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
A54041	The Jew outward being a glasse for the professors of this age : wherein if they read with meekness... such of them as have not overslipt the day of their visitation, may see their own spirits to their own everlasting advantage and comfort by learning subjection to that which hath power in it to destroy this evil spirit in them : containing some exceptions and arguments of the Jews against Christs appearance in that fleshly form of his in their dayes which the present professors may view and compare with their exceptions and arguments against his appearance in spirit in this age, that they may see and consider which of them are the more and the more weighty / by Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1174; ESTC R28792	26,555	33

your former faith ye have some kind of love gentleness and meekness yea but it is but a thing formed by the fleshly wisdome and reasoning but not natural from the living spring not such as ye once felt c. for the true and living eye being shut that which is then best or afterwards attained is held but in the dead part and serves but to feed death 4. The great work and design of the enemy of your Souls is not to steal away the bulk of your knowledg or to draw you from ordinances or duties but to steal the life out of your Spirits This I have experimented from my child-hood I might still have knowledg enough of any kind but that which I wanted was life and I was still sick under all the sorts of knowledge that ever I met with and under all ordinances and duties for want of life The Lord had given my soul a taste of true life whereby I became unsatisfied without it and no manner of knowledge or enjoyment could take me up by the way yea when through extremity I seemed willing to be content with any thing yet still my heart was sick after that one thing which alone could truly ease and satisfie it Now if the enemy can but prevail herein to blind the inward eye and steal away the life within he hath enough Then abound as much as thou wilt in knowledg in zeal in duties in ordinances in reading Scriptures praying meditating c. thou art the surer his hereby and so much the better servant to him for how much the richer thou art in knowledge experiences hopes and assurance without the life and power so much the more acceptable and honourable and useful art thou in his kingdome Therefore see where ye are Is the inward eye open in you do ye know the light within surely he that sees by a light within can hardly speak evil of it or hath the enemy by some of his artifices drawn a vail over that eye wherewith ye once saw in some measure O be not slight in a matter of so great weight O please not your selves with the eye of the perishing wisdome with deaths eye and with deaths knowledge of Scriptures and of the Son of God which speaks great words of the fame of true wisdome but is a stranger and enemy to the thing O life is pretious eternal life is pretious To have the word of God abiding in the heart and to feel the true light giving the true life who can set a value on this Ah do not loose your Souls for a trifle for a little such knowledge of Scriptures as the earthly part can gather This I cannot but exceedingly despise although the Scriptures I truly honour for their testimony of that whereby I live if ye see not the way of life by the inward light which alone can shew it ye loose your Souls If the God of the World hath blinded that eye in you what are all your treasures of wisdome and knowledg What are all your hopes and what will become of you All these sparks of your own kindling from Scripture will not secure you from the bed of sorrow O several sorts of professors why will ye dye with the uncircumcised why will ye go down into the pit among them that know not the Lord But what shall I say to this generation The spiritually-wise foreseeth the storm and hideth himself but the spiritually-foollish run on headily and are punished The cloudes have long been gathering but the sick eye cannot discern the signs and seasons of the times and so because judgment comes not as men expected they grow hard and wear off the the sense wherewith they were somewhat affected at the first threatning of it But assuredly both judgment and mercy hasten and they will come and will not tarry For the same Lord God Almighty which confounded the heathens Babel when their sins and vain confidence was ripe which they built to prevent any future floud For though they once had the true knowledg of God from an inward light Rom. 1.21 yet they soon left that not liking to retain God in their knowledge vers. 28. but running out into imaginations and so building a Babel whereby their foolish hearts became darkned to the light which God had made to shine in them which shewed what might be known of God unto them vers. 19. Yea the Lord God which overthrew the Jews Babel which they had built from their knowledg of the Laws and ordinances of Moses and the Scriptures written to them they running out into imaginations also whereby they likewise thought to prevent the overflowing scourge from coming near them Isa. 28.15 The same God will overthrow the Christians Babel which they have built from the Prophets and Apostles words by their own imaginations and conceivings in the high mindedness out of the fear whereby they think to escape the deluge of eternal wrath for their City also shall be thrown down with violence and shall be found no more at all Revel. 18.21 And the great work o● this day is to discover the rottenness of their wall and the untemperedness of the morter wherewith they have dawbed it He that readeth let him understand but the uncircumcised in heart and ears cannot THE END