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	sin_n	spirit_n	19,754	5	5.4357	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95904	A few things of great weight offered to the consideration of all sober people, and to friends of truth more particularly, with relation to their early care and Christian endeavour to season the minds of their children while they are young, with the sense and savour of the spirit of truth / by Richard Vickris.	Vickris, Richard, d. 1700.	1697 (1697)	Wing V338; ESTC R42492	9,717	45

A FEW THINGS OF Great Weight OFFERED To the Consideration of all Sober People and to Friends of Truth more Particularly With Relation to their Early Care and Christian Endeavour to Season the Minds of their Children whilst they are Young with the Sense and Savour of the Spirit of Truth O Lord I know that the Way of Man is not in himself it is not in Man that walketh to direct his Steps Jer. 10.23 By Richard Vickris London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle next Door to the Meeting-House in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Bible in Leaden Hall-Street 1697. A few Things of great Weight c. THis Way of Man is the Way that God hath appointed him to Walk in and it is a High Way of Holiness and Happiness in God that is in his Divine Nature VVill and Spirit and is Opposed to the Low VVay of Sin and Imperfection that is in Man's self Respecting his Corrupt Fleshly VVill Mind and Spirit In each of these VVays there is a Law or Power the one of Spirit and Life the other of Sin and Death under this Law of Sin and Death all Men have been Concluded for as much as all have Sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God that is they have chosen their own VVay and followed the Thoughts and Devices of their own Hearts which hath proved to be a VVay of Folly and Misery and still continues so to be whatever otherwise Man may think in his Earthly Sensual VVisdom being in Captivity under the Law and Power of Sin and Death that Rules in him in this State many are whole and at ease in a Self-security having given up themselves to be Subjects to that Kingdom seeks not nor desires any other But there are others who having heard the Call of God are awakened to a sight and sense of their Condition and oftentimes Laments themselves and crys and seeks for a Deliverer and of these there is some hopes because a Deliverer is come out of Zion to turn away Ungodliness from Jacob that is from him that wrestleth for a Blessing This Deliverer is Christ the Lord of whose coming all the Holy Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles bore-witness who said The whole needs no Physician but those that are Sick I am not come to Call the Righteous but Sinners to Repentance Now this Deliverer to wit Christ is that Way of Man spoken of by the Prophet Jeremiah viz. That High Way of Holiness and Happiness in God Isa 35.8 which leads from the Earthly to the Heavenly from the Kingdom of Satan to his own Blessed Kingdom with his Father and this Way is his Divine Nature Manifested as a Law and Power of Spirit and Life in us Now though we are awakened to a sense of our Condition and groans and longs for Deliverance we cannot obtain it in our own Way and Will for the VVay of Man is not in himself it is not in Man that walketh to direct his Steps we must wait to feel our Deliverer to work in us and for us of his own good VVill and Pleasure Directing us by his Law and Inabling us by the Power of his Spirit to work out our Salvation with Fear and Trembling so that it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs but of God that sheweth Mercy we are Exhorted so to run that we may obtain according to the Apostles saying Though all run but one Receiveth the Price 1 Cor. 9.24 This one is the True Believer Personated in one viz. Christ his Head whose Hope Trust and Confidence is in his Helper and Deliverer it is written in Isaiah 28.16 Thus saith the Lord Behold I lay in Zion for a Foundation a Stone a Tried Stone a Precious Corner Stone a sure Foundation he that Believeth shall not make haste This sure Foundation precious Corner Stone is our Blessed Lord Christ happy are all they that come to him build upon him and abide with him that never fails Thus we may observe two ways known by their differing Powers and Natures the One Christ the Kingdom of God in our Minds the other Satan in our Fleshly VVills or Members the one Light the other Darkness the one High and Holy the other Low and Sensual Now all that have heard the Call of God and have believed therein and are awakened unto Righteousness that is have a Spiritual Sense and Feeling of God must come out of this low sensual VVay of Self and Self-working and instead of being led and acted by their own Natural Powers of Fleshly VVill and VVisdom in which Satan Builds they must come down to this sure Foundation viz. Christ in them and feel the Power of his Life to Lead and Act them that is they must incline their Minds Inwardly unto his Divine Word of Faith and Law of Spirit and Life in them which is Quick and Powerful c. and is a Discerner of the Thoughts and Intents of the Heart whereby their Souls were first quickened and made alive and Faith wrought in them by which Faith the Spiritual Senses of the Soul are Exercised towards God whereby they see him that is Invisible by which the Holy Ancients endured and did all those mighty things made mention of in the Author to the Hebrews Having an Eye to the Recompence of Reward and this Faith being thus wrought in them by the Operation of God must be daily kept to and in that they may know and witness a dividing betwixt Soul and Spirit betwixt the Soul and its old Natural and Sensual Power of working in its Fleshly VVill and Wisdom in which the Devil Rules and its New and Heavenly Power which it receives by Faith through the Impression of the Divine Nature of Christ therein which as the Soul comes to behold it will be Affected with its Beauty and keeping in the Love thereof will witness a being changed into its likeness from one Degree of Glory to another and so the old comes to be put off and the new Man put on which is Created after the Image of God in Righteousness and true Holiness these things are of great VVeight and Concern to all that are true Travellers towards God's Heavenly Kingdom of Rest and Peace to Experience in themselves for want whereof many have been held in sore Bondage and Captivity under hard Labour and Servitude many Years and have not been able to attain to what their Souls have long Desired and Travelled for viz. Spiritual Freedom and Deliverance from Sin and Death because they have not been Rightly Exercised in striving whilst out of the Faith which alone can give the Victory and without which 't is impossible to please God such instead of attaining to the divine Knowledge of the Truth have attained only to a Notion and Comprehension thereof in their Earthly Minds who have not waited to Receive it by Faith into a Spiritual renewed Mind and Heart which Faith is the Gift of God and is wrought by him through