Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	jesus_n	sin_n	spirit_n	7,619	5	5.1633	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42020	A call out of gross darkness and idolatry into the light to wak [sic], which is the way of life ... with a word of advice and information ... / by Richard Greenway.	Greenway, R. (Richard)	1662 (1662)	Wing G1863; ESTC R25470	20,414	17

always been of use in England and if the Apostle be so understood as that you are not to pray or prophecy with your head covered then were not many among you transgressors that pretended to pray and did not your Priest transgress●● in both praying and preaching with his Cap on but I beleive the Apostle had a higher meaning then that well people be not deceived the Lord will not be mocked with your showes nor likeness of drawing neer him with your bodys when your hearts are far of from him after your coveteousness and the satisfing of your lust it is not Reading not hearing the Saints words read over nor the keeping part of a day once a week that will give you exceptation with the Lord while you are in the evil state and nature untranslated out of the Kingdome of darkness unchainged in your nature unconverted and unturned from your works of sin and Iniquity which seperates between the Creature and the Lord the wicked and the ungodly he beholds a far off how neere soever they pretend to draw unto him And what though the man you call your Minister do call you as he did in my hearing the children of the most High what are you the better for that so long as in works you shew your selves to be the children of another Father for mark what Christ said to the Pharisees that had as large a profession as any of you and could boast as much of their Law Ordinances and Temple outward as you can and yet he told them they were of their father the Divel whose lusts they will do see Iohn 8. 44. and the Apostle saith His Servants you are whom you obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience 〈◊〉 righteousness but try a little this flattery of your hierling what can you be the Children of the most High and yet have cause as he said to 〈◊〉 to for being more vilde in your conversations then they which are called heathens mark freinds can a child of God which is one that is lead by his Spirit or can a Christian that is one that believeth in and is a follower of Christ or is Christ like that is a partaker of his Divine nature which is oure and cleane and yet I say can the Heathens by name and nature ●●tstrip you in an honester conversation and better life freinds it was meer deceit in him so to flatter and delude you and it was the Enemys policy in him to make you think better of your selves then you ought to do that so he may keep you always in his snare my spirit way greived and my very heart within me was troubled to stand to hear what manner of stuff your were sed with even meer chafe such as is good for nothing but for Swine ●o muzel ●pon it will never satifie the hungry ●oul that thirsts for Gods righteousness Wo is me for you this word is true upon you The Prophets prophecyfalsly and the ●riests bare rule by their means and the people love to have it so but ●hat will you do in the end thereof if the blind lead the blind and it continue so to be will not both fall into the ditch and pit of miserry out of which there will be no recovery therefore in time repent and though he told you you might look upon the good in the heathens and the bad in you'selves and b●●sh thereat yet he said you had a Law to be your guide which would shew you at all times what you ought to do saying if you are in the Church you have a Law to shew you how you ought to carry your selves there if at your ●●●ses at home you have a Law shews you how you ought to carry your selves there if in your Shops you have a Law shews you how you ought to carry your selves there in your trading and if alone you have a Law shews you how you ought to carry your selves before the Lord and this he aplyed to the Letter of Scripture But is that Law such a guide unto you and doth it shew you and lead you as he said let the witness of God in you judge I know it doth not neither can it so it is but a dead Letter and the Letter killeth it is the Spi●it giveth life there was a time when I heard men preach out of Scripture and to that time it was not a guide to me so to shew teach and direct me as he said to you but I erred very much in many things and the true guide which was able to save me out of sin I knew not till I was turned to the ●ight of Christ in me which is a measure of the Spirit and gift of God the good word of his grace which I have found alone able to convince me of ●●liver from and save me out of sin And freinds this is your guide and this is the Law of the Spirit of life ●hich is in and comes from Christ Jesus the light of the world who is 〈◊〉 true light that hath lighted every man that is come into the world which sets free from the Law of Sin and the Law of Death and what ever h● be that sets up any other thing for a rule and for a guide is a deceiver 〈◊〉 Anti-christ and no Minister of the true Christ And people such a one is he that perswads you to look for that in th● Scriptures which only is to be found in Jesus Christ the light of the world mark Christ's words to the Pharisees he said search the Scriptures in them you think to have Eternal life they are they which testifie o● me you will not come to me that you may have life and doth he no● bid you hearken to be taught of the letter to keep you in that state to te●● in the letter of Scripture without you from looking into Christ Jesus th● wisdome and power of God who is the life of men and is to be felt within in man let none mistake me I do not deny or slight the holy Scripture bu● I say they are a true declaration of the rule of life but they are not th● rule of life Christ Jesus is the rule of life the Scripture is a declaratio● of the way to life and peace but Christ Jesus is the way which leads out 〈◊〉 sin into well doing and so to peace the Scripture is a declaration of th● truth but Christ Jesus he that is the way he is the truth and be leads hi● people that follow him into the truth by which they are made free th● Scripture is a declaration of the everlasting word but Christ Jesus is th● word that lives and abides for ever And thus people in the fear of God having received the knowledge an● understanding of that which was the Saints rule and guide of old I canno● but in tender love to your souls shew you what it is and reprove that spirit that would set up any thing else in the roome of it