Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	blood_n	flesh_n	meat_n	9,640	5	9.2298	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60630	The faithful witness, or, A hand of love reached forth, that the blind may be guided, and the scattered gathered also, mans sinne and rebellion declared and the long-suffering of the Lord shewed: with a true call unto all people to meet the Lord by speedy repentance ..., also the state of professors plainly manifested ..., with a warning unto all the tender hearted amongst them to arise, and receive the hand of love ... : also, truth defended and cleared from the lyes and slanders declared by Ionathan Iohnson of Lincoln, a Baptist in profession / from one who bears no evil will to any man, but wisheth well to all men, and am known to many by the name of William Smith.	Smith, William.	1659 (1659)	Wing S4300; ESTC R38932	32,830	41

for you to serve the lusts of the flesh which makes you one with the World again in Words and Practises where the Enemy hath taken you captive and leads you in earthly pleasures and covetous practices in which you are wanton and light-minded in foolish jesting and vain talking turning the Grace of God into wantonness and making shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience being heightned in your imaginations in what you have taken up in the observation in which Satan hath transformed himself by his deceitful working in bringing forth a form in the imitation where you are set down and have taken up your rest and here he hath deceived you with a vain hope having setled you in a form without power and doth work a perswasion in your minds that it is the right Way and so sets you in enmity against the pure motion of the light of Christ in you having got your minds out to look abroad and have your expectation from something that is without and so he hath drawn your minds from that which is within that once did truly move in you and would have brought you into the power had you been faithful to the end but you are fallen short of that which they witnessed whose practice you pretend to follow and are turned against it and become the greatest Enemies unto it for he that hath prevailed over you and betrayed the simplicity in you seeks to pervert the right Way of the Lord by you and fills you with fury to cry out against those that walk in uprightness of their hearts before the Lord and in his fear are kept that they dare not sin against him but walks in righteousness and holiness in which the light leadeth them and which by his Grace he teacheth them from which you are erred and gone astray and walks after the imaginations of your own hearts where your own Wills leads you to take up a practice in imitation of what others have done who was by the Spirit of Truth guided and by it commanded and in which they performed all their services but unto this Spirit you are found Enemies and fighting against it in the strength of your own Wisdoms and so runs into error not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God but denies that which gives the understanding to know them and so never comes to the fulfilling of them nor to have unity with them but as they are Words declared and recorded for you stand not in obedience to the same spirit that in the inner man it might teach you and lead you to the Lord God who hath life in himself and gives life unto all that come unto him and believes in him by which all the children of obedience are refreshed and satisfied who lives by faith looking for and waiting to receive those things which are not seen but that which you take up your rest in and are satisfied with is visible and temporal which is seen and beheld with natural eyes and so you miss that which is spiritual and cannot be seen which is the substance and the end of all changeable things not living by Faith but by sight and contents your selves with created refreshments but that which the soul hungereth after and panteth for is living Bread that comes down from Heaven which whoso eats shall never dye for it is the Bread of life whose flesh is meat indeed and whose blood is drink indeed O pure refreshment from the Lords presence Blessed are all that are found worthy to sit down at this Table and to partake of this Bread and drink of this Cup which is the Communion of Christ's blood Be ye of an understanding heart O ye professors and consider if you have the substance and that you live in Christ and he in you and that you feel those things you feed upon to have life in themselves and to give life unto you if life be not in your Bread and Wine they are not the Communion of Christs body nor blood but bare Bread and Wine retaining their own quality and vertue as created refreshments and if you say this was their practice who enjoyed Christ and fed upon him and that the Bread which they brake was the Communion of Christs Body and the Cup which they drank was the Communion of Christs Blood but I say Examine your selves whether you be in the Faith least you eat and drink damnation to your selves not discerning the Lords body for that which they received and had Communion in who lived by Faith was not Bread of grain nor Wine in a silver Cup but the Bread which they brake was the Communion of Christ's body and the Cup which they drank was the Communion of Christ's Blood and you cannot prove any other thing without inventions and they being many was one Bread and one Body but the mystery is hid from your eyes who in your Earthly Wisdom would comprehend the things of God for you being run from the Guide which once did give you light and for a season you rejoiced in it you are departed from that which vvould have given you a true discerning of the Lo●ds Body wrought Faith in you to have believed though you had not seen and if you had been obedient to have followed that of God vvhich once did truly move in you then you vvould have continued in the holy Commandments given of God and have walked in them as children of obedience and discerned the Lords Body and the Communion which they had in it who did eat and drink and fed upon it in their hearts by faith And this was the Bread which they did eat and the Cup which they drank and had their life in him who is the Bread of Life whose examples none can follow in truth but such as receive the same Spirit of Faith and walks in obedience to it which you are found fighting against with the Words which from it were declared which you say is more sure then it is in its movings What a Vail hath overspread you And what thick darkness hath covered you who denies the motion of the Spirit from which the Scriptures were declared Did not holy men of God speak as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Did it not first move within them and gave them a Divine inspiration by which they came to know the things of God made manifest in them and from the motion of the Spirit declared as it gave them utterance and so the Scriptures came to be given forth and a true Record it is of what they were made Witnesses of who had communion with the Spirit and tasted of the Word of life and the Scriptures are profitable where the manifestation of the Spirit is received and believed in by which the understanding is opened to know them and the power of God but not to set them above Christ not against him as you are doing who are your selves departed from him and yet uses your tongues to speak the Words which were

you your portion with hypocrites Consider all you vain people of the World who live in rioting and drunkenness chambering and wantonness strife and envying what will you do And what account will you make unto the righteous God who is Judge of all the Earth and will re●ard every man according to his deeds Run not so headily in the exercise of Wickedness but stand still and hearken to the still Voice in your conscience which tells you that is not the Way for death and destruction is before you and the pit is near unto you and many of you are come to the brink thereof be stayed in time before you fall therein from whence there will be no recovery and let the time past of your lives suffice that you have spent and lived so many years together in the lusts of the flesh against the light and love of God Therefore all in Gods fear stand and feel it placed in your hearts that from iniquity you may depart and ●in no more but all come into obedience to that of God in you which makes ●in manifest and there Gods power know to sanctifie and cleanse you by the washing of Water through the Word that a new life you may come into and walk in the regeneration He that hath an ear to hear let him hear For the love of Christ constraineth me to bear testimony of what is made manifest unto me in the light that you may all come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and likewise knowing the terror of the Lord I cannot but perswade men to depart from the evil of their Ways which the Wrath of the Lord is revealed against and that you may all come to know that the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation and that his saving-strength is near at hand to help in the needful time and here you will find power to preserve you from the temptations which the enemy casts in and then labours to draw your minds to join unto for as obedience is given unto the light power is received that destroys the Devils Work and weakens his kingdom and then the Hand of Love is reached forth to take hold of you and to lead you out of darkness and from under his Government into the new and living Way and there gently guides you and order● you and keepes you from all the assaults which the Enemy doth pursue withall and he who hath life in himself will give life unto you and make you able to stand and ●ight the good fight of Faith and here the Divine nature is felt and the glory of the onely begotten of the Father is beheld And this is the testimony of the Faithful Witness which from the Fathers Love is made manifest in the conscience of every man that you might believe in it and know the saving-strength of it working redemption for you and putting an end to sin and overturning the powers of darkness and bringing in everlasting righteousness and this is the Hand of Love reached forth unto you all to lead you out of the House of Bondag● into the glorious liberty of the ●ons of God where your understandings will be opened to know the Scriptures and the power of God for as you give obedience to the reachings of the Spirit so will the things of God be made known unto you and no man can know the things of God by any e●her way either by Art Study Learning or any industry of the natural part but as the spirit of God makes them known in the children of obedience who give up themselves to the teachings of it and by it are guided to know the Scriptures fulfilled in themselves this vvil bring you to a right understanding of the Scriptures as you receive the same spirit of Faith and walks in it as they received and walked in by whom the Scriptures were declared for he that was then light life and power unto all that did believe in him and gave them an understanding to know the things that were true he is the same now and changeth not but wicked men have changed his glory into shame and mindes earthly things yet is his light life and power the same unto all that believe and comes to have the spirit of their minds renewed by him and so the Scripture is truly owned and witnessed being fulfilled in all that walk after the Spirit and have the spirit of their mindes renewed by it as they had who hath declared it in Words which are written and so the same Spirit guiding brings into unity with the same Words which was given forth from its own movings in the hearts of those who by it was constrained to declare them and thus the children of obedience owns the Scriptures and hath unity with them in the same Spirit that gave them forth knows them fulfilled in themselves walking after the same Spirit Let this be wel weighed by you who are wise in your own eyes prudent in your own sight and in that Wisdom talks so much of what is written and gets the Words thereof and with them contend in your Wills and fights against the Lord and every appearance of righteousness brought forth in the motion of the Spirit which is the mysterie hid from your eyes and revealed unto the Babes who walk in the light which reveals secrets and makes them to be of understanding hearts to know the true God and eternal life and here is the door of hope for all you tender ones who are breathing after God come walk in the light that an entrance you may feel ministred unto you and ●n enjoyment of the possession of that which in the door of hope is opened for you where the Rivers of Gods good pleasure runneth freely with which he doth satisfie the poor of the flock who vvaits to be refreshed thereby vvhich he doth renevv their strength in to follovv him in the narrovv vvay in vvhich flesh and blood cannot walk nor no unclean thing must enter Therefore do not you hew broken Cisterns nor feed upon husks any longer but to the streams of life all come and feel how good the Lord is so all wait to know the hand of Love to lead you and the Spirit of truth to teach you which will not deceive you bnt teach you right things though such vvho are at enmity with it speak unadvisedly of it yet it is truth in it self and abides the same for ever and will overturn all who in the height of envy and fury do pursue it with swelling Words of vanity Therefore let all things be tryed and proved in the light and in it search your selves that you may come to the bottom and have all the dross purged out and the tinn taken away that your hearts may be purified in the light that so you may stand approved in the sight of the pure God And here is the right Way of the Lord opened and a Hand of Love reached forth to guide you out