Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	power_n	sin_n	sting_n	7,486	5	11.7460	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30545	A standard lifted up, and an ensigne held forth, to all nations shewing unto the whole world, and to all people to whom it shall come, by open proclamation, what the testimony of God is ... / ... Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing B6030; ESTC R12973	25,852	37

sake and because of being guided or not of being guided with the measure of Gods pure Spirit Therefore is man and his works good and accepted or evill and not regarded but condemned of God CHAP. XIX Concerning mans state in the first Adam before conversion and his state after conversion and what conversion is MAns state in the first Adam in transgression is a state of perfect enmity against God and death reigns in every man and he is possessed with blindnesse and ignorance and unbelief and is wholly imperfect to receive the things of Gods Kingdom or to act any thing for God acceptable to him man in that state is wholly dead to God and insensible of the presence and power and life of his Creator for he is drove from God and is not led by him he hath no power to perform any good in the sight of God but is possessed with evill and led into all evill continually hee is free from righteousnesse and free to all evill being the servant of the Devil and subject to him and overcome of him every moment and is led by him to transgresse against the Lord his heart is unclean and out of it proceeds continually uncleannesse in all manner of words thoughts and actions which floweth out of the corrupt fountain which grieveth and vexeth the Lord and his Spirit who is dishonoured daily by man through his abuse of Gods creatures who is a devourer and destroyer of them and not a preserver as he ought to be who abuseth them upon his lust and not to the glory of the Lord he loves the creature and worships the creature and is gone a whoring after the creatures and hath forgotten God that made him and all things and hath lost his own dominion wherein hee was set in his Creation and his state in his transgression is cursed of God and without the peace of God it being in the enmity against him and in all things he is wholly unprofitable to his Maker and onely profitable to himself and to the Devill and this in short is the state of every man in transgression before conversion but his state after conversion is a state more blessed for man is changed and renewed and translated by the power of the Lord through the working of the eternall Spirit through conversion his mind is changed and his heart is renewed the old is done away and a new heart is given and all things are become new even every word and work and every intent and purpose of his mind is converted into another end and guided by another spirit than before his conversion and man is again returned to God into the sense and feeling of his Maker and into covenant with him where he is blessed and all things to him for the reconciliation is made with God and the evill is judged and condemned and sin is taken away and blotted out and not remembred for man is become servant unto God and onely serves him in all things and not himself or any other creature in any thing for he hath received power to become Sonne to God and hath received power over the Devill and his temptations and death is destroyed and the effects of it are ceased and the sting of it is taken away and life and immortality is brought to light and man is made capable to act in all things for the glory of his Maker and God hath made Christ wisdome to him to rule him and guide him in all things and righteousnesse to cover him and justification to him to clear him in his sight and the new man is brought forth and the creating in Christ Jesus unto good works is known and the birth which is heir of Gods Kingdome is witnessed and unto this man is the Lord become an everlasting light and a sure hiding place for he is not the servant of sin but of righteousnesse nor an offence to God in any of his works but for his names sake is well pleased with him he is his teacher in all the waies of peace he is his helmet and his shield and his hope of salvation and his shepheard to feed him and preserve him at all times though he may be tempted yet he is not overcome for God is his strength though he may be tryed ye the is not forsaken of the Lord though he may be cast into the fire it is not to consume him for the Lord is with him all things he receives as from the hand of God all creatures he enjoyes in the Covenant with God and peace is in all his waies for it is the Lord that works in him both to will and to do of his own good pleasure and this is the state of the new man brought forth in conversion which is a turning of the creature from the power of Satan which rules in every man before conversion to the power of God which is the ruler of every man that is truly converted and this is the truth as it is in Jesus which I have received from God he that can receive it let him and if any have an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith this conversion of the creature is wrought by the Spirit of God through the Ministry sent of him and even for this cause have we received the Ministry of God through the holy Ghost that we might publish these things abroad that all people may come to the knowledge of them and may tast and handle and feel of the same word of life in themselves which will reveal the knowledge of these things to them that they may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son And now be it known to all the world and to all people in it that the Lord hath raised up a people and brought forth a seed to bear witnesse of his Name and of his dominion and power in all the earth and of these truths with many more which are but one in Christ Jesus hath God given us the perfect knowledge of even wrought them in us and revealed them to us by the eternall Spirit and as that same Spirit doth and shall move us do we and shall wee bear witnesse of these truths unto all people upon earth whatsoever both by doctrine and conversation holding forth the testimony unto others which we have received of God that Christ may be exalted and his Kingdome set up in the world and in comparison of this that we may serve God in our generation by bearing witnesse of these things which we have heard and seen nothing of this world our liberty our life nor any other thing whatsoever is not dear unto us yea even for this cause that the Name of the Lord may be testified of do we give up our selves continually to suffer all manner of evil in words or works and we love not our lives unto death that truth and righteousness may be exalted and this is the cause wherefore we passe through many

no circumcision but the circumcision of the heart which is the putting away of all the uncleanness of the flesh nor in it there is no means of salvation but Christ the onely way the truth and the life and none comes to the Father but by him he declares of the Father and there is no light but the light of the Lamb all that are saved shall walk in the light of the Lamb and there shall be no need of any other light no need of the light of the Sun nor of the Moon nor of a candle but the Lord is unto them an everlasting light and God alone is their glory and this Covenant is for ever and cannot alter nor change but is sure unto the seed of his own inheritance but he that is born of the flesh hath no part in it who is shut out from the knowledge of God who is not known to the wisdom of this World which is foolishnesse with God and the knowledge of God is received no other way but only by the revelation of Jesus Christ and by the working of the Spirit of the Father in the heart he opens the blind eye and unstops the deaf ear and changeth the heart and causeth it to understand and he removes that which hath stood in the way betwixt God and the creature which hath caused ignorance in the creature that the Lord could not be seen nor perceived Christ Jesus the second Adam lighteth every man and all mankind that cometh into the world with the true light but some hates the light and they will not come to the light least their deeds should be reproved and their deeds are evill and they are in a condemned estate and such cannot receive Christ nor the knowledge of God but such who love the light with which Christ hath enlightened them they bring all their deeds to the light and walks in the light and their deeds are wrought in God never to be condemned and such as loves the light receives Christ and the knowledge of God which is eternall life and none comes to the knowledge of God and of Christ any other way but through the light of Christ and by the operation of the Spirit of God and evill is condemned out of the heart and the heart is made clean by the word of God and the knowledge of God is received into the clean heart and nor into the impure for without holinesse none shall see God nor ever come to the knowledge of him neither can the knowledge of God be received by the traditions of men or any outward observance in the will of man but only by the teachings of the eternal Spirit is the living God known in the creature CHAP. XVII Concerning Faith this testimony I give unto the World FAith is the gift of God and by it Christ is received and enjoyed it is the substance of things hoped for and the very evidence of things not seen gives the creature to believe God in all what he hath promised all that which is acted and spoken in it is well pleasing unto God and that which is done without sinne it is the strength of the creature to act for God in all things it is that whereby the world is overcome and all the powers of hell and death it is the armour against the Devill and the defence of all the children of God by it they overcome all their enemies and through it they reign over all the world it carries through all sufferings and tribulations with joy and patience Faith is an act of God in the creature through it peace and righteousnesse and the crown of life is received from God by Faith all things are received that are received of God by any of his children He that hath Faith sees and feels the Lords presence at all times and through Faith we do and suffer gladly for the name of Christ in all things and this is thus far our testimony given by the Spirit of the Father of these things of which we have received the knowledge from God who hath given us his treasure and we have this treasure in earthen vessells even the knowledge of these things which are eternall which is not our own but the Lords to give forth according to his movings and of those rhings have we handled tasted and felt CHAP. XVIII Concerning what works are accepted of God and what works are not accepted brought forth by the Creature WHatsoever work man is moved and led unto by the Spirit of God and guided and ruled in the practice of to speak or act whatsoever by the same Spirit which moveth and leadeth into all the works of righteousnesse and not into any evill this is acceptable in the sight of the Lord and these works are well pleasing to him where the Lord goes before and is the leader in all things and this man and his works who is led with the Spirit of the Father is justified and accepted of God and not for the creatures sake who respects not the person of any but for his own Name sake because they are wrought in him through faith and is moved unto and guided in by his own Spirit and they arise from Gods righteousness revealed in the creature and not from the righteousness of the creature for man being changed and replanted into the living Vine and the root being good every work which springeth forth from it is good also and accepted of God because the root is so But whatsoever works are brought forth by any creature though the same in appearance which are accepted of God from another yet not being moved unto nor guided in by the Spirit of the Father but brought forth in the will and wisdom of the creature which is from below and acted in imitation from the Saints words these works are not accepted and well pleasing unto God but is offence unto him and sin against him even the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination unto him and if a man come before the Lord with thousands of Rams and ten thousand of Rivers of Oyl and if he give the fruit of his body for the sin of the soul and cover the Altar with tears and is not led with a measure of Gods Spirit none of all these works are accepted nor his preaching praying baptism nor breaking of bread nor any other observances towards God whatsoever are not good in his sight but evill and to be contemnted and the root from whence they spring because man is in the enmity against him and not changed out of the old root nor in that state is not led with the holy Spirit of the Father and the root being bad the branches are evill and none are accepted of God in any thing which they perform towards him but such as are in Christ Jesus the second Adam and such are new creatures so that it is not for the creatures sake that any work is accepted of or offence against God but onely for his Name