Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	wonder_v	work_n	work_v	18	3	6.5837	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06600	The saint's travel to the land of Canaan. Wherein is discovered several false rests below the spiritual coming of Christ in the saints. Together with a brief discourse of what the coming of Christ in the spirit is; who is the alone rest and center of spirits. / By R. Wilkinson. A member of the army.	Wilkinson, R. member of the army.	1650 (1650)	Wing W2252; ESTC R234118	100,792	162

something below himself or for the which the Creature hath been labouring all his dayes and at last having attained so much as now he Rests with the Church of Laodicea in a conceited happinesse When God comes to butn down this house the soule hath been all his dayes building though upon it may be a false foundation he layes the Creature and his worke in the dust so as now the soul is stripr naked of all his conceited holinesse or righteousnesse and happinesse upon which sight the creature is wrought into an amazment and astonishment of spirit wondring what God is a doing with him in this sad condition which works death and sorrow and the grave and nothing but discontentednesse before and a labouring to stand and not to part with the same untill he be forced to it by an unresistible power the soule before is crying What must I be stript naked of all What is all my praying fasting mourning and the like all taken from me so as now I have nothing to Rest upon Must I part with all Oh especially this creatures riches is hard to part with as it was with the young man who wanted all things in the want of one thing who notwithstanding had enough of the World and I feare too much of this wee are speaking of for he was nigh the Kingdome of heaven yet to part with all for a Christ Oh how loth he was Oh this parting with all goes hard makes many sorrowfull either in respect of outward or inward riches It is most commonly this inward riches which is the life of most professors in our dayes untill God unbottome them of their professions and forms and self-doings and fulnesse and the most that are destroyed in our Land I feare are in this particular when poor creatures are so glued to themselves or formes or their own righteousnesse and self-riches that indeed they live upon the same and make a life out of it and a God upon it and so dwell as though they were in heaven when indeed they are neither in the way to it nor possessed with it But if ever God appear either to them or in them God will unveile them so as indeed though they have bin professors never so long and in the same are become rich in their own eyes and in the eyes of others yet I beleeve God will burne it up and bring them to a losse and make their high and lofty spirits lye in the dust as he hath done with many in their condition I look that the greatest losers in our dayes shall be the longest and tallest professors though their losing it may for the future tend to their greatest gaine yea Englands professors shall ere long cry out of their inward losses more then their outward losses and they shall be stript more naked in matter of spirituals then ever they were of temporals though in the losse of both it may be accompained with little freedome but rather unwillingnes at present and repinings of spirit though at the last they may be delivered from their straits and be cloathed with the Sun and then shall trample the Moon under their feet I doe not speak of professors in reference to any particular faction but I speak of all under what denomination or title soever that are professing God before they be possessed with him who are storing up inward riches but not of the Spirit and Rest upon it as though it were of God which when God makes it manifest by the day according to that Scripture 1 Cor. 3. 3. c. it burns and is consumed either because it was not of God or else because it was Rested upon below God So that now to be brought out of the Creature and all its own fulnesse or self actings are so contrary to it and so for the annihilating of it so that indeed man in and of himselfe will oppose God stand out against this work of annihilation to have a Creature who before was rich in and of himselfe or from some administration of God below the enjoyment of God in the same and according to which and for the want of which the Creature makes his habitation below Heaven though he lives as an Angell yet as miserable as any devil in reference to his want of God in a way of enjoyment it being thus with a poor heart that to part with his false Rest is so hard and difficult How then comes the soul to see them to be false in reference to his Resting upon them though they may be true as they are an administration of God I say how comes the soule to see them to be false and so either willing to have them either dissolved if they be administrations of God or burned and consumed if they be of the Creature In answer to this we will say both waies in Scripture and experience And First God makes them known to the Creature and him willing at last to part with them by discovering unto him the emptinesse of these dispensations wherin he is made to see the non-satisfaction and un-safenesse thereof if continued in by the Creature as thus either by discovering unto a soule the want of his presence in it wherein it appears to be truly empty or else by frustrating the Creatures expectation in the not enjoying that from these things but in conceit which it did expect to finde in them and receive from them and herein God hedges up the souls waies with thornes so that now it cannot find that comfort and refreshment in those things which formerly it rested upon and drew comfort from now God making them empty and vain to the heart it is forced to cry out as Solomon of the vanity thereof and to say with them in the 24. of Isa 16. verse Our leannesse our leannesse so as now he is made willing to submit to the burnings up of his expectation by seeing the vanity of his conceptions in them Secondly By representing to the understanding a more excellent Rest and center for his spirit both sure and safe this begets a breathing after the enjoyment of that Rest which it is made to see without it not as yet enjoyed by it Isa 11. 10. 13. 16. 28. 8. this same makes the soule willing to forgoe the one that he may enjoy the other For as Canaan was discovered to the Children of Israel to be more excellent and glorious then that place of Aegypt was wherein they were in bondage which made them at their departure from it to be willing to part with the Garlick and flesh-pots so it is with a soule in this case the more the glorious Rest of Christ is represented to any soule the more it doth discover false Rests and the more it doth unbottome every Creature thereof Thirdly They are discovered too and unbottomed off these Rests by the departure of God from any administration so as the soule desires not to Rest where God is departed for if it hath been