Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	exceed_v	righteousness_n	scribe_n	2,764	5	11.0489	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43721	The saints justified and their accusers found out: or an answer to the great dragons message, put forth in five positions by one of his messengers Who for this purpose made use of Edward Laurance priest at Bast-church, a place so called in the county of Salop, who at a dispute at Milford-Hall in the said county, not far from the said steeple-house, stood up to prove the 5. positions, and there contended for his masters kingdom, that none could not but live in sin while they were upon the earth, (no not the saints) whom he there accused to live in sin; and other falsities he stood up to prove, producing scriptures to that end, but left all unproved to anies understanding there who had the least true discerning to discerne with. Also a few queries put forth to be answered by the aforesaid priest (if he will) or any else of his brethren. By a witnesse against the dragons message (of mans alwayes living in sin here) and for the truth, called Richard Hickock.	Hickock, Richard.	1660 (1660)	Wing H1917A; ESTC R221599	13,211	17

brows as of brasse and the sinews of your necks are as Iron and it may as truly be said of you as Jeremiah said to your forefathers Were ye ashamed when ye had done abomination nay ye were not at all ashamed neither could ye blush Jer. 6.13 14 15. yea ye are more unexcusable then these seeing you professe your selves to be Ministers of Christ and greater abomination could scarce be committed then to accuse the Saints and affirm that none while they live here cannot but they must live in sin for hereby the power of God and the end for which Christ was sent is denied yea and more power attributed to the Devil over man while he is here then unto God surely the Devil is much beholding to such Ministers as these who are doing his work And I know no reason why any should be judged as transgressors who tell you that you are of your father the Devil and are doing his work These are the accusers of the Saints fellow-heirs of the Kingdom of Satan in this time of the glorious breaking forth of the Gospel of our God his Son Christ makes it a great part of their work to accuse the Saints of the most high God and to insinuate it into others That none can but live in sin here which Doctrine pleaseth the fleshly part in man which according or agreeing with it sound Doctrine by such will not be received and the Scripture is fulfilled which said The time should come that found Doctrine would not be received and Timothy speaks expresly by the Spirit That in the latter times some should depart from the Faith take notice of that giving heed to seducing spirits and Doctrines of Devils and it is a Doctrine of the Devil to accuse the Saints as Revel 12. and to teach people that none can but live in sin here and that though they live in sin yet they may serve God too when Christ said No man can serve two Masters And the Apostle said Be not deceived Brethren whosoever abideth in Christ sinneth not 1 John 3. to 7. and they who give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils are erred from the Faith and you who say that none cannot but while they live here they must live in sin and quote Scripture to prove the Assertion I never found that Scripture yet that said so and I have been a searcher of them thirty years and if the Scriptures be not your ground and yet quoted by you for a ground then your doctrine is without a bottom and must needs be such as proceeds out of the bottomlesse pit which is so smoaky and black that the Ayre is darkened by it Now that the wicked do live in sin that we do acknowledge and if the Saints cannot but live in sin too where is the difference between them both in what doth it consist what doth it stand in words and out-side professions No for Christ said Except your Righteousnesse exceed the Righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 5.20 and they who live in sin do live after the flesh for sin is a fruit of the flesh and as they who live after the flesh do minde the things of the flesh so they who live after the Spirit do minde the things of the Spirit and the Apostle said Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh Gal. 5.16 And again whereas it is affirmed that there never was any man that was without sin here or that can be this is an affirmation that the Scripture will not justifie for in the Scriptures are the names of divers recorded as cannot justly be charged with any sin as Abel Enoch John Baptist and several others and Christ the Son of God who came to destroy the works of the devil for to this end was he made manifest 1 John 2.8 And he said be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect and man was not created to live in sin here but to live in the Spirit where the fruits of the flesh is not fulfilled as Gal. 5.16 And they who live in sin follows not Christ for their Leader but him who leads into sin who is the prince of the Aire who ruleth in the Children of disobedience and therefore must the wrath of God be powred upon the Children of disobedience who follow not the Lamb Christ and such though they have the name of Christians yet with the Light Christ they are found to be false Christians and to be of the many Antichrists who bares not the Image of Christ and these are the accusars of the Saints whom the Lord hath Sanctified and whom he hath sanctified he hath perfected by the one offering and who are they that dare lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect but such as Edward Laurance in whose mouth the devil that accuser of the Saints is a lying spirit whose mouth i● full of blasphemy and casts his floods out of his mouth to drown the truth if he can and as fast as he casts his floods forth so ready are his servants to drive them forward that their Masters designe might go on Now for these Scriptures which is quoted by Edward Laurance and made use on by others for this end before mentioned I say that they who knew the Scriptures as they knew them that gave them forth do not produce them to this end and whereas it is said that Paul cryed out of a body of sin and John said if we say we have no sin c. T is true they said so and though Paul once witnessed such a condition yet this proves not that Paul alwayes lived in sin here but that he was now in the time of putting it off and of witnessing the fulfilling of Christs words who said Come unto me all yee that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest which if he had not come unto Christ the ●ight which met him on the way by him to be guided he might have been like you alwayes complaining of sin whil'st he lived but he was faithfull to him who condemned sin so come to see it overcome and being set free from sin brought forth fruit unto God Rom. 6.22 Paul witnessed both these times and before he could truly tell others how fruit was brought forth unto Holiness or witnessed it himself he was first in the time of crying out because of sin but thousands now complain of sin being in them that are not yet come to the condition it to witness which Paul was in when he cryed out John who also was a witness of the same things he speaking unto others said if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves c. But he did not say if we say we shall be redeemed from sin here so that we shall not live in sin here we deceive our selves c. No he did not say we cannot but live in sin here