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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

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78561	A tender salutation: or, loving epistle to such, who have a breathing in the innocent life of my friends with whom I walked in the outward observances. Also, for my relations (after the flesh) with all others professing God, and that have any breathings after the truth in the inward parts. Wherein something is declared in the power and light of God, concerning the sure foundation, and the house of God, with the inward glory, government, cloathing, feeding, non-superiority, and safety, that is in Gods habitation. With a word to the weak to establish them, that they faint not at the appearances of outward trouble for their consciences. - Whereunto is annexed a further discovery of God to my soul, concerning the spiritual temple, tabernacle and ark of Gods testimony, being the truth, life, and substance of the temple, tabernacle and ark of the testimony under the legal day. - To be read in the light, which discovers the things that be of God. -	Chandler, Jacob.	1664 (1664)	Wing C1927A; ESTC R227552	24,960	33

vail that is upon you that you might come forth from darknesse and walk more in the light of life A word to the Weak to establish and direct them that they faint nat at the sight of the outward Adversary in their Meetings AND Friends There is a desire risen in me that every one of you in particular may come so to be established on that sure foundation the everlasting Rock of Ages that you may not be so soon shaken away many of you from the confidence that you seem to have for God and Truth as you are perswaded I speak not this to reproach you but in the power of God to establish you Friends your 〈◊〉 going forth out of the power of God into the flesh is it that makes you faint in the day of adversity and in the face of your enemy Therefore Friends if you would be valiant for the truth mind the life of God in your souls reside and dwell in it and give up all unto it fix your mind steddy upon it and stay thereon and as thou comes to this O soul thou shalt be kept in peace and quiet off from the trouble and disquiet that the flesh raises up for God will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid upon him Friends it ill becomes those that fears the Lord to be of such a fearful frightful spirit as I have observed there is sometimes in your Meetings though it be but of suspition of an invasion by the enemy without Friends the desire in my soul is that you would mind the life the spirit in you and be still and quiet in the patience of the life and Lamb of God according to the measure in you and as you mind this and dwell in this your fears and terrors of the flesh will abate and your courage advance for the life of the pure God crucifies the flesh which leads to death The Spirit of God is a Spirit of love and of a sound mind it casts out such fear and it is not a Spirit of slavish fear so that my Friends if you be the sons and daughters of God why then you are led by the Spirit and not by the flesh which is fearful sinful c. And if you have the Spirit and live in the Spirit why then it has mortified the deeds of the flesh which are evil c. See Rom. 8.5 to the 17. verse They which are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh and they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit Slavish fear and cowardise for truth is of the flesh and to be fleshly and carnally minded is death to the soul but to be spiritually minded is life Oh Friends it has been a trouble to my spirit sometimes to see the distraction perturbation and trouble that many have entered into in their Meetings at a shallow c. Oh Friends labor to crucifie this old man with his fleshly meanbers and branches that springs forth into the visible life and what you have in the invisible life watch to have it strengthned and live in the measure you have attained of this invisible or inward life in your own particulars And if any further of the coming in of the visible enemy be into your Meetings in the discharging what you are perswaded to be your duty which is too probable and likely be still and quiet in your selves sweetly composed with your mind fixed upon God enjoying communion in the life and Spirit of God according to your particular measure keeping steddy in the beholdings of the life and be in the serious pursuit of it and do not suffer your thoughts and your minds to straggle in the least no not for a moment though the enemy provoke you be diligent in the watch that the enemy of your soul the invisible enemy break not in to overthrow your peace and communion with God and destroy your pursuit in the life and so your peace being lost your watch down and the enemy broke in then you enter into the flesh in the troubles fears tempests and disquiets which the life is freed from c. and so will be ready to say any thing do any thing so that you might be acquitted of the enemy without and released of a Prison and banishment for thy body which affrights many poor hearts who considers not the Prison the banishment and darknesse and trouble that their souls is in in the want of the light life Spirit peace and communion with God Oh Friends I say unto you all watch watch the life and go not from upon any terms be surely built on the sure foundation and you shall be able to say in the same life according to thy measure as David I am fixed I am fixed O God I am fixed O happy state here is the only safety And now unto the Lord once more I commit you that every one of you may so come to be established on that sure foundation the everlasting Rock of Ages and build so upon the power and life of God that Prisons Fines Persecutions the gates of hell even death it self may not prevail against you non affright you Amen Some further discovery of Gods house or habitation through the Spirit And according to my measure declaring of the spiritual Temple or Tabernacle and Ark of the Testimony the Truth Life and Substance of the Temple or Tabernacle and Ark of the Testimony under the Legal dispensation to be read in the light which manifesls the things that are of God FRiends The house and habitation of God is called the Temple or Tabernacle of God where God dwells walks moves c. and this was shewed by the Temple under the Law in which Temple or Tabernacle God was graciously present with his people in that day but now dwells no longer in Temples made with hands but in his people and children who are the Temple and hat itation of God through the Spirit Though my Friends some do imagine that the Legal Temple or Tabernacle is a figure holding forth to us the outward Ordinances viz. Preaching Praying Supper Water Baptism c. And some calls this a new Iemple state and 't is to be feared there do abide and look no further or very little higher than just to draw from it the outward observation but God hath revealed it otherwise to me and a necessity is laid upon me being called to it not to deny it In order to your understanding of this Consider I. That in the Legal Temple was the Ark of the Testament and this was the Ark of his presence Now this Ark figured forth the Lord Jesus in the Spirit which dwells in his people or particularly in a Saint this is the Ark of the New Testament Isa 42.6 Mal. 3.1 which also is called the New Covenant That Ark was Legal this is a Gospel-Ark that was an outward Ark this an inward Ark that was an Ark in a form this an Ark in the power that

will cloath you all with rich and soft cloathing for all his Family is arrayed with soft Rayment Oh every one that will be a Daughter of this King Jehovah Tzebaot the Lord of Hoast shall be all glorious within and shall be brought into the Palace of the King and the King shall greatly delight in her beauty for he is the Lord her God and she must worship him and that in Spirit and in truth I say my Friends God shall cloath and has in a measure cloathed all his children with soft and fine Rayment Are not they that wear soft Rayment in Kings houses yea my Friends they are Now this soft Rayment I declare of is the inward righteousnesse of the Lord Jesus which is the righteousnesse of all Gods Saints this is the cloathing of our house from heaven that every Saint groans for according to the measure of working here 's the putting on the Lord Jesus in Spirit power and truth and this is that righteousnesse that justifies the soul to God and is made acceptable to God and to the Lamb. Friends this Rayment I say is soft Rayment its meek still and quiet 't is all in the Spirit which Rayment in the sight of God is of great price of great value of great esteem Oh Friends There be many that have a covering but not of my Spirit saith the Lord. They have I say a covering something in imitation of this I declare of but it s too narrow then that the soul can wrap its self in it so that its nakednesse is seen by a spiritual discerning And therefore Friends all take heed lest you cover with such a covering insomuch that your shame appears I know there are some such abroad but they must stand or fall to their own Master for every mans works must be tryed and that by fire viz. the fire of the pure living God and if his works have not been wrought in God and sprung up from the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets whose foundation was Christ Jesus the chief Corner stone that bore up all their building and from which they restified that their works was wrought in God and had it not it must suffer losse Some think to shrow'd themselves under such a form and such a form and such an observation outwardly but it s not the form or observation outwardly that can hide any poor soul from the wrath of God and of the Lamb the which every soul is exposed to let them be shrowded where they will it s nothing but this covering to wit the inward righteousnesse of God and Christ investing the soul that hides from the wrath of the Lamb. This soft Rayment I declare unto you is that Rayment with which the Bride the Lambs wife makes her self ready withall and is so dressed therewith as a Bride is for her husband in the choice embraces of everlasting kindness and this Rayment every foul must have on to come to the Marriage-supper withall else it s an unwelcome guest though such as have it not on them may present themselves amongst the sons and daughters of God yet when the searcher of hearts the everlasting God shall make inquisition then they shall be discovered to be but intruders and though they held the form they did not hold the head by which all the members by joints and bands are knit together c. And though they had the semblance the vizard the shew of holinesse yet they denied the power the inward life of purity and righteousnesse and built on their form The Lord sayes to such what hast thou to do to take my Name into thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed for he that nameth the Name of the Lord must depart from iniquity in vain is it that thou namest the Name of the Lord in vain is the multitude of thy services the Lord will say and does now say Who hath required this at your hands in vain is your solemn Assemblies your Sabbaths your Fastings Thanksgivings Preaching Praying Supper Baptisme Alms Conference with a multitude more they are all an abomination to the Lord in the outward observation because thou hast not on this wedding garment this inward pure righteousnesse of the Lamb and therefore they are an abomination oh soul because performed and externally carried on out of the life acted and carry'd on by the same spirit that thou sinnest with sure this is a loathing to the pure holy God of life who rejoyces in truth in the inward parts from whence all without must spring and not to take up an imitation from the Apostles practice and to do such works as thou gatherest from the Scriptures the writings of those holy men out of that life that moved them to it and many things else which oh soul thou art ready to despise but do thou wait upon the Lord for the more clearer breaking in of his light and movings of his life in thy own soul and abide in his counsel and abide his reproof in thy soul and be still look not forth but mind thy watch within least the enemy of thy soul get an advantage against thee and cleave to his power which thou shalt feel spring up whereby thou shalt be able to overcome sin hell death wrath self condemnation the world and all evil and thou shalt mount up in the life of God and here shalt thou be cleathed with his righte ousnesse and hear his voyce and obey his Commandments in thy own particular whose Commands are not grievous to the Spirit but joyous so thou shalt have the light of life in thy own heart as the Apostles and servants of God had before the Apostasie which was by them spoke of 2 Thess 2. the which came upon the world in some few years after the Apostles but now in these latter dayes the light is dawned and the Lord has visited some with his tender mercies the day-spring from on high hath visited some and God is a renewing of that defaced image that Adam had in innocercy and that the Apostles had by which they acted and was led and guided into the wayes of purity and righteousnesse doing what they did without as they had a command from this innocent life in themselves with singlenesse of heart and great joy blessing praysing magnifying the Lord God of power and purity and this is that life that my soul in a measure feels and has communion with And my soul breaths to the everlasting pure life that thou maist have the same holy pure and innocent life that the Apostles and Servants of God had and now some in a measure have in which life thou shalt learn what is the living sense of the Scriptures and Writings of holy men and of those Ordinances that the Apostles in their days was by the life commanded to do the which thou maist also do or forbear as the same life commands thee though this the carnal and fleshly reason cannot bear but I may not speak to please