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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	body_n	soul_n	unite_v	6,137	5	9.8589	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91474	The watcher: or, The stone cut out of the mountains without hands, striking at the feet of the image, whose head is gold, and brest of silver, and thighs of brass, and legs of iron, and feet part iron and part clay, Dan. 2. 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. Or, A discovery of the ground and end of all forms, professions, sects and opinions, and also how they now are made as friends, and joyn hand in hand against the substance, the life and power of God, which is now made manifest in his sons and daughters (according to his promise) as hath been plainly manifest in several meetings betwixt the people called Quakers, and the people called Baptists, which is here describ'd. And also a description of the true Church, ... / VVritten by a friend to all tender hearted ones, who hunger and thirst after God, who are hoping and seeking in forms for life, to the directing of their mindes, where and how to finde the true light which leads into the true life and power of Godliness, the end of all forms, where I rest with all who in spirit read me, who am known to them who are without, by the name, Iames Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P541; Thomason E845_18; ESTC R621	62,535	56

doe walk and serve and worship him in spirit and in truth and such is the Father seeking to worship him Iohn 4.23 24 in whom he is in doing his own ork even to destroy the old Creation and create new Heavens and new Earth wherein dwelleth Righteousness and those are they that are the new creatures in whom this new work is witnessed in whom the Father hath manifested his Son that in the likeness of sinful flesh he might condemn sin in the flesh and to bind the strong man and cast him out of his house and spoyl his goods and so to destroy the works of the Devil and to cut down the Man of Sin even that son of perdition who is exalted above all that is called GOD sitting in the Temple of God as God and saith he is God this is he by whom the world is deceived who is the God of the world even the Prince of Darkness who rules in all the Children of Disobedience and so said Iohn in the light the whole world lies in wickedness and unto this doth Christ come with a sword for to make war with him and to take and bind him and cast him into utter darkness and so to take his Kingdom from him and to rule himself in righteousness And this is the King of the SAINTS who is now come to redeem unto himself a pure people and to wash them and clense them from their sinnes by his BLOOD and so to wash away all filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit and this is the Baptism by which they are received into his Church and Faith and here is the effect of his BLOOD wrought in MAN and thus he doth and will manifest his mighty power to purifie and clense and make Man a fit Temple for himself to dwell in and thus is GOD with us manifested in Flesh and thus are the Saints Bodies made the TEMPLES of the HOLY GHOST and thus is the word of Life and Reconciliation witnessed to the raising up the Soul to Life and reconciling the Soul to GOD and those are they that are begotten and born again of the Immortal Word which dwelleth and abideth for ever and here is the Houshold of God the Houshold of Faith and the Houshold of Love 1 Iohn 1.1 who speak the things which they have heard and seen and tasted of the good Word of Life which was in the beginning and those are the children of Light who are gathered out of the darke Forms Judgments and Opinions into the life and power of godliness to walk in the Light of Life wherein they are gathered and united by the one Spirit of Love and Life into one body of which Christ is head and here is the true Church which the Lord is a gathering and washing and cleansing and purifying by his Spirit that he may redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinckle or any such thing whose insides are washed and made clean through the Word Iohn 15. by which they are reconciled into the love and union which springs from the Life of God and here is the Vine and the Branches and here is the communion of the Church all feeding upon one Bread all drinking upon one cup this is Christ the Life of the Saints and as many as are baptized into this Church partake of this communion and those are they which have denied themselves and have borne the Cross of Christ by which they are crucified to the world and the world to them who are gathered into one Covenant of Life where all are Fellow-Servants under one MASTER who serve one another in love and meeknesse and here is the true Humility in the HEART wrought and here is the true washing of feet without Hypocrisie which some are imitating without for LIFE but falls short for the heart the Lord requires And thus is the Church of Christ gathered by one spirit and by the same circumcised and baptised into one Light and Life and Power where all dwell as MEMBERS of one BODY of which CHRIST is the HEAD And here is the blessed Union and Communion in one and here God is worshipped in Spirit and in Truth and as CHRIST is spiritual so is his Body and so is his Ordinances and here are the true Christians not those that onely have the Notion of those things but they that witness and possess this in Life and they that believe hath the witness within themselves and they that believe have passed from death unto life and the life which they now live in is by faith in the Son of God which faith is without respect of persons who are the new creatures who are in Christ Jesus to whom there is no condemnation who walk not after the FLESH but after the SPIRIT Gal. 5.23 for against such there is no LAW for they are translated out of that NATURE for which the LAW was added and are set free by the Law of the Spirit of Life and are made partakers of the Divine nature of Christ Rom. 8.2 1 Iohn 4.17 by which they are made Christians and therefore saith Iohn as he is so are we in this prasent world and such now witnesses the effect of the blood of Christ wrought within them and the end of his coming and the benefit of his Death who are dead with him and risen through the death of the Cross and these are they that have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Son of God within them Christ within the hope of Glory or else no hope of Glory for they that cannot witness him so 2 Cor. 13.5 Iohn 17.23 are in the Reprobation so saith the Apostle and here is the Son in the Saints and the Father in the Son and thus are all made perfect in one and here is the true Church where there is but one Teacher one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one Light one Life and one way one Shepherd and one Sheepfold and one Priest over the houshold of God and one hope and one language one family and one God and father of all and they that cannot witness this are Strangers to Christ and Strangers to his Cross and Strangers to the Commonwealth of Israel And this is the work which the Lord now hath begun and is carrying on by a strong arm and mighty power to redeem unto himselfe a pure Church and blessed are they that hearken unto his voyce Here all you Formalists Imitators and selfe-acters are shut out here all you proud ones are shut out here all you lustful ones fleshly ones and carnal ones are shut out and all you that are conformed like unto the world in their fashions in their customes in their words in their ways in their worships and traditions in their love and in their fellowship who are seeking the glory and honor and riches of this world you are the children of this World under the Dominion of the GOD of the WORLD whose Kingdom is

to be one that prophaned the temple a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazareans Acts 24. Acts 22.22 Ephes 5.8 a pestilent fellow a raiser of sedition many cry'd out away with such a fellovv he 's not worthy to live thus they suffer'd by the zealous professors in those daies but they whose mindes was turned to the light they was translated out of darkness into the light 1 Cor. 12 13 1 Iohn 3.14 Col. 3.9 10. Rom. 6.6 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11 and became the children of light and was baptized by one Spirit into one body and had passed from death unto life and had put off the old man and put on the new the old man being crucified with Christ though some of them was drunkards some swearers some proud some covetous Idolaters Adulterers yet then they were cleansed and washed and sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God and here was the Church which witnessed the Spirituall Baptisme into the Spirituall Body of which Christ is Head and they being thereby set free from Sin their Union and Communion was here and the Bread which the Saints brake was the Communion of the Body of Christ 1 Cor. 10.16 2 Cor. 5.17 1 Cor. 12.27 Iohn 2.27 1 Cor. 1.18 and the Cup which they drank was the Communion of the Blood of Christ and they was in Christ new Creatures all members of one Body and needed not that any man should teach them because the anointing was in them and to them the Cross was the power of God unto salvation though to the Greeks foolishness and to the Jews a stumbling block and in this Cross Paul rejoyced Gal. 6.14 by which he was Crucified to the world and the world to him and they was not conformed unto the world but transformed by the renewing of their mindes and had one Lord one Faith Eph. 4.4 5.6 one Baptisme one way one Teacher one Life and one Shepheard and one Priest over the houshould of God and one God and Father of all Phil. 3.20 being united by one Spirit into the bond of peace and their conversation was in Heaven and there was the Christians and though there was a time that when Christ was preached after the flesh Phil. 1.16 17 18. some preached Christ through envy and strife and contention to add affliction to Pauls bonds yet in all this he rejoyced that the name of Christ was spread abroad for there was many that believed not that that was the Christ that suffered at Ierusalem and was crucified as Paul himself had not and as there is many such to this day and so it rejoyced him that the name of Christ was spread abroad but after his name was spread abroad and many believed that that was the Christ 2 Tim. 3.5 then the Apostle declared against such who had the form but denyed the life and power and said from such turn away for as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses so do they withstand the truth being men of corrupt mindes and reprobates concerning the faith and said the Apostle we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling-block 1 Cor. 1.23.24 2 Cor. 5.16 and the Greeks foolishness but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdome of God and said the Apostle hence know we no man after the flesh and though we have known Christ after the flesh hence know we him no more but he that is in Christ is a new creature old things are passed away and all things become new and they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and Lusts Gal. 4.24 Col. 26 27. 2 Cor. 13.5 1 Iohn 5.10 Iohn 5 25. 1 Iohn chap. 3.5 2 Pet. 1.4 1 Iohn 4.11 chap. 5.19 and the Apostle preached Christ within the hope of glory the Ministry which had been hid from ages and generations and they that could not witness Christ in them was reprobates and here it was not sufficient for them to say they believed Christ dyed for them but he that believeth hath the witness within himself and he that believeth is passed from death unto life and he that believeth is born of God and he that is born of God doth not commit sin and those was they who was made partakers of Christs divine nature therefore saith Iohn as he is so are we in this present world and we are of God and the whole world lyeth in wickedness and they that are of God heareth us and they that are not with us are against us then the Apostle Paul he spoke of false Apostles that was gotten transforming themselvs as the Apostles of Christ 2 Cor. 11.13 4.15 no marvel saith he for Satan himself is transformed as an Angel of light therefore it is no great thing also if his Ministers be transformed as the Ministers of Christ whose end shall be according to their works and the Apostle Peter he fore-told of such who through covetousness with feigned words should make merchandise of the people and Iude he spoke of such who go on in the way of Cain 2 Pet. 2 8. Iude 11. 1 Iohn 2.10 1● and after the error of Balaam for gifts and rewards and saith Iohn it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrists shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time they went from us but they were not of us Now the false Apostles was such as under a pretence or profession of true Apostles deceived the ignorant and brought in heresies and so Antichrist is one that under the profession of Christ opposes Christ and drawes from him in the life though under a profession of his name and of faith in him and thus Antichrist got up even that man of sin 2 Thes 3 4. that is exalted in man above all that is called God sitting in the Temple of God as God and saith he is God and thus he decived them in that age as an Angel of Light in a form and likeness of Christ but a false Christ who bewitched them from the truth with a form and profession and thus Antichrist hath raigned by the power of Darkness ever since the Apostles dayes over the world under a Gospel profession yet I say not but that the Lord hath had a remnant in all ages to himself who was zealous and faithfull in what they knew but here hath been a long time of cruel darkness and ignorance and the Lord hath been a long time as a stranger in the earth and they that were accounted to believe on God or Christ looked at him as a God a far off in the heavens without far off they know not where yet they that said they believed that that was the Christ that dyed at Ierusalem and that he dyed for their sins and rose again and was sitting at the right hand

the first man yet standing and the first Image and the Serpent head for while you are strangers to the light and your minds are from the light you are wandred and strayed in the pathes of darknes and so are the children of darkness in whom the Prince of darkness rules even the Serpent who is head in man but the promise is Gen. 3.15 the seed of the woman shal bruise the Serpents head but you are acting in your own wills and wisdome the Serpent is your head and you are not yet come to witness the first promise fulfilled but are still in the fall under the power of Darkness in the disobedience and strangers unto the Cross and so have no part in Christ in that nature for none comes to have a right in Christ but through the Cross for as many as are baptised into Christ are baptised into his death and they that are dead with him do live with him and they that are dead are freed from sin and they that are in Christ are new creatures old things are passed away and all things become new but they that are not in Christ are still in old Adam and so in the fall under the curse and under deaths dominion drove out from the presence of God into the earth and death reigns over all from Adam until Moses Rom. 5.14 of what profession soever therefore now read your selves by the light which comes from Iesus Christ and shines into your dark hearts and searcheth the heart and tryeth the reins and maketh manifest the secrets to which light I am made manifest and by it witnessed in you all and unto it I do direct your mindes for the turning of your mindes from the darkness to the light all you that have a desire to find the way of truth in what form soever that thereby you may come to see how you have been wandered and scattered in the many wayes of darkness in the land of darkness in this cloudy dark day as sheep without a shepheard being carryed about after the voyce of strangers from the shepheard of your souls therefore hearken no more without to those that cry lo here or lo there is Christ and so draws your minds without to seek for a Christ without and a redemption and a sanctification without and a righteousness without and a God withou but turn your minds within for it is to be found within if ever you find for there is no way to come unto the true knowledg of the truth or of God or of Christ but by that of God within for what is to be known of God is manifest within and the same which descended the same doth ascend and so the way to God is to be found within by the light which manifests death and slayes death do not you read the parable of the woman that had lost the piece of silver and could not find it until she had turned into the house and lighted the candle swept the house then she found that which she had lost and rejoyced with her neighbors Luke 15.8.9 Pro. 20.27 Iohn 1.4 now the Spirit of man is the candle of the Lord and his life was the light of men so turn in your minds to the light of the Lord Jesus which if you love it to bring your deeds to it wil let you see the deeds of darkness and the pathes of death and it wil also search your hearts and make manifest your inward parts and let you see what you have lost and as you love this light and likes to retain it in your minds and by it to be guided it wil lead you out of all the crooked froward waies of darkness into the light of life and so to come to find and know the voice of the true shepheard who is come to seek out and gather all his scattered sheep out from amongst the mountains and valleys and the many wayes and crooked pathes wherein they have been scattered and strayed in the land of Darkness Ier. 23.3 and to gather them together into one flock into one way into one sheepfold he alone wil be their shepheard and this you shall come to witness as you love this light and follow it it wil lead you out of your many Forms and many wayes into one way out of your own wisdome and imaginations wherein you have been building Babel and this wil strip you of all your own righteousness wherewith you have covered over your deceitful hearts and it wil lay your deceits before you and bring you to judgement and if you love this light and follow it and be willing to wait upon it out of your own wills and wisdome and imaginations and carnall thoughts reasonings and consultations and selfe-acting Iohn 1● and imatating it wil lead you to know the voice of the true shepheard within you from the voice of the stranger and so to know the precious from the precious from the vile he who saith I am the light he saith I am the good shepheard who wil bring you to know the way and the dore into the sheepfold if you do not run out in your own wills and seek to climb up another way for the way is but one and he that saith I am the light saith I am the way and I am the dore into the sheepfold so if you turn from the Light and stumble at the light you stumble at all and so fall but if you love the light and be willing to follow the light it will lead you through all and to deny your selves and to take up his Cross unto thy self and to pass through good report and evil report through persecution through death 2 Cor. ● 8 and the way wil not be grievous but joyous and so you wil come into the way and in at the dore unto the sheepfold and so into the fellowship and into the life and into the power and into the faith of the Saints where all live in union in one united by one into one body the end of all jarring and jangling divisions and disputes therefore said the Apostle where is the wise where is the disputer of this world hath not God made foolish the wisdome of this world 1 Cor. 1. therefore I do you call to come out from amongst them and be ye seperate and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you saith the Lord and I wil be unto you a father and ye shal be my Sons Daughters now you are called and this is the day of your visitation for now light is come into the world and if you like to retain it in your minds happy are you 2 Cor. 6.17 18. but if not by it you are left without excuse and it wil judge you at the last day for he that loves the light shal not walk in darkness but shal have the light of life but he that doth evil hates the light which is his condemnation Iohn 8.12 now the way is plain to all simple ones who have a desire to find it declared by a friend and witness to the eternall Truth who am called I. 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