Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	flesh_n	life_n	spirit_n	9,701	5	5.4408	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54069	To all such as complain that they want power, not applying themselves to yeild [sic] subjection to what of God is made manifest in them, upon a pretence of waiting for power so to do	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1661 (1661)	Wing P1209; ESTC R22405	15,125	18

condition required the manifest appearance of a very great power to help me and so when sin overcame me I did only mourn over it crying after and waiting for power but was kept from joyning with and cleaving 〈◊〉 that wherein the power springs up and manifests it self according to its own pleasure quite contrary to the way of man's expectation The operations of the Power are divers and gradual according to the condition and necessity of the soul whom it visits and reacheth forth its hand unto 1. There is a discovery of the darkness and of the erring of the heart from God This is power for this should never be in any heart could all the powers of darkness there withstand it 2. There is a rising of the heart against the evil with a desire of deliverance from it and of the springing up of the good in such power as might conquer it This is a further appearance of power than the former and a good beginning towards believing or joyning with the redeeming Arm which all the Powers of darkness with all manuer of subtilty endeavour to divert the heart form 3. There is an upright frame of sirit begotten and a truth of heart formed towards the Lord from which desires and cries and groanes after his life and presence and for deliverance from the enemy and from under the power of his deceit spring more and more 4. There is a fear begotten in the heart of being deceived by the enemy of being drawn from the feeling of and panting after the Life and Power of God 5. There is an hope and trust in the Lord's Goodness and Mercy with a daily waiting for his appearance for the manifestation of his Spirit and pure Presence and for the springings up of his frsh Life and precious Vertue 6. There are overturnings of the enemy battering down his strong holds breaking of many snares beating back of many furious assaults and causing the plant of Life to grow up and Triumph over all the powers of darkness 7. There are secret stayings and upholdings of the heart in the hour of darkness when God sees necessary to let forth the power thereof upon the Soul and to Eclipse his own Power when the enemy buffets tempts prevails and gets ground upon the Soul is drawing it back under the vail even into the Pit and nothing appears near to stop it or Rescue the Soul from death and from the power of the Grave but the sting thereof enters and deeply wounds the Soul yet even then the power is near secretly upholding preserving and watching over the Soul and waiting for the proper season of Deliverance Nevertheless I am continually with thee thou ha●t holden me by my right hand said David when his feet had almost slipped into the grievous snare of desperate unbelief and murmuring against God's dealings with him and the rest of his people Many more operations of the Power might be mentioned even of its tabernacling and glorious appearing in some vessels in various wayes both delighting it self in the heart and also filling the heart with delight and joy in the pure Life but these things are better enjoyed and sweetly felt in the silence of the fleshly part then spoken of to that ear which is not fit to hear the sound thereof 2dly The way of the Powers springing up in the Heart which is 1. In its turning from the Darkness in the Faith and in the pure Obedience which flowes from the faith For us the Soul turns from the power of darkness and death towards the living Power towards the power of the Eternal Spirit of Light so the Power meets it embraces it appears to it and manifests it self in it proportionable to its present capacity and condition And as the soul being touched with the living Vertue gives it self up to believe to trust the power which draws so the power manifests it self in the heart according to the proportion of the faith which the Eternal Vertue hath begotten there And as the soul in the faith gives it self up to obey so the power appears works the obedience For we can do nothing of our selves but being called being drawn being required to do that which is far beyond our strength and giving up thereto the Life springs the Power appears which does the work This the Philippians had experience of to whom the Apostle gave that exhortation Work out your own Salvation with fear and trembling for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure It is the unbeliever hangs back and cries where shall I have power But the faith follows the moving and drawing of the spirit and the Power never fails the Faith But that which cries how shall I get out of Egypt which way shall I ever be able to pass through this intricate wilderness how shall I overcome those mighty Enemies which already have the possession of the Land I should inherit and 〈◊〉 strongly senced in it and mighty in strength to keep their hold therof This is not the right Seed this is not the true Israel for whom the everlasting inheritance of the life and of the pure Power is prepared 2. Under the Cross under the yoak to the corrupt yea and to the very natural the power springs The false birth would have the power spring in a way pleasing to it self at the time its Wisdom sees necessary and in the way its Will would have it but the power springs up according to its own wisdom at its own time and after its own way When the man would have it then it flyes from him and when it is not expected nor perhap● desired at least in that way wherein it chuies to appear then it springs up and puts forth it self Most men that have felt any thing of God cannot but desire his Life and Power But most fly the Cross wherein it hath chosen to appear and so they can never meet with but are still complaining for the want of it In the power is the ease the rest of the Gospel Take my Yoak upon you and learn of me saith Christ and ye shall find the rest which flowes from the Power This made Paul rejoyce in the Cross of Christ whereby the fleshly lusts were brought down in him and the Life and Eternal Power sprang in the Seed of the Kingdom For under the Cross the seed grows up and flourishes and the flesh withers and dies And as the power of flesh and death wasts so the Power of Spirit and Life Increases 3. The power springs under the fear and in the uprightness and love which God hath begotten I put these together for there is a close unitie between them The fear is the dwelling of the upright heart and the love is within the fear He that distrusts himself feels his own nothingness finds no power to do any thing God requireth and yet also fears to stay behind the light of God's Spirit in any thing it