Nations want which we enjoy as to the Natural Man as none can deny but this Principle is most agreeing to Universal Love So the practice of all even of those that deny it doth evidence and shew how agreeable it is as well to the Love of God as to right reason where when ever any of the Sects