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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	great_a	sin_n	10,727	5	4.5334	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60634	Gospel-tydings wherein is shewed what the Gospel administration was, the apostacy from it, and the restauration into it again : being a message of true and unfeigned love ... / [by] W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4306; ESTC R42733	15,605	20

with and joyn into the love which God makes manifest in the Light and so mans destruction is of himself because he loves not the Light but loves his evil deeds better and follows the devices of his own heart which with the Light is reproved and such obeys not the Gospel in which the love of God is tendered but sollows the God of this World and cherishes their own hearts lusts and this is mans own way in which the god of this World blindes him and keeps him in the apostacy where he is alienated from the life of God therefore let all people consider whilst they have a day for with whom was the Lord grieved was it not with those that had sinned whose carcasses fell in the wilderness and unto whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest was it not those that believed not therefore all people take heed least you out-stand the Lord in the hardness of your hearts and let the day of your visitation slip over your heads without regarding for unto which of you hath he not manifested his love and who amongst you can truly say the Lord hath not visited have you not had many convictions in your Consciences and many convincements for your sins have you not been reproved for the Evil of your doings and have you not been secretly judged for secret faults have you done any thing so privately that hath not been manifest or could you ever hide any thing so closely that hath not been made known who amongst you can excuse your selves before the most High or which of you can say in truth the Lord hath not shewed me evil or that I am ignorant of my sin who amongst you can stand to plead with God in these things Oh surely the day of account is very great and unto it you must all come and the Lord will be clear when he judges for all his Judgments are true and do you not draw his judgments upon your selves because you regard not his law how will you stand to account for all your idle words and ungodly deeds in which you run at liberty as if all should end without account look over your lives and with the Light of Christ in your Consciences view your selves and behold the fruit of your doings and consider whether you can stand approved unto God in secret for your lives demonstrate your nature and the fruit of your doings declares your root the old man is yet alive in you and the god of this World hath dominion over you and with his deceivable working he blindes you and in the apostacy you are lost when the Gospel is hid from you and so you remain in your fins which the Gospel casteth out and expelleth where it is believed and received and if you will but view your selves with the Light of Christ which is in you though you be not in it you will see that you are under the Law and approved by it and not under the Gospel and the Law saith Thou shalt not Covet now view your selves and behold whether you keep this one commandment and if you do not then you are yet under the Law and the Law condemnes you for it is Spiritual holy just and good and was added because of transgression and whilst you are in transgression and doth not keep the Law you are under the curse and not in the blessing which is a Gospel state Now if you will view your hearts with the Light it will shew you that you are coveting an evil covetousness and both the riches of this World and the riches of Knowledg your hearts are set upon and these are two great evils which the holy Law condemneth and though you may talk of the Gospel and a Gospel-administration and apprehend your selves to be Gospel-worshippers yet you are under the first Covenant with its curse and condemnation being yet in the transgression and you have not received the love in the Light in which the Law and Prophets is fulfilled so it is not what you profess that makes you to be the same you profess neither is it what you apprehend your souls to be that makes you so to be for the new man doth not live the life of the old therefore let this consideration enter into all your hearts and ponder it in secret that it is not such as onely profess the Gospel that are approved but such as obey the Gospel and therefore you that talk so much of a Gospel dispensation and the free grace of God in it and thereby would exclude perfect obedience as a duty onely belonging to the first Covenant and say it is not now of works but of grace and run from good works and so are reproved by St. James you are in the apostacy covered with imaginations for all the children of Light are children of obedience and you that are not so are foolish and disobedient and whilst you talke of salvation by the free grace of God without works your selves are found in the works of sin and yeilding your selves to obey the God of this world and so you would hold two Kingdomes at once but do you not know that unto whom you yeild your selves servants to obey his servants you are to whom you obey and is not here obedience to somthing and doth the free grace of God save the disobedient who yeild themselves to obey the God of this world and denies the teachings of the grace when it appeareth for the grace of God appeareth unto all men and the appearance of it doth discover ungodliness and worldly lusts in all but who are they that are taught to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts are not they such as obey the grace in its appearance or can any be taught by the grace and not obey it you may as truly say that all men shall be saved because the grace unto all men appeareth but this is known and witnessed by the children of Light who are the children of obedience that as the grace appeareth against ungodliness and worldly lusts so the grace is to be obeyed in its appearance and being obeyed it then teaches to deny that which it appears against and not onely so but it also teaches to live the life of godliness and so the grace being obeyed it brings salvation for it overcomes sin and gives victory over the God of this World who leadeth in sin such servants as obeys him and hereby it may be understood that salvation is by grace and not by works and so it is believed and vvitnessed by all the children of Light vvho knovves that obedience to the grace doth not set up the first Covenant but establishes the second in vvhich the Gospel is ministred according to the riches of his grace vvho is the fulness of all things therefore it is manifest that you are yet under Moses though you have Christ to talk of and the vail is yet over your hearts not being redeemed from under the Lavv and its

condemnation but are in disobedience to the Light of Christ by vvhich the law is fulfilled and in vvhich the Gospel is preached again as in times past therefore all come to the Light of Christ vvith vvhich you are enlightned and obey it vvhen in your Consciences it reproves you that it may guide you and lead you and teach you and bring life and imortality into you vvhich you can never finde in your ovvn vvay and therefore out of your ovvn vvay you must depart in the leadings of the Light if ever you come to the life from vvhich the Light is made manifest and you must obey the Light and follovv it and not reject it and quench it and by follovving the Light in obedience it vvill bring you to forsake your ovvn vvay and all your invented forms and vvill bring you into the vvay vvhich God hath prepared in vvhich the cross is placed upon vvhich all worldly lusts is crucified and condemned and the old man vvith all his deeds destroyed and as you take up the Cross and follovv the Light vvhich is to obey it then you vvill have true peace in your vvay and vvill knovv and understand the Gospel of God vvhich is the power of God unto Salvation and the Gospel will have a free course in you and not be quenched and so the Cross is in the way which God hath prepared but ease and fleshly liberty is in the way which man hath invented and therefore it is that so many walkes in it and are so in love with it as they will not forsake it but whosoever continues in that path and doth not turn to the Light with the Light to be guided they will finde the pit to be in the end of it therefore how deeply are people concerned to take heed to their way least their obstinacy run them to perpetual ruine for it is not a profession of any sort that will bring peace in the latter end though people may be observant in what they do profess according to their own forme but the life which in the Light is ministred in that alone by which the Soul is comforted and sustained and in the needful times is helped and relieved and that is the Gospel which brings glad tydings of peace and glad tydings of good things that binde up the broken hearted and restores joy for mourning and gives the spirit of gladness for the spirit of heaviness and so the poor receives the Gospel and it is glad tydings unto them but the rich reject it being filled with their own wealth and so they are sent emptie away as to the virtue which the Gospel ministreth and therefore it is hard for a rich man to be saved who hath stirred himself with the fetchings in of wealth by his Earthly wisdom his Ear is stopped to the joyful sound of the Gospel but the poor are sensible of their want and so are always waiting to be supplied from the spring of life and are ready to receive when it opens and ministers and by the Gospel they are converted relieved refreshed and strengthned for the virtue thereof flowes in the life unto every breathing soul that wants in the Light and this is the Gospel which is preached again in the Spirits power as in times past and the joyful sound hath entered the hearts of the poor and thereby they are restored into the joy of Gods Salvation and are heires of the Kingdom and inherits the riches of life everlasting so as the testimony of the Light is faithfully obeyed the power of the Gospel workes by operation and overcomes the god of this World and rend away the vail with which he hath blinded the minde and then the minde enters into the power of the Gospel and in the power receives faith to believe in God and by faith in the power there is a sure standing and a patient waiting upon God then doth the power work into salvation regeneration and translation beating down every strong hold and casting out the god of this World which hath been exalted in the place where he ought not and so darkness comes to be Expelled out of man by the power of the Gospel which worketh effectually in all that believe by which the mindes is drawn into the new and living way and so comes to be redeemed up to God by Jesus Christ in whom is life Eternal and in whole life is the fellowship of the Gospel therefore all people forsake your own way and live and walk in the way of understanding that after your long time of weary wandrings in the night season where darkness hath compassed you about you may come to the Light of Christ in your own Consciences and so enter into the same rest which is onely in God A tender greeting unto the royal off-spring of God RIght Dear and tenderly beloved Lambs in an acceptable time hath the Lord God manifested his everlasting love unto you and in the day of his Salvation he hath sweetly visited your tender soules and hath raised you up by the arme of his power into the glorious life of the son of his love in whom he hath chosen you and in whom he hath set his love upon you and made you his peculiar ones in whom he taketh great delight and unto you his love doth freely run without ceasing and his life doth flow with pure streams of sweet refreshings for in his Covenant he hath gathered you and in his Covenant his virtue hath free passage to you in which you spring as plants of his own hand and in his hand he keepes you that none can pluck you out for with his hand he hath done valiant things since the day he set his love upon you and you are made witnesses of his mighty power by which he hath preserved you in your greatest afflictions it is none but he alone that could do that for you which hath been done and therefore he alone is worthy of all the glory for the work is of him and the glory belongs unto him over all Therefore my dearly beloved in the Lord keep your Eye single to the first principle the measure of Light which is pure for therein the Gospel was first preached unto you and by the same your Eyes were opened and your Ears unstopped your hearts broken and melted and there was the hand reached forth by which you was first helped and by that holy principle alone you have been quickned for it preached from the throne of God and from his glory and with the same you were overcome to yeild up all to be made one with it So that ye are made children of the Light and of the day and are witnesses that this principle brought life and immortality to Light by the Gospel and the glad tydings did reach your mourning souls and you were thereby turned unto God and became followers of the truth in the love of it and the Lord hath been with you and blessed you and hath made your