Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	life_n	lord_n	power_n	8,674	5	4.5803	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48969	An exhortation given forth at the requirings of the Lord in tender love to all that have been in any measure turned unto truth, by the visitation of the Almighty, in his spiritual appearance, that they be faithful and obedient thereunto.	Lombe, Henry, d. 1695.	1694 (1694)	Wing L2845; ESTC R20184	5,143	7

AN EXHORTATION Given forth at the Requirings of the Lord in tender Love to all that have been in any Measure turned unto Truth by the Visitation of the Almighty in his Spiritual Appearance that they be faithful and Obedient thereunto My Friends Great has been and still is the Love and Mercy that the Lord God Eternal has Manifested unto the Children of Men in that whilest they are in a State of Disobedience Rebellion against his Holy Law in their Hearts which by Nature all Men and Women are as saith the Apostle Paul We are all by Nature Children of Wrath yet such is the Love of God that in this State he is extending his Grace and he is visiting of Mankind by his Light and Holy Spirit in order to turn them from their Evil Wayes to serve the Living and true God and to as many as truly obey his Call and turn unto him with their Hearts they come to partake of Salvation and Eternal Life by him And amongst the many others who in the day of Gods Visitation came to Believe in him that Visited the Lord was pleased to reach unto my Soul and to give me an understanding of my State and Condition whereby I came to know and Believe that it was the Lord that then called unto me to forsake my Sins and Evil Deeds and my heart was affected with his Goodness and I was made willing in some Measure to turn from my Inquity that displeased the Holy God and to forsake the vain Pleasures and delights of this Evil world and to suffer Afflictions and Reproach for his Names sake But this is that which is now Matter of Bitter Lamentation unto me when I consider thereof that after the Lord had thus been good and Gracious unto me the Enemy of all Mankind that always seeks to destroy the Work of God he was near unto me with his Temptations and Allurements and for want of keeping Low before the Lord and dwelling in the Sence of that Power that had reached unto me and began my Deliverance out of Bondage I was again intangled in the Snares of the Evil one and thereby Darkness came over again and Deadness and Dryness as to the Enjoyment of Gods Presence So that altho' I kept in a form and Profession of the Truth of God Yet then I wanted the Enjoyment of the Life and Power that would have saved me from Sin and kept me from Disobedience in Unity and fellowship with my Maker and in this deplorable state I remained many Years walking in a Way that was not acceptable to the Lord though as to the outward I was a Zealous for the form of Truth and exercised in diverse Services thereof as many others and was owned and esteemed as a Friend of Truth Yet I wanted Peace with the Lord and the joy of his Salvation Now such has been the Love of my God that he followed me with his Judgements and called unto me to return unto him from whom I was fallen and repent of my Iniquity and he would heal my Back-sliding would love me freely and at length through the tender Mercy of God who had long waited upon me to shew himself Gracious and merciful unto my Soul I was again brought down into a Consideration of my State and Condition and of my want of the Enjoyment of the presence of the Lord that had so Mercifully dealt by me at my first Convincement and the sence hereof became a Heavy Burthen upon my Spirit and the Lord raised up Secret Crys in my Soul Oh! that I might be delivered from my Sins that now Separated me from the enjoyment of true Peace and fellowship with my Maker for now I came to see my self in an undone State without the Lord did appear again to be my Helper notwithstanding I kept in the outward Profession of the Truth and was constant in Presenting my body before the Lord but it pleased the Lord after he had thus reached unto me and let me see my State to bring near his Righteous Judgements into my Heart and to condemn Sin in my Mortal Body whereby as I came to love his Judgements and to submit thereunto I was brought down into the Death unto that Life I had formerly lived in and the Terrors of the Lord I came to feel and Witness Revealed in me against that Nature that had disobeyed the Lord and which was not Subject unto his Holy Law neither indeed can it be and therefore it was to be Crucified and slain by the Sword of Gods Spirit and this was a day of great distress and Bitterness of Soul Oh! the Sorrow and horrour that I felt in my Soul for my Iniquity and then the Enemy he also was busy to keep his Possession in me finding the Lord at work to dispossess and cast him out of his Seat where he had Ruled and had the Dominion then he laboured to perswade me that there was no Mercy for me but that the Lord had wholly forsaken me and that was the Cause I was now in Trouble but after I had remained a little Season in this condition it pleased the God of all Mercy a little to appear and to afford me some Glimpses of his Love to bear up my head from sinking in the day of my Distress and although his Judgements were heavy upon me for my Sins yet this I came to witness in Judgement the Lord remembred Mercy as I was subject to him that Judged and gave up to answer him in the ways of his Judgements and in due time the Lord did manifest more more of his Mercy towards me and although I went forth Weeping bearing the Precious Seed yet there was a hope begotten in me that the time would come I should return again rejoycing and bring my Sheaf with me And now Glory and Praise be given unto the Lord my God for ever the day is now begun to appear unto me and in me which is a day of Gladness and of great joy even the day of my Souls Redemption and Salvation from under the Power of Darkness and out of the Regions and shadow of Death and to walk before the Lord in newness of Life and now I am come sensibly to witness that it is the Lord alone that is able to keep us and that we have daily need to wait upon the Lord for strength and Power and that we ought to be upon our Watch-Tower every day least the Enemy prevail again to draw us away from the Lord for he is a very subtile and busie Adversary to mans everlasting happiness but as we dwell in the Light his Snares and Temptations are made manifest and the Power is made known enjoyed that delivers out of the same and in the Sence thereof we are bound to praise the Name of the Lord our God who is the Keeper and Preserver of all those that put their Trust in Him And now my Friends the Lord having been graciously pleased thus to visit my