Selected quad for the lemma: law_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	abound_v	grace_n	sin_n	5,366	5	6.5153	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90402	A voyce out of the thick darkness: containing in it a few words to Christians, about the late and present posture of spiritual affairs among them. Together with a post-script about darkening the counsel of God. As also, certain Scripture-prophecies concerning some transactions in the latter times. / By Isaac Penington, (junior) Esq;.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1650 (1650)	Wing P1217; Thomason E597_7; ESTC R203131	40,524	63

effectually upon those on whom it is poured out and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy c. This second pouring forth of the Spirit is to be fuller of vertue and efficacy in several respects 1. In respect of the knowledg of things and the way of dispensing it There was a great deal of knowledg given out then in respect of what had been before and after a far clearer and more powerful manner but yet it was still weak dark imperfect and given out by weak fleshly instruments earthen vessels and in a weak fleshly manner through much infirmity of the flesh as Paul speaks And it was received in but weakly too so that ignorance did still prevail and men were very carnal and dark under those administrations and receptions of Light and had need to be taught over and over again the very elements and first principles of Christianity But at the second pouring out of the Spirit there shall be no need of any such givings out of Light Ye shall not teach every man his neighbor saying Know the Lord Knowledg shall then be universal among the people of God They shall all know me from the least to the greatest The knowledg of the Lord shall cover the Earth as waters cover the Sea Now there is a gasping after more Light more discoveries of God but then every vessel shall be filled and filled from the Fountain The waters shall be no more sullied by the pipes that convey it but pure Light shall spring from within 2. In respect of the remembrance of things It was a work appertaining to the Spirit upon his first pouring forth to bring things to their remembrance The things that Christ had spoken what they had known or heard that was useful for them the Spirit was to put them in minde of when they should need it either for direction or comfort But at the second pouring out of the Spirit the Spirit shall indeed bring all things to our remembrance much more fully all the things of God all the things in God all the things done by God Then we shall indeed remember the things of old before this late Earth was formed when there was nothing but the Light of God the Life of God the Power of God circling within its own pleasure 3. In respect of power over spirituall enemies and evils They had power over these in a great measure They could in some sence play with sin laugh in their spirits at the condemnation of it at the reigning power of it There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ and if sin abound grace abounds much more and again Sin shall not have dominion over us for we are not under the Law but under Grace here is fine sporting with sin But for all that it was but sad sport sometimes sin gave them now and then such gripes as made them roar out Oh wretched man and Who shall deliver Yea the body of sin stuck so close as troubled the best of them all their dayes so that they could not throughly do the things that they would nor throughly avoyd the things they would not do but were often forced by the power of sinne to do what they hated So for the world They were delivered from this present evill world but so as they were still troubled with it and faine much to be pressed not to love the world nor the things of the world not to fashion themselves to the world c. They were half out and half in got out from the world and yet the world stuck close to them drawn upwards by the Spirit and yet still held downwards by the flesh And for the Devill his head was a little crushed but he was not quite trodden under foot They were not ignorant of his devices they knew his wiles well and yet for all that they were not free from being entangled by him Paul himself was buffeted by his messenger He went up and down the very Churches like a roaring Lyon seeking whom he might devoure neither was he content with particular souls but he never left till he had swallowed up all the Churches But at the second pouring out of the Spirit spirituall enemies and spirituall evils shall be pure sport Nothing shall hurt or destroy in all Gods holy mountain Then the sucking child shall play on the hole of the Aspe and the weaned child shall put his hand on the Cockatrice den The sting of sin shall be so taken out that it shall be as harmless as any other thing Such Light such Life such Puritie shall then be dispensed as shall transform the very nature of things Darkness shall become Light Death Life Impurity Purity unto them They shall be so fully so truely pure as all things shall be pure to them so fully living as all things shall be life to them and full of that light which maketh every thing light about it Sin and Devil and Hell have no evill Originally in themselves but only by a sharp Law are made terrible to weak flesh but are very pleasant to the might and strength of perfect Spirit 4. In respect of wisdome to use things They had not wisdom proportionable to make use of the things bestowed on them They knew not how to manage their gifts and graces as appears in the 12. chap. of the 1 Epist. to the Church of Corinth to the best advantage but their very table became a snare to them Their food though it was weak yet it was too strong for their stomacks The wine of the Spirit was too heady for their weak braines so that it turned them out of the way Paul himself though more then an ordinary man yet not able to bear more then ordinary Revelations But at the second powring out of the Spirit he shall become a perfect guide There shall be wanting neither light to see the right nor life to fall in with it to the full The way of holiness true holiness not a shadowie not a representative but true holiness shall be so plain that waifaring men that never went that way before though fools who have no skill in it who know not how to ask a wise question about it shall not erre therein And this is my interest herein lies my heart this is all the little hope that is left me or rather that is a little revived in me after the bitter death and losse of all And if this also faile me or be over-much prolonged I know not which way to turn having nothing further to expect but to lye down in miserie I have seen an end of all the perfection I have hitherto been acquainted with and if I had it again yet it would be too narrow to yield my Spirit content which through much extremity hath been forced from its hold to seek out and pant after a firmer a deeper a larger foundation And now what shall I say to you my dear ones had I a word in Season oh