Selected quad for the lemma: life_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	death_n	sin_n	sin_v	6,726	5	9.1768	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47152	Immediate revelation, or, Jesus Christ the eternall Son of God revealed in man and revealing the knowledge of God and the things of his kingdom immediately : or, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit of promise, the spirit of prophecy poured forth and inspiring man and induing him with power from on high ... not ceased, but remaining a standing and perpetual ordinance in the Church of Christ and being of indispensible necessity as to the whole body in general ... / writ by George Keith, prisoner of the truth in the Tolbooth of Aberdein, the 29th of the third moneth, 1665.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1668 (1668)	Wing K175; ESTC R28754	117,830	152

express image of himself in man and he breathed in him the breath or spirit of life then did man live indeed he was a living soul he lived in God he lived an holy heavenly spiritual and divine life and Christ the light of men was his life lived in him then the Lamb was not stain Christ the Lamb the light the life of man and this was mans glory he was made capable of conversing with God of having fellowship with him God spake in him revealed his glory in him the glory of his eternal wisdom power and goodness the glory of his eternal love that hid glory that was in himself before the world began here man had full content and satisfaction and peace and rest he ruled as King in the creation and God ruled King in him and the Law whereby he ruled him was not an outward Law it was w●…it in his heart spoke unto him by word of mouth from God himself and man had access unto the tree of life which is Jesus Christ and it was his food and he drank of the pure river of the water of life and he lived in paradice and all the pretious things in it all its pleasant fruits he was allowed to eat of only he was forbidden to take of the tree of knowledge of good and evil least he should dye in that same day and now man in this state he had a heavenly spiritual and divine principle in him wherein he had a pure and perfect descerning of God and his will he had an eye to see God an ear to hear his voice which was full of glory sweetness power and Majesty and the other sences of smelling tasting handling feeling and that which was smelled tasted and felt was heavenly power and vertue which filled him with glory joy and rejoycing and he was a fountain of continual praise unto his creator and he loved him above all things else even with all his heart soul might and strength and God delighted in his love and he delighted in his and if man had not sinned by eating the forbidden fruit he had continued in this blessed state and lived eternally in the sweet embracements of his father and creator and God would never have hid his face from him nor ceased to speak to him face to face now when man sinned and transgressed the holy Law of his God by his sin death came upon him he dyed the same day according to the word of the Lord and was driven out of Paradise and had no more access to the tree of life nor the pleasant fruits of the Garden of God nor to the river of the water of life that runneth thorow it he was driven from the face of his creator into the earth into the earthly principle and therein he lived but ceased any more from living in the heavenly or divine principle that which had the discerning and feeling of God dyed in him and remains shut up in death in all his posterity to this day and the pure eye which saw God in the light which came from himself was ●…ailed a thick vail of darkness came over which blinded him and the spiritual ear was stopt and all his other spiritual sences of smelling tasting and feeling were stupified and benummed and the lust awakened in him in the earthly principle a sharp and quick discerning in the things that are earthly and corrupt and begot in him an unsatiable greedy divilish desire and love after them thus man wandred from God and he set up in his heart this corruptible world in the place of God and Sathan the God of this world ruled in him and so the Lamb came to be slain in him from the foundation of the world that holy meek harmless nature the Lambs nature was slain in him and beasts nature got up in him the Serpents nature and he bore the image of the earthly and became an earthly beastly man and he begot his children in his image and as he so they became children of Wrath alienated from the life of God thus he whom the Lord planted a noble Vine wholly a right seed became a degenerate plant of a strange Vine unto him and he being the root and stock of mankind the branches his posterity behoved to partake of the defiled nature of the root which is transmitted from father to son and its the seed of the serpent of which the viper the devils brat the old Adam is conceived and brought forth and till man put of this old Adam till this birth of the Serpent be killed in him man cannot enter into the Kingdom of God nor see the face of God for this is a vail of darkness and separation betwixt God and the soul now the bowels of the Fathers love stirred in compassion to the work of his hands that of the pure creation in man which though shut up in death yet it remained and perished not as to its being it did not become a nothing but remained a being and this is the lost which God sent his son into the world to seek and to save not to seek or to save the old Adam that birth of the Serpents begetting but to destroy it for it is not capable of Gods Salvation but that which Christ came to save is that of God which proceeded from him the seed of God in man the seed of Abraham whereof Abrahams old decayed body as good as dead and Sarahs barren womb was a Type to take hold of this to breath life in this and by the powerful sound of his living voice to raise it up out of the grave out of the earth and to make it fructifie and bring forth Isaac the heir of promise the son of laughter and joy and so to recover man to the blessed state of life he was created in in the beginning to bring him to live again in the pure principle of the life of the Lamb which dyed not could not dye as to its self but man dyed from it and it ceased to live in him but it ever lived in it self being an eternal incorruptible life and this hath ever striven with man in the fall to recover him and would gather man into it self as a hen would gather her chickens and this is it which every man in a day by experience finds more or less moving in his heart making him restless he can have no rest or content in the earthly principle there is somewhat of a more noble extraction in him whose center is not the earthly principle but the heavenly and divine and it seeks to be in union with its center its fountain and the earthly corruptible principle the body of sin is a burden unto it and blessed are they who come to feel somewhat in themselves to which sin becomes a burden there is some what there alive of the begetting of God for the dead have no sence or feeling and that which breaths life into the seed is the life of man Jesus Christ the light

evil birth as against the birth it self and that is only to punish to torment to execute vengeance and to Plague and Minister wrath tyibulation sorrow and anguish which tendeth unto no repentance and softning of heart nor unto any separation betwixt the soul and it so as to slay the birth and save the soul. And thus it is with the fallen Angels and the souls of the damned and all these whose day of visitation is over for this effect hath only the mercy in the judgement which worketh to soften to melt to bow and subject the soul in true humility unto the Lord and beget in it a true willingness and satisfaction to come under the judgement and drink this bitter cup and be baptized with this fire-baptism to the end it may be delivered from the bondage of corruption which is the body of sin and death and may be fitted to put on the new man the birth from above of the incorruptible seed in which only it can injoy and have fellowship with God in the love the peace the joy that is unspeakable and full of glory and passing understanding And whereas the mercy goeth forth in the judgement towards man in the fallen state to recover and convert him their is also some secret manifestation thereof unto him and of the love compassion bowels and good will of God that is towards him which is necessary to be held forth as a foundation and ground of his faith and hope that God will be merciful unto him if he but come under the judgement and permit it in him to have its operation of purging and refining Yet because in the unconverted state he is only a child of wrath and not at all a child of love but only in a capacity to become a child or vessel of the love and mercy of God therefore doth the wrath most appear and manifest it self in him and the mercy and love as a little seed is shut up as within the wrath and the judgement which sendeth forth after some wonderfully secret conveyance some manifestation of it self their through which the soul is capable to know as at a distance and through the judgement and wrath so that as the Lord remembreth mercy-unto lost man in the midst of wrath the poor soul can look at the mercy and discover it in the midst of the Wrath but it is so manifested that it begetteth in the heart a most infallible conviction that the mercy and love which it discovereth as at a distance and in the wrath cannot at all be enjoyed and had fellowship with as in it self and in such any immediate manner as the Saints witness until the wrath and the judgement be passed through This fiery wall must be climbed this sea must be swimed over this gulf must be shot before this immediate manifestation and enjoyment of the mercy and love of God can be reached unto which is the heavenly prize the City of refuge the land of rest and peace on the other side of the lake or 〈◊〉 and this manifestation of the mercy and love of God shining forth as within the vail of the judgement condemnation is the gospel or glad tydings that is preached in every creature that is to say in every man and woman under heaven which doth occasion true joy and gladness of heart in man and woman to arise after a sort because of the mercy love peace and good will of God though not attained in the birth that is from above yet attainable This is that Ark of the covenant and the mercy seat that is hid in the holie of holies within the vail where the Gentile or the Stranger cannot enter nor can any whilst the first Tabernacle standeth and the vail is not done away yet the glory thereof shineth forth through the vail as a light in a dark place And this is it which makes the ministration of death and condemnation so glorious and acceptable unto the soul because it discovereth though darkly and as in great obscurity the ministration of life and justification within it as attainable and to be attained after the other is passed through and thus it may appear how great a difference there is in the very kind betwixt the immediate revelation that the Saints and begotten of God are capable of and do enjoy and the immediate revelation that the wicked and unbegotten are capable and partakers off For the begotten know and enjoy the love and mercy of God immediately feel taste and savour it The unbegotten have an immediate revelation of the wrath and judgement but not of the love and mercy for the love and the mercy is only revealed in them immediately through the wrath and the judgement that is to say the wrath and the judgement intervening and coming betwixt And that the mercy and love of God is only so hiddenly remotely and darkly to be known unto the soul in the unbegotten state is not only because of the judgement and wrath of God intervening which hi●…dreth it to break forth in the brightness of manifestation as it doth in the Saints until it be quenched but also because of the impotency and inability of the soul in that state to apprehend it for that it is all over vailed with the evil and unrighteous birth and though within this birth it hath the true inward man which is capable to hear see taste of God and converse with him in the love immediately were he but quickned and made alive yet in the 〈◊〉 state this true inward man is dead his ear is deafned his eye blinded his mouth shut his tongue bound and so also his hands and his feet through the unrighteous birth that is in the dominion therefore man in this state because of this vail of darkness which deadneth and blindeth cannot enjoy the mercy and love of God nor know it immediately yea even when the mercy and love shineth through the wrath and the judgement and also peirceth through the birth of unrighteousness to reach unto the true inward man shut up in death to redeem this lawful captive and bring this prisoner out of the pit to unstop the de●…ear and enlighten the blind eye the evil birth doth often hinder and quench and drive back the manifestation and drowneth or swalloweth it up that the soul cannot take hold of it so as to have it as an a●…ding and permanent-object in its v●…w or observation but it appeareth as in a sudden like a flash of lightning in a dark night and suddenly againe disappeareth or like unto the spark or glance cast by the fire struck out of a 〈◊〉 in the dark for the darknes●… through which it shineth after its being a little devided and disclosed doth again close and driveth it inwards again into its center and suddenly againe it appeareth and suddenly againe it disappeareth because of the contrariety and stuff that is betwixt it and the darkness now that in which the flash spark or glance of the

whither from words or works which proceedeth from God and come not up to know him in his own image the light of his Son they have not the true knowledge of God and make void the use and service both of Scriptures and works of creation which are given forth from him self as witnesses of his glory in the world for the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his hand-work Psal. 19. 1 2. And the natural day and night the Sun Moon and Stars have a language and a declaration after their kind the sum whereof is this he hath made us and not we our selves and the Scripture hath its language and doth witness and declare many things concerning God not to be found in the book of creation and so though both the one and the other do testifie of God yet are neither sufficient to give the the true knowledge of him which is truth life everlasting all is as it were but a knowledge by hearsay something declaring or demonstrating that there is a God but not what he is for only the Son can thus reveal him and give the knowledge of him by the seeing of the eye And now therefore all ye who deny the Revelation of the Son immediately by his own immediate light which can only make him manifest as the Sun can only be made manifest and seen with its own beams as said Plotinus a Gentile who saw further into this mistery then many called Christians ye are yet ignorant of God neither can ye truly conceive of him when ye think of him in your carnal minds the object of your thoughts is not the true God but an Idol of your own brain a graven image an image of Gold and Silver an idol god which must be famished and broke into pieces ere ever ye come to know the true God And ye who spend so much of your time in gathering wisdom and knowledge from either the words or works of God and the many books concerning both while you a●…e not come to the true and pure principle of God the light o●…i Son no●… begot of that nor renewed thereby in the spirit of your mi●… your wisdom is foolishness your knowledge i●… darknes●… 〈◊〉 dead barren empty knowledge and it is enmity against G●… it is like water gathered into a stinking filthy corrupt vessel which corrupt●… and the vessel becomes the more corrupt and this more and more eats as a canker kills stupifies and benums that which is tender in a mans soul and has any feeling of God so that man becomes past feeling of him and this is the fruit of that knowledge even the fruit of the forbidden tree which kills and feeds death so that such being shut up in death and alienated from the life of God and past feeling give over themselves to work all lasciviousness and uncleanness with greediness Eph. 4. 19. And thus I have writ and insisted something more largely on this particular in tender love to the simple hearted who are much betrayed by the enemy in this thing who are tempted to eat of the tree of knowledge and because it seems pleasant to the eye of the carnal mind and seems good for food therefore they take and eat of it that is to say for I desire to use plainness of speech Sathan beguils them suggesting into their hearts that if they will read many books and be diligent in searching after knowledge that way and search and dive into the creation and to know the secrets and misteries of nature they will be wise to know good and evil and this will accomplish perfect them and throughly furnish them in their employment and calling to whichsoever they apply themselves And so one takes himself to read commentars of Scripture and this he thinks will furnish him with knowledge and ability to teach for the ministry and another takes himself to read Hypocrates and Gallen and other writers concerning medicine and so he thinks to become hereby a Physitian c. While in the mean time their minds are out from the light of Christ their talent given them to profit withall which gives the true knowledge and true ability to minister either to the soul or to the body and is the principal thing which if their minds were come to and begot into it their reading or other exercises in the leadings of this would be useful and serviceable in their place but as they are used become and are a loss as is said unto them And the enemy makes a prey of their souls and fetters their feet in this snare of gathering knowledge from books or any other way to keep them from the true knowledge which is life and peace and joy and fruitful in the works of righteousness for the devil cares not how much knowledge a man gather into his vessel providing it be not the true knowledge and wisdom which God teacheth and cometh from above and is retained in the new bottle the renewed mind this knowledge only hurts his kingdom that other can do it no hurt but advantage and become a bulwark against the Kingdom of Jesus Christ in mans heart and if ever such come to the true knowledge and wisdom of God they must be emptied of all the former and the vessel must be cleansed with the spirit of Judgement and of burning and it must be learned by word of mouth from wisdom's own lips line upon line and precept upon precept now a little and then a little as the vessel is able to receive for the Lord giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh understanding And now to sum up in a few words all that is said in this Argument the knowledge of God being that which is indispensibly necessary to every believer and true Christian and seeing this cometh only by the Revelation of the Son of God immediately in the heart and by the receiving it from the mouth of God himself and from the inspiration of his holy spirit the inspiration of the Almighty saith Elihu giveth understanding as is fully demonstrated then it follows by necessary consequence that the Revelation of Christ immediately and God his speaking to man Immediately and the inspiration of the holy spirit breathing into mans heart immediately the true and saving knowledge of God is also of indispensible necessity and therefore not ceased in the true Church though in the false but remaining a standing and perpetual Ordinance therein for if Revelation be ceased then is also the knowledge of God ceased but if this remain so must that also Argument 2. God revealed in man made manifest in him by his Son thorough his eternal spirit is mans blessedness his habitation of rest and peace and joy God being his portion his possession his habitation fellowship with him in the light in the word in the spirit this was mans blessed estate in the beginning when God created him he created him after his own image he put his image Christ the