Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	son_n	wife_n	16,146	5	6.4775	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58336	A divine looking-glass, or, The third and last testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ whose personal residence is seated on his throne of eternal glory in another world : being the commission of the spirit, agreeing with, and explaining of the two former commissions of the law and Gospel, differing only in point of worship : set forth for the tryal of all sorts of supposed spiritual lights in the world, until the ever-lasting true Jesus, the onely high and mighty God, pesonally appear in the air with his saints and angels / by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton ...	Reeve, John, 1608-1658.; Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.	1661 (1661)	Wing R676; ESTC R35141	178,978	220

that of Adams or else Eve could not possibly have been deceived by him as aforesaid 7 Also his body being spiritual though his nature was carnal there was no let to hinder his descending into her womb to bring forth the Creators secret purpose of two generations coming through the loins of one woman to make an everlasting distinction between the transcendent glory of respection and shame of rejection 8 Though the Angelical Serpent descended into the womb of Eve yet you may know that his ascending nature was utterly lost in that in stead of his ascending upward into that habitation of ravishing glory from whence he was cast he was ignorant of it and of that God and his mighty Angels as if he had never known them in the least 9 For he imagined his Serpentine subtilty to be the onely wisdom then in being and this world to be the onely heaven 10 My beloved brethren in the eternal truth whatever carnal minded men vainly dream of a general redemption by Christ as sure as the Lord liveth there is a Serpentine generation of cursed men and women which glory in all manner of fleshly sporting themselves about a Creator or in possessing of a perfection in this mortallity which with their father Cain are utterly ignorant of the true God his everlasting kingdom elect Angels immortal personal glory or misery or any spiritual thing in the least 11 Doth not the Scripture throughout make mention of two distinct seeds sons or generations of mankind 12 Can Cain and Abel both therefore proceed from Adams loines or be of his begetting upon the body of Eve 13 It is written in the third of Luke and the last verse concerning Christ that he was the Son of Enos the son of Seth the son of Adam the Son of God If Christ Jesus the eternal Son of God according to the spirit was the very son of Adam according to the flesh can any sober man possibly think that there should be any relation of spirit or flesh between Christ and Cain 14 Or that the everliving God upon any account whatsoever should be brother unto a cursed Serpent 15 Though righteous Abel was Cains brother yet their brotherhood came by the mothers side onely and not by the father though Eve was made out of Adams side 16 You know that righteous Abel did represent the glorious person of all righteousness and truth it self who was that holy and innocent Lamb spiritually slain from the beginning of the world in Abel by the heart and hand of murthering lying Cain 17 Moreover is not this answerable unto that of Christ and his brethren you know their brotherhood was by the mothers side onely and not by the father 18 Thus if your eyes be opened you may see in contrariety a harmony between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent 19 Again because of the great opposition that may rise up against this glorious truth through the exceeding pride and unbelief in the heart of most men give me leave to cite a few Scriptures in the 3. chapter of the first Epistle of John you may finde it thus written Not as Cain which was of that wicked one and slew his brother In the 13. Chap. of Matthew it is thus written He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man and the field is the world and the good seed are the children of the kingdom and the tares are the children of the wicked one and the enemy that soweth them is the devil 20 Moreover in the 8. chapter of St. John Christ Jesus the onely God of truth speaketh thus Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do He hath been a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie then speaketh he of his own for he is a liar and the father thereof 21 My spiritual and rational friends which are sober was not Cain the first murdering lying man that ever was born of a woman Seeing no true Christian can gainsay it was not cursed Cain from the beginning that murthering devil and father of lies spoken of by Christ aforesaid 22 In answer unto those carnal Jews which boasted themselves to be of Abrahams seed and were not those lustful murdering minded Jews or Gentiles which our Lord branded with titles of Serpents Vipers children of the devil and such like filthy Cananites which proceeded out of the spirit of cursed Cain that old Serpent Dragon Devil and father of all the damned in this world and not from the spirit of Abraham though they might proceed from his loins according to the flesh through mixtures of seeds in marriages the sons of God saw the daughters of men to be fair and they took of them to be their wives 23 Though the blessed Israelites and cursed Cananites are mixed together by carnal copulation since the Prince of devils became flesh yet you that spiritual may know that the Lord Jesus that made them both knew how to separate them for all their close union and to call them by names answerable to their own natures 24 I confess that all that died in the first Adam shall be made alive in that second Adam the Lord from heaven but what was that whole world that were lost in the first Adam and found again in the second Adam 25 If with a spiritual eye you shall look from the 1. of Genes unto the last of the Revelation then you may clearly see what that whole world is which are appointed unto immortal Crowns of eternal glory by our Lord Jesus Christ behold are they not called a chosen Generation a Royal Priesthood a redeemed People adopted sons of God heirs or co-heirs with Christ blessed children or the lost sh●●p of Israel and such like 26 Did not the glorious Creator and blessed Redeemer himself make a clear distinction between two worlds or generations when he said I pray not for the world but for them that thou hast given me out of the world 27 Can you that are sober imagine or think that there is any spiritual salvation for those men or women which the Savior of the world excludes in his petition 28 Moreover it is written that the Apostle said We know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness or the devil 29 Behold ye redeemed ones of the most high God is it not as clear as light it self that there is two distinct whole worlds according to that saying then all Israel shall be saved 30 A redeemed world of elect lost Israelites and an unredeemed world of unlost Cananitish reprobates that were never truly lost in themselves and therefore never capable of being found in Christ according to that in the Epistle of Jude where it is thus written For there are certain men crept in which were of old ordained to condemnation ungodly men they are which turn the grace of God into wantonness

to trouble or torment your s●lf seeing there is nothing in us but God onely in variety of appearance Furthermore do you not know that he is all in all what then is there besides himself Comfort up your despairing self therefore and understand that it is the spirit of the Father only appearing in you sometimes in light and love and sometimes in death darkness or seeming wrath or envy in the end you shall finde that all visibilities are but meer forms shapes or shadows and that all invisible operations of seeming contrariety was the Father onely who is the first and the last and there is none beside him 17 Again if a more grosser sort of these Trinitary-mongers or rather fleshly Atheists shall come to visit their friend in the condition beforesaid they will endeavour to comfort them or smooth them up with these and such like expressions Friend what is the matter with thee or what is there that should cause thee to be so full of fears or trouble of minde thou fearest where no fear is thou art like unto a child or fool that is frighted with their own shadows or else thou art mad and wantest a Chyrurgeon to let thee blood that the devil damnation sins or ciphers may flie from thee Further they will say unto their wrathful friend Let not that called sin in the least trouble thee but rather let it be thy glory because there is none in such bondage as those that are so nice or scrupulous concerning sin Sin what is sin or sins in us are they any thing else but so many several Stars or Angels in us Art thou not worse then mad therefore to be troubled with the variety of thy Fathers brightness appearing in thee though in seeming darkness 17 Again if none of these or such like cursed speeches take effect with their despairing friend then out of Atheistical madness they will say unto one another That he is an ass and a fool for making such a noise and trouble to his friends as he doth when he will he may help it with case sure it is somewhat doubtful that he dissembles with himself for some by-end to bring his friends into publick shame amongst their ●eligious adversaries 18 My beloved spiritual brethren this is the end of such comfor●ers and their hellish counsel unto their friend under present wrath O will not Jobs comforters rise up in judgement and condemn all such wretched counsellers as these are at the visible appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ with his mighty Angels 19 Another sort of empty comforters will say unto this their despairing friend Brother how is it with you do you earnestly pray unto the Lord to forgive you your great transgressions committed against him or are you heartily sorry for all your evils or are you willing to be prayed for when the Saints shall meet together or shall we set a day apart of fasting and humiliation before the Lord for you or are you not guilty of some secrets sins lying heavy upon your conscience because you do not disclose them through which the prayers of the Saints are not answered certainly your sins are not so great but if you confess them and forsake them they are pardonable cry therefore mightily unto the Lord day and night we also will do the like that your wounded spirits may be heal'd but it may be you have comitted some such horrible wickednes that God will not suffer you to be in peace though you cry never so much or long unto him until you are made to desire his Saints to lay open your rebellions before him in publick or private zealously fasting and crying unto him with a loud and bitter voice that this sort of soul despairing sins or devils may be cast out of you or it may be you have committed some secret action of murder buggery or such like and therefore the Lord will neither answer our prayers or your own or ever suffer you to be in peace more until you are cut off by the hand of the Magistrate therefore that you may be delivered from the wrath of God upon you and die in peace our counsel is that you will hide none of your rebellions committed against the Lord or man CHAP. XIII 1 Of the language and conditions of two sorts of men and women 2 The one elected unto Glory the other rejected unto shame 3 The Prophets declaration thereupon IN the next place I shall speak of two sorts of men and women the one elected unto glory the other rejected unto shame or which have committed the unpardonable sin against the holy Spirit through reprobation and which hath not through election yet both of them may continue under despair to their lives end for the manifestation of the prerogative will or pleasure of the Creator over his creatures and who art thou that dares dispute against it 2 My spiritual brethren if an elect vessel hath been left to commit adultery buggery murder or such like and lyeth under despair and if he hath not fallen under these serpentine stinging evils but is wounded in spirit through a continual fear of being overcome through temptation to commit it one time or other 3 Or suppose he is full of blasphemous thoughts against the Creator through which there is a continual fear in him of eternal damnation yet there is so much light of life in him secretly upholding his bleeding spirit that if you discourse with him concerning his condition he will usually utter these or such like words I know God is able to pass by all my rebellions against him but I fear he will not Or he will say Do you think that if God did purpose to shew mercy unto me or had ever any thoughts of love unto my poor soul that he would suffer me to do those detestable evils against nature it self beside my inward dreadful temptations against himself Again they wil say I cannot believe that ever any of the beloved of the Lord were ever under any such strange temptations or desperate thoughts against the Lord or against my self my wife my children or relations as I am Again they will say When I finde any motion of deep sorrow in me for all my rebellions and a full resolution by the power of the Lord to forsake them and a desire to love the Lord in hope of his mercy or to praise him for his preserving me under all past dangers then immediately I am subject to the most firiest temptations of all therefore what hopes can there be for such a one as I am I fear hopes or desires concerning me is but vain sure my condition is as bad if not worse than Cain Balaam Judas or any such like 4 Notwithstanding these and such like hopeless expressions yet if they finde a man that experimentally understands the sadness of their condition they are apt to desire that man to intreat the Lord for them 5 Again what ever befalls them they have this property abiding in

twofold operation which is this When his wisdom see●h fit to reveal a divine secret to his elect then his Holy Spirit is all active and when he seeth fit to obscure it from them then his divine spirit is all passive 3 For the manifestation of his infinite power and wisdom you know that he can create light out of darkness and life out of death with a glorious advantage 4 You know that if the glorious Creator for trial of his creature should leave the most experimental man that is to his own inspired light and suffer him to be tempted unto that evil of Adultery or Murder and overcome thereby he must of necessity loose that former joy and peace of the divine light or love of God in him 5 And in the room thereof both see and feel nothing but spiritual darkness with a secret fear of eternal death 6 Until the light of life appears again with a new assurance of a glorious deliverance from that sinful darkness and fearful death as aforesaid 7 Truly what ever men shall imagine to the contrary as sure as there is a God this was the condition both of Eve and Adam also when they were defiled with unlawful lust one towards another by subtil temptation of that Serpents councel called the Tree of knowledge of good and evil 8 Again though it is said It was a Tree to be desired to make one wise yet you may know that the soul of Eve was not of a desiring nature after wisdom in her creation because she was all divine satisfaction in her self 9 Therefore that desire of tasting of the fruit of a Tree to make her wise as Gods to know both good and evil proceeded onely from the rational nature of the unsatisfied spirit of the Angelical Serpent 10 For this I would have you to understand at that time Eve was tempted to evil by the Serpent she was wholly left to her own strength 11 And it was the seeming glory of his Angelical language that overtopped her present light and begot that desire in her understanding through which her soul was moved with a powerful desire to make trial of his Serpentine councel and to taste of his spiritual meat so highly exalted by him 12 Because to her received new thoughts she had not heard so glorious a language before 13 Again the tree was pleasant for sight truly before that glittering Serpent appeared Eve wanted no satisfaction in beholding the man Adam 14 But she looking a little too long upon the comeliness of his form through his infused witchcraft her soul was ravisht with the sight of his Angelical person 15 Again It was a tree whose fruit was to be desired to make one wise as Gods to know both good and evil My beloved spiritual brethren the pretended meaning of the Serpent in those words was this if she did but taste of the fruit of that tree it was so full of divine vertue that she should not onely be like unto God but she should be as God to her self 16 Also to know all that was to be known whether good or evil within her own soul but the truth is his secret intent was this that when she had tasted of that forbidden fruit she should with him both know and feel in her own spirit the difference between light and darkness life and death love and envy peace and war good and evil or God and devil 17 Since Eve the natural mother of all mankinde was overcome by lust through the sultilty of the Serpent hath not many a poor innocent Virgin or Virgin-wife been deceived in like maner through the comeliness of mens persons and their Serpentine languages by perswading them that they loved them above their own lives and of giving them such content they know not of or if they deny them it will be their death 18 Moreover by telling them all men are but one man and all women are but one woman and therefore it was pure liberty to be free unto all and that they are in the greatest bondage which are united to one onely 19 I say hath not these and such like cursed councels occasioned many an innocent soul to betray their Virginity or Virgin bed unto their perpetual sorrow and shame afterwards 20 Truly my Christian friends this was the Virgin-wife Eves very case though it may seem strange at the first unto many that shall read this Epistle 21 You know the Scripture saith That she seeing the Tree to be good for meat and pleasant to the eyes and a Tree to be desired to make one wise took of the fruit thereof and did eat that is when the innocent soul of Eve was overpowred with the Serpents subtile language as before said her spirit did consent unto him to come in unto her and take full possession of her to be her God and guide instead of her Creator 22 Truly in this case the Virgin Eves condition may fitly be compared unto the Virgin Mary 23 You know after the Angel had told her that without knowing of man she should be with childe through the power of the most high overshadowing of her how easily was she intreated not onely to have it so but also how exceedingly did her soul rejoyce with the very tidings thereof 24 If men look with a spiritual eye between their Angelical salutations they may see more seeming glorious enjoyments in the unclean Angels greeting of Eve then in the holy Angels saluting of Mary 25 Though men or Angels should gain-say it from the spirit of truth it self I shall declare the very sense of this secret in plainess of speech which was this 26 As soon as ever Eves soul through the permissive power of God was overcome to consent to the Serpents cursed counsel his Angelical person entred into her womb through her secret parts 27 And being united to her soul and body his Serpentine nature dissolv'd it self into her pure seed and defiled her throughout and so became essentially one with her through which naturally she conceived a Serpent Dragon Devil into a man-childe of flesh blood and bone and brought forth her first begotten son of the devil yea the very Dragon Serpent devil himself and called his name according to his nature Cain or cursed though ignorantly she said she had received a man from the Lord. 28 So likewise of the contrary the Womb of the virgin-Virgin-Wife Mary was honored with the onely wise Angelical God himself 29 Through which her poluted nature was not onely cleansed whilest he was in her womb 30 But also by vertue of the divine power she was enabled to conceive his glorious Majesty of her seed into an holy babe of unspotted flesh blood and bone and in his season to bring forth her first begotten Son of God 31 Yea the true God and everlasting Father himself and call his name according to his nature Emanuel Jesus or blessed 32 So that you which are inwardly Baptized with the true knowledge of the Holy