Selected quad for the lemma: grace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	salvation_n	teach_v	ungodliness_n	2,577	5	11.7800	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52034	The way of life revealed and the way of death discovered wherein is declared man's happy estate before the fall, his miserable estate in the fall, and the way of restauration out of the fall into the image of God again ... : also the by-pathes, crooked wayes, wiles, snares, and temptations of the enemy of man's soul discover'd ... the utter end and final destruction of all false professions prophesied ... : also a call in the tender bowels of the love of God shed abroad in this day, age, and generation to all the scatterrd sheep upon the barren mountains of profession to return to the true shepherd Christ Jesus ... / Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1674 (1674)	Wing M746; ESTC R26188	27,827	35

same came for a Witness to bear Witness of the Light that all through him might believe He was not that Light but was sent to bear Witness of that Light that was the true Light which lightneth every man that comes into the World c. And to this agrees the Testimony of Just Simeon who came by the Spirit into the Temple and took the Child Jesus into his Arms and said Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace according to thy Word for my Eyes have seen thy Salvation which thou hast prepared before the Face of all People a Light to lighten the Gentiles and the Glory of thy People Israel This is He of whom we Testifie whose Light is the VVay to Life And this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and men love Darkness rather then Light because their Deeds are Evil For every one mark that doth Evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved but he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his Deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Now this Light which the Servants of the Most High testified of is that which hath been spoken of and denominated under several Names For this Manifestation of God in man is sometimes called the Word the Spirit the Law the Grace of God now the VVord Light Grace Law Spirit are all one in Nature although diversly named Moses called it the Word and directed to this Word in the Heart and in the Mouth which Paul that illuminated Man rehearsing saith Say not in thy Heart mark Who shall ascend into Heaven that is to bring Christ down from above or who shall descend into the Deep that is to bring Christ up again from the Dead But what saith it The Word is nigh thee even in thy Mouth and in thy Heart that is the Word of Faith that we preach This is the sure Word of Prophecy unto which Peter directs to take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place until the Day dawn and the Day-star arise in the Heart c. This Light is the Law of the Spirit of Life where-with Paul was acquainted that warred in his Mind against the Law of Sin and Death which was in his Members This Light is the Law in the Heart and the Spirit in the inward parts the New Covenant of God Almighty This is that which converts the Soul which Law Paul delighted in according to the inward Man This Law is Light of which the Scriptures of Truth plentifully testifie This is that Grace that Paul declared brings Salvation which hath appeared to all men which Law Light Spirit Grace Gift hath in measures as God's Talents appeared unto all men which teacheth all that are lead taught and guided by it to deny all Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and not only so but also to live Soberly Godly and Righteously in this present Evil World This is that Grace which the Lord the Giver thereof said to Paul was sufficient for him to deliver him from the Temptation the Thorn in the Flesh of which the same Apostle said unto the Ephesians By Grace ye are saved c. And this is the Manifestation of the Spirit spoken of by Paul which is given to every man to profit withal And this is that good Spirit of the Lord given to Israel who rebelled against it as the old World did unto whom the Lord said My Spirit shall not alwayes strive with Man of which ●ord Law Light Grace and Spirit given to be the Leader and Guider of Mankind out of Sin Death and Darkness into which Man fell through disobeying the Righteous Law of God as is afore declared the holy Scriptures give clear and full Testimony as hath been demonstrated But now that which is ready to arise is an Objection in some whose Understandings are not opened whose searchings to comprehend and Inquiries after the Way of man's Salvation stand in that Wisdom that is from below and in the Will and Reason of Man degenerated from the Life of God which is VVhether the preaching up this Word Light Law Spirit and Grace of God manifest within hath not a Tendency to make Christ Jesus his Appearance in the Flesh his Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascension to be Invalid Unto which I answer Nay Forasmuch as no Persons ever did do or shall truly see discern know understand or enjoy the Benefit of Christ Jesus his Manifestation in the Flesh but as their Hearts were are or shall be opened and Understanding illuminated by the Light which is a Measure of the Divine Fulness that dwelt in him and is communicated to and placed in all Immortal Souls as the Universal Love of God extended in the Son of his Love to all the Families of the Earth as the Revealer and Discoverer of the VVill of him from whose Divine Fulness it comes and issueth forth it self universally for the Scripture thus witnesseth that No man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of a man which is in him even so the things of God knows no man but the Spirit of God The Hearts of the Jews not being seasoned with this Grace of God and ignorant of the Gift of God which is Eternal Life they neither discerned loved nor received Christ Jesus when manifested in that outward bodily Appearance but rejected him notwithstanding they professed Love Honour and Regard to the Prophets and were in Expectation of the Fulfilling their Prophecies of the Coming of the Messiah who in due time came and yet they did not receive him but instead thereof set themselves against him taking Counsel from time to time how they might slay him though in Words they profest an earnest waiting for him So in this Day Age and Generation there are many who by their words do profess they believe his Coming in the Flesh and his Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascension but yet having their Faith consisting in outward Notions and having no inward Experience of the End of his Coming nor of the Virtue of his Sufferings Death Resurrection c. they are Enemies in their Minds to his second Appearance and coming without Sin unto Salvation So there is a Necessity for all the Sons and Daughters of men to come to and obey this Divine Spiritual Principle which is placed in their Consciences by the Living Eternal God that thereby the Eye which hath been blinded through Disobedience by the God of the VVorld may be opened for until this in some measure be effected the Mystery of Godliness which is great can neither be seen nor understood and therefore Christ said finding the Woman of Samaria ignorant of himself who was and is that great Mystery and the Gift of the Father's Love If thou knowest the Gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee Give me to drink thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee Living Water The Travail in Spirit of

God they obtain'd it and not through meer Notions upon the Words of their Brethren the Prophets of which Victory through Faith and Obedience unto and in the eternal Spirit of Holiness they were made Partakers and thus was it that they came to put off the old Man which indeed is a Work and to put on the new Man which is a real Change Translation out of Satan's kingdom from under his power into the Kingdom of the dear Son of the living God and so to be under his Power But the Enemy of your Souls turn'd you from this free Grace of God which was that which stirred in you and wrought in you in your day of Tenderness by drawing your Minds up into an airy notional Profession of this Grace and that by it you were saved not considering that the immortal Souls of such lie in Bondage whose Faith stands in Notions and not in the Power of God or whose Faith is no other then a Belief of what is done for them without not coming experimentally to know the Work of God in themselves and the Obedience of Faith which purifies the Conscience and makes alive unto God And such was the soaring up into Imaginations of some called Gifted Men for the Ministry that they presumed to teach and hold forth the free Grace of God after such a manner as that the Understandings of many were confounded and thereby many were defiled and corrupted by admitting a Liberty unto the fleshly Nature and avoiding the Cross of Christ contrary to that holy Liberty which through the Operation of the Grace of God is known For though it is true that as the Apostle saith By Grace we are saved yet whosoever holds forth this Grace so as to creat a Belief in any that they are thereby saved from Condemnation whilst they are found Transgressors against that Righteous Law of God of which not one jot nor title passes away unfulfil'd in them that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit such I say divide not the Word of God aright but teach for Doctrine the Conceptions of their own Brains for it s not a bare Belief or Assent of the Mind to the Power of the Grace which can give Satisfaction to the immortal Soul or true Assurance of eternal Peace with God but there must be also a Conformity in the inward Man unto the Power thereof and so man comes to be created in Christ Jesus unto good works to be sanctified throughout both in Body Soul Spirit And indeed I have found that instead of preaching up Conformity to the Power of the Grace they have not only preached up free Grace which indeed is an Expression in it self proper enough to be held forth for that the Grace of God is freely extended unto all but also therewith they have preached up a Justification of sinful unsanctified Persons by Imputed Righteousness even in such a manner as many have from thence concluded themselves in a State of Salvation while Sin hath had its reign in their mortal Bodies which I cannot but testifie is as great an Error and as contrary to the Gospel-Ministration and the End for which Christ was manifest in the Flesh which was to save people from their Sins so as to live no longer therein as the Error of the Scribes and Pharisees was when they were seeking and believing Justification by the Works of the Law without the Righteousness of Faith And thus hath it been that many have turned the Grace of God into Wantonness or turned from the Grace of God into Wantonness so that in a little time how did many Professors grow light and vain and ran with the very Prophane into the same excess of Riot lifted up in the Flesh and so came to be much in Shew but little and light in the Ballance And here you Professors of all sorts that have gone from the spiritual Appearance of Christ Jesus within into a Profession of the Saints Conditions and Performances without the Leadings and Guidings of the same Spirit Power lost your Way and went out from your Guide which would have lead you up to the Substance Christ Jesus and thousands of ignorant people have been lead here through the cunning Sleights of men into an empty Profession and when the Manifestation of the Spirit of God which is given unto every man to profit withal hath stirred in the Heart and Soul to draw the Mind out of the Ways Spirit and Nature of the World then the transforming Enemy of Mankind has lain near to betray deceive by pointing directing people to run into this Profession or the other or take up this outward Performance or the other Shadow under the specious Pretences of the Ordinances of God and Christ And hereby the subtil Enemy that will admit of the peoples being in the outward Practice of outward things whilst that he can have his Place Seat and Throne in the Heart of mankind has lead thousands aside out of the straight Way of Salvation through his drawing them from the true inward Guide the Grace of God that brings Saivation that hath appeared unto all men into the outward Observation and here the Fear of thousands towards God is taught by the Precept of men who know not the Leadings and Guidings of the Spirit Power of God and so have heal'd the Hurt of the Daughter of Zion deceitfully and have daubed with the untemper'd Morter And now all you scatter'd Ones upon the barren Mountains of Professions give ear hear the Counsel and Call of the Lord Turn you Prodigals who have spent your Portions and lost much of your Sincerity and Tenderness and that secret Injoyment you had of the Lord inwardly years ago and who for a long season have endeavour'd to fill your Bellies with Husks and the Profession of the Saints Injoyments my Heart earns on you and for you are my Bowels turned my Soul is often bow'd down in the Sence of your Estates yea often my Heart is pained within me when I behold your Wanderings up and down from Mountain to Mountain seeking Rest and finding none but what is polluted and your Souls are lean for want of the Fatness of God's House and you have not the Injoyment of it my Soul is even many times distressed for you God that made Heaven Earth bears me record whom my Soul cryes unto even Night and Day to visit you with an Out stretched Arm Return return unto that which will shew you all that ever you have done and that will hasten you to the Father's House where Bread of Life is and no longer spend your Money protious Time Labour for that which is not Bread of Life but a Profession a Talk of Bread which cannot truly satisfie your Souls And now in the Name Authority and by the Motion of the Spirit of the Eternal God Behold I sound the Trumpet of the Lord God Almighty in your Ears Prepare prepare to meet the Lord Jehovah in the Valley of Decision and all you who have any Tenderness in your Hearts and Breathings inwardly after the Lord amongst all Professions of what Name or Denomination soever Come out come out of Babylon and be you separated touch not any longer the unclean that the Lord may receive you who stands ready to receive all that come in Truth and Righteousness unto him who now will mark all that mourn because of the Sins of the people which are great and the measure thereof filling up apace and the day time is hastening of the pouring out of the Vials of the unmixt Fury and Indignation of God who lives forever and ever And therefore stee flee for your Lives out of Sodom 's Nature and stick not in the Profession of things neither the one nor the other whilst the Ground of thy Profession did not or doth not spring from the immediate Work of God and daily Operation of his eternal Power in thy Heart but come down into pure Obedience to the pure still Voice of the Spirit and Gift of God in thy own Heart and Soul which will as thy inward Ear is attentive direct thee in the narrow Way of Life eternal in which thou shouldst walk So coming here you come to that which moved in the Hearts of many years since God-wards which was that which wrought many into the Tenderness before spoken of herein walk and be faithful and it will ●●ad to the Fountain of Blessedness from which it came and unto the Horn of God's Anointed and to Shiloh shall be the Gathering of Thensands through the Nations Tongues Languages and People and the Mountain of the Lord's House shall be exalted through this great Day of Tryal Tribulation and Anguish upon the top of all the Mountains So the Lord God Almighty by the Arm of Strength reach all Hearts that have any breathing panting Desires after him amongst all Professions and pull many as Brands out of the Fire So breathes my Soul who am a Travailer for the universal Visitation and Deliveraence of the Seed of Jacob and raised up to Prophesie of the things which come to pass and shall be fulfilled in their Time and Season Charles Marshall THE END