Selected quad for the lemma: heart_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	faith_n	pure_a	purify_v	2,905	5	11.3265	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52696	How sin is strengthened, and how it is overcome	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1665 (1665)	Wing N288; ESTC R32154	10,171	13

workings motions and ends their ground and off-spring whence they co●e and whither they return that thereby the Creature may know who it is that exercises his mind and members and to what spirit he yeilds himself in his obedience and service and so may come to know the use and end of all his works what to chuse and what to refuse what to justifie and what to condemn in its first motion before it be brought forth or formed in the womb that judgment may be kept on the head of transgression and liberty proclaimed to the just And for want of faith and feeling of this Way of Christ it is that so many perish in sin and yet seem to strive against sin even because they cannot believe that to be sufficient to save from sin which manifests sin in the ground and condemns it in its first motion which if they did but in faith joyn with him to condemn sin in the ground temptation and motion it would die and wither and not be able long to live or prevail and if it for a time should prevail in the members yet not to comdemnation for I have found a great difference between sin condemned in the Creature though not yet wholly dead and sin lived in and pleaded for for if thy life and judgment be in that alone which condemns sin then art thou dead to sin and alive to Christ and it is no more thou that sins but sin that yet remains in thee to which thou art dead to which thou dost not consent like nor approve of nor any way add any strength thereto but thy faith and love delight and strength is in him which condemns it he that truly is in this faith and love by the working thereof shall all his Enemies perish and by that Faith and Love shall the just live in that Creature and he in him condemning and killing sin till it all be done away and the Creature of God found alive in him alone who without spot will present him to the Father for this I have found that that which manifests sin in its first motion judges it there and condemns it there hath the only power to kill sin ere it be committed and so hath only power to save from condemnation for this you shall find that as Christ doth not live to Justification where he is not believed and justified loved followed and confessed so sin doth not live to condemnation where it is hated condemned and denyed for where that spirit of wickedness is seen in the light and separated from and judged apart from the creature the creature joyning in judgment with the just there sin will wither and Satan flee for there he hath no kingdom nor a hiding Habitation for the light being minded and judgment having free passage and consent it searcheth out his hidden things and judgment passeth upon all his deceit root and ground with his fruits so is the strong man spoiled and his stuff by faith in Christ and not by strength of the creature by believing the just and denying the unjust For according to every mans faith so shall he receive from God now he that believes salvation and that cleaves to and lives in some sin and pleads for it and believes he must do so his faith stands in an unclean thing and an unclean thing will live by that faith and be justified by that creature and in his justifying any thing that is unclean therein is the just condemned and the just being condemned which should give dominion over the unlean the wild Plant hath it● liberty to grow until it overspread the Plant of God and cover the man wholly stop the ear and blind the eye and hardens the heart against every motion to good or check for evil and let not this man look for good fruit but after his faith who so believes Also on the contrary He that feels a strife in himself between the clean and the unclean and seas the one reprove for sin and the other plead for sin and believes in that which is pure clean and just which condemns the unjust and unclean that faith stands in that which is pure and the mystery of it is held in a pure conscience and that pure faith being followed will purifie the heart and cleanse the hands from unjust actions and by that faith the just lives and grows and springs and brings forth and the pure Plant spreads and covers the Earth with the Knowledge of God his holiness and purity and all grace in the heart which becomes as a working leaven till it hath a wrought out the unclean nature and conformed the whole man to himself and this is a work of the holy Faith which none can receive but who believes in holiness for none can bring clean fruit out of an unclean Faith And this further for the incouragement of such as honestly indeed would be rid of their sin and set free to serve God in holiness without deceit thou feeling in thee the moving of that which is holy bearing witness against that which is contrary to holiness and condemning it and thee for joyning with it in all thy conversation I say in that believe for that is all thou knows of Christ in thee and believing and following it thou wilt feel it making a separation in thy inward man betwixt that which Christ comes to save and that which he comes to destroy for this is he that comes from above to set before thee Life and Death divided that thou joyning to the Life and believing may be saved from Death and as thou art faithfull to this Spirit which condemns sin in the flesh so thou wilt feel warring against and working out sin daily to which if thou clearly joyn denying that which it condemns then art thou one spirit with him in his work and art no longer in the flesh nor to be condemned with that sin remaining in the flesh but art one in him that condemns sin and self in sinning till sin become exceeding sinfull in thy eyes as it is in the eyes of God and as thou growst in love and liking with that pure Spirit its Law and Leadings so thou wilt become dead to the Law of Sin and it will lose its power in thee not being minded loved and served thy mind love and fear being exercised in that which condemns it and here that Faith that works by love takes the victory and not thy striving in thy own strength only from a sight of sin by the Law for by the works of the Law thou canst not be justified but by the working of Faith in Christ Jesus that Spirit and as thou feelest his working in thee and thou one with him therein in his work thou art justified and by beholding of him in this Faith thou wilt be changed into his likeness and power by his mighty working in thee even by that Spirit to which thou art turned and as he grows in thee and thou in him thou wilt