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	righteousness_n	sin_n	20,387	5	5.1345	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93265	A lamentation for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. With an invitation to have them turne in their minds to the true shepheard of the souls. Also something in discovery of the nakednesse of all professions who are found in the words without the life and power. / Written by one of the children of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martha Simmons.	Simmonds, Martha.	1655 (1655)	Wing S3791; Thomason E855_2; ESTC R207517	4,550	8

himselfe and to rip off all your deceitfull coverings and lay you open to the shame of the Heathen and this is the word that we witnesse to lead and guide and command us whose mindes are staid in it and this word moves us into your Idols temple and to other private meetings to discover your Image of mixture of severall opinions untill you stop our mouths and hale us forth and deliver us up to your Rulers who second you in your persecution who imprison us and scourge and stock and stone and despitefully use us and by the power of this word are we brought through these tribulations and have joy in the midst of them and when we are reviled we revile not againe taking patiently all that you have power in your wills to inflict upon us and we are made able to desire the Lord not today these things to your charge and that he would open your eyes that you might see what you are a doing and the 〈◊〉 would soon cease your rage and finde enough to doe within in your own hearts and by this word we see the Scriptures were given forth from this word and as we come into these severall conditions and measures that the Saints were in that spake forth this Declaration we can set to our seale that the Scriptures are true and they are ours that live in the life and not yours who despise the life and feed your selves with words and gather up to your selves great riches in that nature you eate greedily of the tree of knowledge and now if you could but get to eate of the tree of life you would soon be above God but that you cannot doe for there stands a flaming sword that turns every way to keep you out so that all that comes there comes through it and leaves all the first wisdome behinde and therefore if any of you be found worthy to come down to the measure of Christ and submit your necks to his yoak it will be good for you but not many rich nor many wise doe come to know these things and we have the Promise of this word that he will be with us unto the end of the world and we know that his Promise is yea and amen And now all people that hath sobriety and love to your souls come out from among these Idoll dumb Shepheards that feed themselves but not you and if you put not into their mouths they will soon shew violence to you come out from among them and be no longer partaker of their uncleannesse for they are broken cisterns that can no longer hold water and come into the fountaine that runs forth freely the streams whereof would refresh your hungry fainting soules in my fathers house there is bread enough Oh why will you perish for hunger minde the light the measure of Christ in you that with it you may see where you are that you may see his eternal love how he calls and invites you into the kingdome that he may take off your filthy garments that he may cloath you with the garment of righteousnesse and marry you unto himselfe and now the day of his mighty power is appeared and the fountaine of life set open to wash and cleanse you from your sinnes and baptize you into his death and sufferings Oh be not stubborn and stiffe-necked against him for we that doe follow him doe finde his paths pleasant pure and sweet and the further we follow him in the straight gate and narrow way we see that his love is past finding out And now in the tendernesse of my heart longing for your soules good am I made open to you having had a habitation in this City of London sometime for seven years together I wandered up and down the streets enquiring of those that had the Image of honestie in their countenance where I might finde an honest Minister for I saw my soul in death and that I was in the first nature and wandring from one Idolls temple to another and from one private meeting to another I heard a sound of words amongst them but no substance I could finde and the more I sought after them the more trouble came on me and finding none sensible of my condition I kept it in and kept all close within me and about the end of seven years hunting and finding no rest the Lord opened a little glimerings of light to me and quieted my spirit and then for about seven years more he kept me still from running after men and all this time I durst not meddle with any thing of God nor scarce take his name in my mouth because I knew him not it living wilde and wanton not knowing a crosse to my will I spent this time it something I found breathing in me groaning for deliverance crying out oh when shall I see the day of thy appearance about the end of the last seven years the Lord opened my eyes to see a measure of himselfe in me which when I saw I waited diligently in it and being faithfull to it I found this Light more and more increase which brought me into a day of trouble and through it and through a warefare and to the end of it and now hath given me a resting place with him and this is my beloved and this is my friend O daughters of Jerusalem And now all that have a desire to come this way must lay down your Crowns at the feet of Jesus for now a profession of words will no longer cover for the Lord is come to look for fruit all types and shaddowes is flying away and he that will come in may inherit substance and he that will not shall be left naked FINIS