Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	death_n	eternal_a	life_n	10,289	5	4.7511	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91923	Love to the captives: or, The love of God to the world; who so loved the world, that he gave his onely begotten son, to be the light of the world, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life, and no man cometh to the father, but by him, (who is the redeemer of the captives.) Given forth for their sakes, who desire to turn to the Lord, or to see a return out of captivity, declaring the way to God, and where power against sin may be received, that your souls may no longer be held under the snare of the Divel, nor you be made a prey upon by deceivers, but come away to the light, which is the power of God unto salvation; and he that believes shall be saved, and he that believes not shall be damned.	Rofe, George, d. 1664.	1657 (1657)	Wing R1786; Thomason E903_1; ESTC R207415	6,715	8

is that which is well pleasing unto God And now is the day that the Lord calls unto you and if ever you find redemption or recovery out of iniquitie it must be by the light else you are lost for ever and know this that you cannot enjoy two Kingdomes if you enjoy the love and delights and pleasures of the world which are enmity with God you partake not of the joyes of the Kingdome of God Iames 4 4. you cannot serve God and Mammon if you are servants to sin you are not servants to God and to whom you yeeld your members servants to obey Matt 6 23. 1 Io 3 6 8. Rom 6 16. Iohn 3 16. his servants yee are whether of sin unto death or righteousness unto life and now the love of God appears towards you that your nakedness may be covered and your pollutions done away O that you would but consider how the Lord hath waited on you to be gracious unto you who hath given his Son a light that whosoever beleeves in him shall not perish but have eternal life Isa 42 6. Iohn 3 15 and this was the love of God to sinners who hath given his Son that in him you might have life and this is the Lords mercy to you and your blessing if you receive him who is not of this world And in your return to the Lord would my soul rejoyce and when shall the day be seen that you seek no more your own honor or delights but the honor of the Lord Iohn 5 44. and if you come to see and possess this then you will see all flesh to be as grass and the glory of it to be as the flowers of the field Isa 40.6 7 8. Isa 52 7. Rom 10 15. which soon withereth and passeth away then will be seen how beautiful are the feet of him that bringeth glad tydings to the meek and then will you see how your souls have been captive and that in the light is the pure liberty and blessed are they that receive it and walk in the love of it for there is no occasion of stumbling though it be a stumbling stone and rock of offence to the world Rom 9 32 33 Psal 56 9 16 62 2. 94 22. Heb 11 38. yet it s the defence and strength of the saints and servants of God of whom the world is not worthy though by the world they are accounted as the off-scouring of all things yet their reward is in the Lord God Almighty who is over all the world And this I lay upon you all Isa 56 11. Ier 5 31 23 21 22 32 Ezek 22 28. Ezek 34. Mica 3 5 11. Mal. 2. Matt 15 to 20 Matt 6 5. 23. 2 Tim 3. 2 Pet 2 13. 14 15. Iud 11 16. Lu 13 3 5. as you will answer it before the Lord at the day of your account that you take heed you hold not up such as you know have deceived you or as the Scriptures witnesseth against to be deceivers lest you partake of their sins and so must partake of their plagues and by their fruits you shall know them so see that you come out from amongst them and be you separate and touch no unclean thing that the Lord God may receive you and you may see forgiveness of sins and iniquities blotted and so obey the life of the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world and if you hate your part in him your sins remains upon your heads and God is clear of your blood and hath no delight in the death of a sinner but calls to the wicked to repent that they may find mercy and his witnesse that reproves for evil is in you and calls to repentance and if you repent not you perish and this is in love to your souls though it may appear folly to your wisdome to which I doe not send it nor do I look to be owned by it but commend it to that of God in your Consciences Given forth in the Common Goal of Saffron-Walden in Essex the 1. day of the 11. month 1656. By a sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus G. R. Learn to know the Spirit of God with it to try all things and hold fast that which is good FINIS

sitteth in the Temple of God and saith he is God and so deceiveth them that dwell on the earth who is transformed into the likeness of the truth it self and is a leader of the children of disobedience in all manner of deceivableness of unrighteousness and keeps you in captivity 2 Thes 2.10 Isa 5.13 and into much profession you are led and many likenesses and invitations are acted and many sects and forms Eccles 7.24 and opinions ran into though the life and power of God is lived out of yea it may be not one of a thousand that are acquainted with it or that dare own them who witness it forth as it is in Jesus who are ready to seal to their testimony with their bloods 2 Tim. 4.3 and though you reject the power and testimony of this pure life yet you have heaped up Teachers to your selves and they have your praise and are exalted by you though I know and if you did but examine your own hearts the light of Christ in you would let you also see and know Jer. 23.21.22 32. that they have not profited you but the bands of iniquitie yet is strong in you and them who you have so set up and do exalt and praise to be rare Teachers many of you do not understand what they say nor they themselves whereof they affirm but many of you are in such sottishness that when you are hearing these you so allow of 1 Tim. 1.7 that sleep overcomes you yea in the very time of your pretended worship and some of your your hearts run a whoring after the things and lusts and pleasures and vanity of the world Ezek. 6.9 Hosea 4.11 imagining or coveting what to have to eat or drink and to put on to your bodies and inventing how to get money to satisfie your lusts with 1 Tim. 6.10 and how you should take pleasure enough in your own beloveds or deceitful lovers which your adulterous hearts delights in and thus you poor blind people are held captive and though you draw near unto God with your lips and profess his name with your tongues Mat. 15.7 8 9 yet your hearts is far from him and thus have you delighted your selves in vanity following the wicked one who hath stoln away your hearts which runs a whoring from the living God delighting in the ceatures more than in the Creator and thus you spend your time in vanity treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath Rom 2 5. and thus in your pretended solemn meetings and best duties as you esteem of them you euen add sin unto iniquity your minds running a whoring from God yea when pretended to serve and worship God and in the captivitie where you are where iniquitie is lived in it cannot be otherwaies for where the light is not your guide there your wills is at liberty and the wicked one subjecting you to vanity and the light in which your minds should be stayed is rejected and so in vain is your worship and your drawing near unto God with your mouthes Psal 66 18. while iniquity is regarded in your hearts and the light of Christ rejected Isa 58. which should lead you out of captivity and break the bands of iniquitie And this I know that in time past when the night was upon me and my soul held captive and the creature made a servant to sin and corruption I followed after such men as you have set up to be your Teachers yea I followed them day after day long together and never found any satisfaction to my soul by what I heard them speak though some praise of men I got thereby yet misery encompassed me yea often day and night I sought after the Lord and that in tears and my soul desired after the Lord but their teachings was so dirty and their words so deceitful and so contrary to the life and power of God that instead of awakning me to the Judgements of God 1 Cor 15 34. Ephes 5 4. Rom 8 20. they lull'd me asleep and that in the very time of being to hear them and though I was a constant hearer of them several years together yet vanity and pride encreased and the vain mind and wicked thoughts were at liberty in the tim s of their speaking and I followed them till misery overtook me and the light in my Conscience shewed me the evil of their doings and the vanitie of their words and before I heard the everlasting Gospel the light truely declared of I saw by the witness of God in the Priests and people great wickedness and my self to be one amongst them and knew no way to recover out of it until the Lord revealed his power and while I was a follower of the Priests I instead of going to the Steeple-house have been made to go and lament my condition in a secret place yea from amongst men in a word to seek the Lord and to bewail my soul that was overwhelmed with iniquitie and desired in tears to know the Lord but the way I never found by the wisdome of man nor had known it to this day if the Lord Jesus had not revealed himself to me in his marvellous light which often appeared to me when I knew it not I speak the truth I lie not God is my witness who knows the secrets of all hearts who is the righteous Judge who will reward every man according to his deeds Isa 59.13 Rom. 2.6 and every mans deeds shall be witnessed in the presence of the Lord by the light of his Son in their consciences And all people consider in your beds and in your secret clossets examine your selves and let the light in your consciences manifest your conditions to you which light is present at all times letting you see you should not commit evil and then you will see that you know but little of the life and power of God though in words you have made a large profession of his name and this is it which the Lord requires of you that you obey the light of his Son in your consciences that 's the light which lets you see the evil of your doings and a measure of it you have every one received and obedience to it God requires John 1 9. 1 Cor. 12 7. 1 Sam 15.22 Matt 11.27 and doing this its better than Sacrifice and all that comes unto God its in this light and no man knows the Father but them to whom the light reveals him and so all your profession of God which is out of the light is but vanity and iniquitie and while pride and lusts is obeyed in the professor there is the hypocrite the thief and the robber running before Christ professing his name Iob 15 31. Mal. 4.1 Iames 4 6. Matt 23. Iohn 10 8. Isa 1 12. Deut 4 30 31 being out of his life God requires not this at your hands but obedience the Lord requires and the breaking off iniquitie