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	power_n	soul_n	8,115	5	4.8720	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28617	A testimony in that which separates between the pretious [sic] and the vile and is for the friends and brethren who love the Lord Lesus [sic] Christ in sincerity and truth.	Bolton, John, 1599-1679.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1677 (1677)	Wing B3510; ESTC R29046	10,164	14

A Testimony in that which separates between the pretious and the vile And is for the friends and brethren who love the lord Iesus Christ in sincerity and truth LEt it not seem as a strange thing to my friends and brethen that any thing of this nature should come forth from me for I have a testimony in my heart from the living God that it is in unfeigned love to the Everlasting Truth which we recieved in the beginning and am clear in this matter before the Lord who searcheth the heart and tryeth the Reines That I have been very often in fear least that pretious Truth of the living God that we received in the beginning with gladness of heart should by the subtilty of the Enemie if possible be made void which could never be who hath been very restless and hath left no means unattempted either for the overthrowing the truth and righteousness of God or the undermining of it that so the blessed Truth of God might not take place in the hearts of the sonns of men surely strong cryes have been put up to the Lord that the Enemie of the Soul might never be able to hinder or stop the breaking forth of the Gospel of Peace which hath again been published in our Age and our Eyes have beheld the glory thereof blessed be the name of God for ever To you my brethren that are so in the truth I can freely open my heart and declare the State of my mind to It is now about fiveteen or sixteen Months since the Lord called for this service and testimonie from me and there was in me a very great deal of backwardness to it and a fear in me least I should do hurt in this matter and still when I laid it by the Lord in some further appearance in his light calls for the testimony that he had made to appear within must be brought forth for his names sake and in this matter I have lingred long till almost as in the judgment of some now almost if not altogether to late yet as the mercies of the Lord have been very great to give many fatherly admonitions and yet to spare so not only now to accept but also as at the beginning to call for it in this my wittness for Gods pretious truth what ever my words are yet no touch of bitterness in my Spirit against any mans person but a true love to all that there may be a returning by them that have erred from the straight way to the pure path of life The testimony that God called for was that notwithstanding I had profest his name and suffered many things for bearing witness to the Gospel of Salvation Yet that which he now required was that I must leave my witness amongst my freinds and brethren for the everlasting and unchangeable truth of the pure God that whensoever the Lord should remove me out of this house of clay and take me more fully into the bosome of Eternal rest that this may signifie unto as many as shall come to read these few lines what is the ground and cause which I and all the faithfull brethren and friends have so deeply suffered for many in our own Country and some in forraigne parts Which suffering of his chosen ones although despised and persecuted in this Generation yet God hath a tender respect to and it will be more manifest in due time My truely beloved brethren and friends I have in the diligence of my soul weighed and considered as concerning that Truth which we received in the beginning which we have so earnestly contended for and that with so much hazard and danger even the loss of outward estate and liberty and the life of the natural man and whatsoever else may be dear unto us in this present world Yet not to use many words in this case but rather few and also plainness of speech because I find our cause our witness and testimony in this our generation to be very weighty and of exceeding g●eat concern in as much as it concerns the Truth of God in this world And although our tryalls and sufferings have been very great yet at this time they need not be reckoned up because the sufferings and hardships we have undergone for the Truth or in the present generation so are fresh in memory we yet feel the so art of them and what we may yet further undergo for the same cause we freely leave it to our God from whom our strength is and in weighing the thing before the Lord what it was at the first that so engaged us to suffer and what we received that made us in the patience and meekness to und●rgo what was laid on us by the Enemie this Answer arose from the Lord in my heart the truth as it is in Christ Jesus and in the word there was and is a soul satisfying fullness Then I considered further in my self how it was the Truth as it was in Jesus Christ and the word further was that which never changeth Now my dear friends and Brethren was it not so that in the beginning we did in Truth receive the truth as it is in Jesus Christ blessed be God you are not ignorant of it that we received the Truth in the love of it as it was in the Everlasting light of Gods power and the way thereof is known and a stranger to it cannot intermeddle with our Joy let his words be what ever they will and the Truth hath been further made known to us by the effects of it and therefore I shall speake a few words to you whom God hath called and raised up by his living power in the present generation to beare witness to his holy name it is not only fresh in my memory but I feel the vertue of it still blessed be the Lord God for ever how the Truth as it is in Jesus at the first more abundanly then ever we knew before opened our hearts to God and he by his living power hath kept them so that the Enemie with all the hard usage and grievous persecutions which we have undergone could never yet be able to stop the springs of life in us and did it not revive our very souls and it was indeed a true translation from death to life and so we came to know what the true Love of the brethren was surely it was so at that day we were mark that joyned to the Lord in the Covenant of light in which our fellowship with the father and the sonne is and one with another you that have kept your integrity to the living God and his pretious marke that unchangeable Truth how was it with us in the day when we gave up our names to the Lord to be his with what we were and had in this present world did not the Lord gain into himself a full consent with the whole mind to be Gods and not our own and to give up for his names sake All that was dear