Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	lord_n	soul_n	wait_v	5,279	5	9.2073	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60666	The work of Gods power in man with something that the spirit of truth leads to practise, and what it leads to deny ... / W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4346; ESTC R19003	14,538	19

tongue Can they reach any deeper then the old nature Or is their service any more then to build up that which God will throw down Were it not better for you to be still and silent then to cumber your selves in so much business that profits nothing at all Oh that you would once come to be silent to the flesh that you might feel the quickening of the Spirit and to that state you must come if ever you be truly happy for mercy apprehended will not satisfie your souls but mercy obtained in the election through judgement to the reprobation is that which stands sure for ever and they that so obtain mercy with the Lord they truly rejoice in mercy and wait to be preserved in it for there are too many words spoken with the old tongue and there is a time when every man 's own words will become his burden therefore do not encrease your burden by multiplying your own words for certainly they all gender to bondage the innocent life groans under them for every word spoken and not in the life is a burden to the righteous Seed and if you yet say in your hearts Our tongues are our own we will prevail who is Lord over us You will certainly know your burden will be too heavy to bear in the later end and though you may bring Scriptures that doth allow to speak of the things of God and to exhort one another and edifie one another and build up one another yet you cannot bring any Scripture that doth allow the old tongue to do it neither can it be truly so done by it for they that spake of the things of God and exhorted one another edified one another according to Scripture they witnessed their change out of the old nature and were come to the silence of all flesh and they were of the new birth which was not of flesh nor of blood nor of the will of man but of God and the tongue of the new birth spake to edification and comfort of the body for it is the first born of God that speaks the things of God and so they exhorted one another and edified one another who were born of the Seed of God And this you must come unto if ever you know the tongue of the learned for whilst you speak of your selves you are but seeking your own glory but he that seeks the glory of him that sends him the same is true and there is no unrighteousness in him therefore do not hunt in Nimrod's nature to build Babel but feel the power of God to bridle your tongue for if the tongue be not bridled the Religion is vain and if you vvill but come to that then you vvill knovv the svveetness of a silent quiet state vvhere Gods presence is felt and his life enjoyed vvhere all man 's ovvn vvords have their period for they that come to the life they need not be alvvays learning but sit in the svveetness of the savour that the life ministers from its ovvn fulness and vvhen vvords are spoken from the life they have the svveetness of the life in them and are precious and savoury to the life in all and the life is the last Ministration that ever shall be and all belovv it are to come up into it for vvhere any fall short of it their labour vvill end in sorrovv Oh therefore be humble before the Lord God and stand submitted unto his povver that ye may come to his life vvho have any breathings after life and spend not your days in the multitude of your own words lest you finish your work in a shadow and miss the substance which should do you good So be humble in the fear of God that ye may feel the time of refreshing come from his presence and do not covet after Riches but wait in the poverty to be fed with God's mercy for it is better to be a door-keeper in the House of God then to dwell in the Tents of wickedness And all that would enter into the Courts of the Lord's House and come to feed at the Table of the Lord they must enter in by the Power and sit down in the Power vvhere all the Lambs and Babes are fed with plenty for the Famine is without the Gates but within there is all things good for food the feast of fat things is there prepared and thither must all come that receive the Bread of life Wel Friends my love is tenderly to the Seed of God in you but in that nature where you are I cannot say that I have unity with you though I heartily desire that I could say it in truth yea much rather then to declare the contrary but so it is so it must be until you be regenerated and born again which work I wait to see wrought in you that all the children of Light may so know you as to say in truth they have unity vvith you Which work I leave with God who is able in his own time to accomplish what is wanting and to gather together in one such as are scattered and to bring them into one Fold and into one Pasture where his Name is one and his people one not by apprehension and opinion but in truth and life which is the singlenesse of heart I desire that so it may be with you before the day passe over for now it is therefore prize it whilst it is lest it passe away from you and be no more And this is true love to all your souls that ye in the Light may come into unity vvith the Saints and Houshold of Faith who sit in peace and rest with God and inherit their portion in the Riches of his Kingdom The 5th Month 1663. THE END

must arise and depart if ever you come to find rest in Christ And this is a truth which many can witnesse this day who sometimes were like-minded with you and did apprehend that they were that which indeed they were not when the mighty day of the Lord broke forth in them they were made sensible of the sparks of their own kindling and the light of their ovvn fire in vvhich they vvere vvalking and vvere made to cry unto the Lord in bitternesse of spirit vvho appeared to be a God gracious and merciful to them and vvith the Arm of his Power plucked them as brands out of that fire and in judgement and mercy hath gathered them into his own Covenant and in what principle stands your fellowship if it stand not in the Light Or can there be any true fellowship but in the Light Must there not be a perfect principle where there is a perfect unity And is not the Light of Christ perfect And must not the heart mind and soul be bound together in the Light if there be perfect unity Was the Saints unity and fellowship in any other principle Or did they hold forth unity vvith such as did not vvalk in the Light Or did they not labour to gather them into their principle and so into their fellowship That ye may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. Here vvas their fellowship in the Truth Light Life and Power of God and they did not say that they had fellovvship vvith such as were not in the Truth but they held forth the Truth that such as vvere out of the Truth might be gathered into the Truth and come into fellovvship vvith us Mark not that ye have fellovvship vvith us or vve vvith you vvhere you are but that ye may have fellovvship vvith us and this was true love in the Saints to such as were contrary-minded yet not such a love as could close in unity but such a love as did manifest pity and it is the same unto you this day For the Lord knows the labour and travel of all his faithful Servants Ministers and Messengers whom he hath raised in the power of his life to preach the everlasting Gospel upon whom the glory of his Life resteth how that they have not done his Work negligently but have run to and fro in the movings of his power to declare his everlasting Truth that all might be gathered to the Truth and come into fellowship in the Truth knowing in the counsel of the Lord vvhose servants they are that no perfect unity or fellovvship can be held in any other principle and they have never denied fellovvship vvith any that have come to their principle if it vvas in never so little a measure if it vvas in the Light and Truth they could have unity vvith them there yea vvith the vveakest breathing and lovvest desire after the Truth their souls have ever rejoiced to meet vvith any there and their love and tenderness have ever been abundantly manifested to all simple hearted ones though in practise they have lien different from them at present for they have fell to the Seed where it hath been and in tender compassion hath ever been ready to help and relieve the distressed but they could never speak peace to the oppression and God doth abundantly reward them for their service and labour of love and by the mighty Power of God through their Ministry many sons and daughters are come to glory who are in perfect love peace and unity together and established in everlasting righteousness in the unchangeable Seed of God So all must come to the Power of God that come unto perfect unity otherwise they are but in the changeable nature and in the changeable unity but where the power is submitted unto it works out the changeable nature of the flesh and raises the unchangeable nature of the Lamb and gathers the heart mind and soul into union with him and so makes a compleat and perfect body in his compleat and perfect life where all drinks into one spirit and feeds upon one bread And here the unity is held in the Spirit and it is sealed in the bond of peace Therefore feel the power of God in your selves that your minds be subjected into stilness and quietness for you are too full of business always thronging and cumbring your selves about many things which draweth you from the one thing which should make you happy Oh that you would once hearken and obey How well would it be with you to what it is For really there is a pity reacheth to you and many sad complaints are taken up for you considering what longings and pantings there hath been in many of you after God Oh remember the years past when your visitation was upon you and the springings of God's love was fresh in you then were you broken and melted and humbled before the Lord and you had a fervent zeal for God according to what you knew the day-star did rise unto you but you was not acquainted with it nor did not understand that it would have led you where the young child was and so not regarding you lost the sight of it and turned your faces towards the West where the Sun setteth in obscurity Oh! shall you not be lamented because of this yea surely you are and through the lamentation there is compassion to that which first breathed in you and through the compassion there is judgement issues forth to that Spirit which hath betrayed you and here I may include all such as have lost their first Love whether by apprehending Christ without them or within them for there stands the Traytor in all to draw the mind into apprehensions and conceivings and so from waiting upon God in the principle of his Light and Life there to be kept in the fresh sense and feeling of the pleasant streams that issue from the fulness and so to grow and encrease through the virtue and nourishment thereby received and how hath apprehensions and conceivings come over that sweet dispensation of Love yea and Life in measure which in years past was felt by many And how doth death reign in them And how is the precious Seed of God oppressed Oh that you would consider whoever you are that have let in apprehensions and conceivings of Christ whether you apprehend him without you or within you the birth of his life you do not know in that state for none can compass his pure life by any apprehension therefore let all cease from their apprehensions and conceivings and with the power of God silence all flesh and wait to feel the Work of the power in you and be faithful to the power and then you will know Christ of whom you speak and dare speak no more then what you can witness nay nor that neither but as the life moveth to do it for what good doth all your words that you speak with the old