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	sin_n	soul_n	10,824	5	5.0379	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30523	A faithful testimony concerning the true worship of God what it is in it self, and who are the true vvorshippers : in opposition to all the false worship in this nation, which is idolatry, which is discovered in its foundation, and in its manifestation, not to be ever commanded of God, or practised by his apostles and saints, but it is declared to consist chiefly of such things and practises as had their first beginning and ordination in the Church of Rome ... and this is written for a general good to all such as are worshipping in temples made with hands / by E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6002; ESTC R36302	11,877	16

and Ordinance was signs of good things to come and when the substance was come the Saints denyed the shadows and the figures but as for these they are denyed wholly as being Idolatry and Abomination from the beginning to the end of them for as I have shown these things which are the matter of which your Worship and Ordinance doth consist had their rise and beginning in the days of darknesse and ignorance since the Apostacy came in and so in the Name and Authority of the Lord we do declare against them even against your Temples and whole Worship to the intent to bring you to the true Worship that is in spirit and in truth and that you might know your bodyes the Temples of God and that he might dwell in you and walk in you according as he hath promised in the New Covenant Wherefore all people awake and come out of your Idolatry and Idolatrous Worships seperate your selves touch no more of it that the Lord may receive you and that you may come into his Covenant which is life and peace for your souls for in those Worships and Temples and all your practises therein you have not true peace with the Lord nor the refreshments from his pure presence but sin and death reigns amongst you and great ignorance is over your hearts and Idolatry corrupts your minds and the Lord hath been forgotten by you dayes without number God is not well-pleased neither hath any delight in your Worship for your worship of him and fear towards him is but taught by the precepts of men and by the traditions of the Fathers in the days of Popery and if ever he opens your eyes you will see it for it is with the humble and contrite in heart that the Lord dwels him that crembleth at the word of the Lord whose heart is right in his sight and hath learned his judgements and fear and such as are changed and renewed and born of the seed of God and begotten by his powerful Word such are the true worshippers whom the Lord is seeking and such will he find to worship him And whereas there is a great cry amongst you and among many people at this day about deceivers and being deceived and there are many deceivers you say and your cry is one to another Take heed you be not deceived by false Teachers and false Doctrine This is the cry of Parents to Children and of Children to Parents and of Masters to Servants and of Servants to Masters and chiefly it is the cry of your Priests to the people Take heed you be not deceived c. Now to all this I do say That there are many deceivers and many are deceived this is certainly true and plainly manifest but now to shew what a deceiver is and what it is to be deceived and who it is that are deceived First That is a deceiver that person that spirit or that thing that leadeth or inticeth the minds of people into something to do or practise or speak something which the Lord by his spirit doth not lead to I say That which leads the creature to take up a joy or a delight or a happiness in something of this world which is under the Sun to place confidence or felicity in such a thing that which thus leadeth or draweth the mind whether it be person or spirit it is a deceiver and deceiveth the soul and he or they that doth follow this and give up themselves into the obedience of it to do or speak something that is contrary to God or which his spirit doth not lead unto nor guide in this person is deceived of the presence of the Lord and of the comfort and joy and happiness that is in him and hath pleasure and joy in something of the Creation that is not of him but besides him and this person is deceived and in deceit who hath placed a joy and happinesse and confidence in some creature or thing that is not perfectly the Lord and another spirit besides the Spirit of the Lord hath seated its self in the heart and taken possession of the mind and the mind and heart is thereby captivated by that way in the works and pleasures of this world and this is a deceived estate and thus much of a deceiver and a deceiving in the ground in that declared But now you that are crying one to another Be not deceived Be not deceived And you not such as are deceived already and that lyes wallowing in the deceit and vanity and evil of this world For while sin hath power over you and that spirit that is not of God doth lead you you are deceived and thus it is with you being unchanged and unrenewed in mind and heart are not you deceived For you want the feeling of the presence and of the comfort of the Lord God and you are deceived of that for that you have not and another thing possesseth your mind the joy and pleasure of this world and in your exercise spiritual and temporal the spirit that is of this world doth lead you and guide you the spirit of unrighteousnesse that leadeth contrary to him and can you be otherwayes deceived or more deceived For you are without God a ready and wants his peace and the inheritance of life eternal that is in him you want the possession thereof and you are following dead Idols and vanities which steals away your mind whereby it is manifest that you are deceived For all people upon the Earth that are not led by the spirit into all truth that hath not received the promise of the Father they are all deceived and cannot be more deceived then they are and so is the cry in general among people if any one forsake and deny their way of Worship and Religion and Profession be it of what manner and nature soever presently there is a cry chiefly by the Priests Take heed you be not deceived and you are in heresie and error and such like Thus have the Papists cryed against them that have dissented from them and the Prelates cryed the same and now you cry the same to them that dissent from you but your zeal is not so much against Heresie and Error simply so as it is to have your own Sect and Worship upheld and against them that doth dissent from you and it hath been Antichrists way since the apostacy since the days of the Apostles to cry Heresie and Error and you are deceived to all that did decline and dissent from him for you may read in the Scriptures Power was given to the Beast to compell all to worship him and all that would not he made war against and had power to kill them And thus have the Papists done warred against them that denyed their Church and thus did the Prelates and thus do you your cry is Heresie and Error and they are deceived who do forsake your Church and your Ministry and this cry have you learned of your fore-fathers the

Romish Church But cease all sorts of people to cry that others are deceived and that others are in Error and see how your selves are led with the spirit of unrighteousness and blindness and ignorance and a cloud of Error is over you and between you and the Son of God who is appearing now in Majesty and Renown to exalt his Name over all the Earth and Antichrists way you have been in who would have all to bow under his Power unto his Worship but now the eyes of people are opened and Life and Righteousness and Truth it self is sprung forth over all the Clouds of Darkness and Error Your worship is to the unknown God and him you ignorantly worship after the traditions of men and not after the Commandments of God for the tradition of the Fathers is seated in you above the Witness and blinds the eye and quencheth the spirit your old customs traditions and forms and your exercise therein feeds that part which is carnal and answers that in others and your worship which is out of the spirit of God answers not the spirit of God in others to convert any truly to the living God and the Lord will destroy your worship and confound it and no more is the Lord worshipped in Steeplehouses they are lest desolate of Gods presence and no more in dayes and times and things but they that worship must be in the spirit changed by it and led by it into the truth so when the Lord doth open your eyes you will see the worship of God to be another thing then you suppose it you cannot be educated naturally in the worship of God nor learn it by traditions for it stands onely in the spirit and is taught by the spirit unto all them that are born of the spirit and who comes to be born of that are the true worshippers of God in which the Father is well pleased And as for your worship in Steeplehouses God hath no delight in he savoureth it not but it is an abomination to him it is not pleasing to him because you be out of his spirit and worships after your own traditions and not after his spirit and this worship hath stood all this long time of Antichrist while the Whore and the Beast hath ruled over Nations and so one tradition after another hath been brought in and one false Worship hath risen out of another and what people hath had it hath been by tradition and not from the immediate spirit of God and so the true God hath not been worshipped in his spirit and now all the world hath been pleading for their traditions and they be in respect above the Commandments of God among ye that worship in Steeplehouses you are even mad against them that cryes against the Steeplehouses and pleads the Antiquity of your Worship and of your Traditions and Ordinances now they are ancient even as ancient as since the false Prophets and Antichrist came in and put on the sheeps clothing but inwardly are wolves these killed the life and slew the Prophets and they set up inventions of their own and your traditions and worships are as ancient as since power was given to the Beast over kindreds peoples the Lord God is bringing down your worship the original of which came up when Antichrist went into the world as you may read in Iohn's Epistle and so you may plead Antiquity yet not as ancient as the true Church is for when the true Churches were apostatized then came up your worship your many traditions this hath been while the woman hath been fled into the wilderness the Manchild caught up to God which when the woman returns again your Worship and Ordinance will be overthrown the true worship again established liberty but first you must know the spirit to teach you before you can worship in it the spirit must purifie your hearts make them clean before you can offer to God an acceptable sacrifice for your sacrifices are not acceptable but they are stained polluted in the sight of the Lord who now hath beheld what you are a doing you are in that which his soul hath no pleasure in in the day of your visitation the witness in your consciences shall answer it so you are to know God by his spirit before you can worship him the word of the Lord must be felt in your hearts as a fire as a hammer you must be created a-new have another spirit before ye can worship God So all you false worshippers you are called that you may return may come into the true worship which is in the commandment of God and not the traditions of men and in that Law written in the heart is God known who worketh mans salvation and which leadeth in the true and perfect worship of the true and living God where the Lord is all in all Therefore return why will you dye and perish in your iniquities A lamentation is taken up for you O! why will you perish through neglecting your own salvation Come into the spirit and into the truth that you may worship God and be accepted of him who is now appeared in power and great glory to gather his people to himself This is to go abroad among all people who are worshipping in Temples made with hands who are under this Ministry are of this Church aforementioned that they may come to consider and see the error of their way of their worship and of their ministry and this is a visitation from the Lord unto them all by a friend unto all your souls The End