Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	earth_n	power_n	principality_n	1,975	5	10.5828	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89840	This coming to my hand, and reading it over, savouring it to come from a pure fountain, ...; How sin is strengthened, and how it is overcome.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; S. B.	1657 (1657)	Wing N285; Thomason E927_2; ESTC R207592	10,384	8

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 saith in Christ Jesus that spirit and as thou feel 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 likenesse 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 feel that power arising which will make thee able to answer a good conscience and give lasting peace and so by his resurrection shall be saved from condemnation from which thy own works will not save thee and this work will go on with joy if thy heart be honest for seeing him that is holy set before thee condemning sin and his holiness and beauty in all his motions doth so delight the honest heart to see such a glory and beauty near thee that it makes the way easie after him for the joy that is set before thee for in all thy tribulations tryals and temptations this faith will present him before thee and this made the Saints of old endure the cross and despise the shame and bear the reproach after him joyfully following the Lamb in all his leadings So thou that loves holiness it is neare thee power over sin and Satan is near thee salvation is at hand go not forth to seek that abroad which thou hast lost in thy own House he is thy salvation that condemns sin in thy bosom he that reproves the wicked is with thee he that is pure is thy peace he that never consented to sin but stands a witnesse against it if thou have such a spirit in thee thou hast the spirit of Christ the Saviour So take heed unto him to believe him and to mind his leading and to follow him if thou part not from him he will be thy everlasting peace and over-ruling power to subdue thy sins and by him shalt thou tread down strength with ease and delight and shalt be able to say with such as was come to the same spirit Greater is he that is in thee then he that is in the world and onely that faith that sees him hath power to overcome the world for he that beholds his glory treads the worlds glory under his feet for whatsoever is seen in him doth so far exceed all other things that it takes the mind out of all other delights and leaves them empty so that things in Heaven and things in Earth Principalities nor Powers are able to seperate from the love of him how much more wilt thou leave thy delight in sin when thou comes to delight in him his love will constrain thee who loves purely and hath found it for this is joy indeed and love unspeakable when the soul finds that treasure in his own House freely given which he hath long been seeking abroad and could never purchase neither with life nor estate And the more thou beholdest him the more will his glory and love appear for as thou in the light beholdest the pure motion of this Holy One thou wilt come to see what thou art without him and what thy wants is without which thou canst not be happy and that thou canst not have a lasting peace till with his vertue thou be filled and with his glory covered and with his power armed against every temptation all which he wil make thee heir of with him as thou minds to be faithful and hearken to his movings to obey them in all things who thereby wil lead thee his way by which he obtained all this glory power this inheritance from the Father in which way thou wilt find a cross to all thy own wayes and to the worlds spirit in all things which will be easie if thou keep thy eye single to him who is set before thee therein his glory and the gaining thereof but if thou look back into the world thou lookest into temptation without him and there the spirit of the world presents thee with loss and not with gain setting before thee what thou must forgo with all the hard ships and impossibilities that may be but no power to bear it but keeping thy eye to him thou hast alwayes power and peace before thee in thy way the hope thereof will be as an Anchor and the faith a shield and the love will give thee life to undergo all the tryals for his sake bearing his cross daylie which must part thee and thy sins and crucifie the worldly spirit with the lust thereof and kill all that wars against thy soul and keeps thee from thy inheritance wherefore it is called The great power of God unto salvation And as thou becomes faithful thereto thou wilt feel the fruit of that Holy One springing in thee moving to be brought forth in thee towards God and man thy faith will grow and prayers with strong cryes to the Father as the spirit sees thy wants thy love will spring and move in thee and bring forth towards God and man upon all occasions which if thou willingly serve in its smallest motion it will encrease but if thou quench it in its movings and refuse to bring it forth it will wither and dry in the not being exercised And it is the like of gentleness meekness patience and all other vertues which are of a springing and spreading nature where they are not quenched but suffered to come forth to his praise in his will and time who is the begetter thereof and to the comfort of his own seed and cross to the world And if thou be faithful daylie to offer up the body as a sacrifice to bring forth his Image Name and Power before his Enemies then what he moves thee to bring forth shall be thy inheritance and will daylie encrease with using but if thou wilt not give up for his Name sake but would hold the treasure and escape the reproach then will it be taken from thee and given to him who will yeeld the Lord of the Vinyard his fruit in due season for that which the Father freely begets he will have freely brought forth that the shining thereof in the dark world may praise him what a glory it is to see peace shine in the midst of war love in the midst of hatred meekness in the midst of strife righteous judgement in the midst of wickedness innocency in the midst of violence and oppression as a Lilly amongst thorns so is that of God amongst the men of the world and therein doth his nature and beauty appear in his Temple to which all must confess and praise him therein This is the glorious day which many have talked on and those onely are the children of it in whom the brightness shines forth that which God begets in thee is his Son confess him in the midst of his Enemies and thereby is

the Father glorified and his Son crowned but if thou denyest him thy body to testifie against the world he will deny thee his life to redeem thee from the evil of it the breaking forth of the Sun is the beginning of the good day when that which so long hath condemned thee for sin comes to shine forth freely in acts of righteousness then shall thy darknesse be turned into light thy condemnation into peace thy sorrow for sin to rejoice in holiness and this will be a good day to thee even the day of the Lords righteousness and redemption to thy soul and a witness to all men of the appearance of the just one which testimony whosoever refuseth to bear all his Religion will prove in vain and consists in words without power There is a way in which the barren becomes fruitful and a little is more serviceable to God then he that hath great Riches for himself you that sees your wants are nigh it and the lowly mind will soonest follow it and for the honest hearted it is prepared who seeks to serve God and not your selves If you take heed to your own wayes and make nothing in your minds you must not create that which must stand before God for he wil be served with his own begettings in you Take heed therefore you make nothing to your selves nor murther that which he freely begets but let your minds be alwayes heavenly waiting with patience in that which lets you see your wants therewith that your hearts may be open always upward towards God the father of every good gift and you being hid in the Heavenly mind from the nature which compasseth the Earth in its comprehensions and would compasse Heaven also and waiting in a cross to that mind as you come into the patient stilness you must feel the begettings of the Father moving in you to be brought forth to which you must become servants setting aside all subtilty and that which is hasty what ever is your own or hath an end to your selves and in the pure mind behold what way this moves its appearance against the worldly spirit that with your whole hearts and might you may bring it forth in its own image without reasoning or consulting with any thing of your own or any thing of this world for this arises in a contrary nature to that which is one with the world bears another image and fruit and hath another glory in its appearance in which the Father alone is glorified even in this his Son of his own free begetting and herein is the Father glorified that he be brought forth with his fruits into the world who thereby is known how far he is above and contrary to the worldly spirit both in the ground root and off-spring And whosoever will give up themselves to serve him herein by his encrease shall become rich towards God and encrease in strength daylie against the world and by bringing forth and by his beauty in holiness shall become glorious and beloved in the sight of the Father whose image and begetting they bear wherein they shall become Heirs of the eternal glory But if you look into the earthly mind there the worldly spirit meets you with his counsel and consulting and reasoning therewith you take counsel in the night from which the counsel of God is hid his work the end glory thereof and instead of that you will be presented with the pleasure and glory of this world which stands in visible things and is pleasing to the visible eye and sences which glory the god of this world sees into and leads into in which his wisdom and knowledge stands which cannot enter into the invisible glory and treasure And in this spirit that knows not God nor his works nor seeks his glory will you meet with the thief and murtherer sons of darknesse who will perswade you strongly to murther the pure motion and not to bring it forth or else so to bring it forth as that the image thereof may be so marred as not to bear its clear and perfect testimony against the worlds Kingdom Power and Glory and this you cannot avoid if you look back into his counsel and counsel with your own reasonings wherein arises thoughts cares and pleasures out of the world which cumbers the mind checks the seed and kills the holy childe and covers the Pearl with earthly affections and lusts which continually hardens the heart and strengthens the will against the innocent and so puts the just to death in the womb for want of bringing forth in its time and according to its motion which when you have rejected you cannot beget again of your selves nor in your own wills though you may procure the like from another spirit in that nature which resists the truth and corrupts the mind and brings forth in its own will as some have done who having disobeyed the still motion of the meek spirit and looking for high things God hath given them up to a lofty spirit and strong workings in a contrary nature who now have a power wherewith to resist that which first begot you out of the world and a moving spirit which draws towards the world again which being got into the place of God as God makes them believe that their return is of the same spirit that called them out to which they yeelding the same obedience thenceforth without fear becomes the same they was if not seven sold worse without all hope of recovery and this disobedience becomes as witchcraft Wherefore in the fear of God watch with all diligence hearken in the simplicity of your hearts and take heed that you slip not any time of hearings nor prove false in your conception or bringing forth but that both calling and election may be made sure to you not only by being in the knowledge of it but also by bringing it sorrh that it may be your own for ever for that which you bring forth is your inheritance and none can take it from you but you have power therein against all contrary spirits which whilest it is but in the motion will strongly tempt and seek the life thereof to stifle but being brought forth it is before you and only so it is put on as a brest-plate and becomes a defence which being begot and not brought forth it withers and becomes as dry bones in the womb Therefore as you must give your minds wholly to hearken so must you give your strength wholly to obey and when you feel the pure to move in you with your whole strength serve it and bring it forth give up your bodyes a sacrifice for his sake whom you have not seen that his life may be made manifest in your mortal flesh and through you in the world that he may be seen in his brightness to you that love him and before his Enemies then is the body for the Lord and not for fornication But if you rest in the knowledge of this mysterie and bring not forth to life with that knowledge you commit fornication and teach others to commit fornication also this knowledge in the disobedient mind becomes the mother of Harlots and fornications of the earth with which the Kings of the earth are deceived but none ever joyned to God For it is not the hearing of the truth that purifies the soul but the obedience of truth which makes the Vessel fit for the Masters use who in his using and its obedience makes it a vessel of honor and glorifies his Son therein in a body prepared to do the Fathers will in the world whereby the Father is glorified in the Son in whom he shines forth in the clear image as the Father begets him again in you and you in him which was in him before the world was of his own nature and good will which as you receive again by faith and obedience you will be changed into the same image and nature and to delight onely therein being born of the same spirit as he that is born of the flesh delights in the things of the flesh THE END LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1657.