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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	according_a	believe_v	holy_a	2,473	5	4.6085	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54041	The Jew outward being a glasse for the professors of this age : wherein if they read with meekness... such of them as have not overslipt the day of their visitation, may see their own spirits to their own everlasting advantage and comfort by learning subjection to that which hath power in it to destroy this evil spirit in them : containing some exceptions and arguments of the Jews against Christs appearance in that fleshly form of his in their dayes which the present professors may view and compare with their exceptions and arguments against his appearance in spirit in this age, that they may see and consider which of them are the more and the more weighty / by Isaac Penington, the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1174; ESTC R28792	26,555	33

of the eye or light wherewith they looked the one looked with an outward eye the other with an inward eye And a little inward light wil do that which a great deal of outward light will not do And this I can certainly affirm that all the light that men can gather from the Scriptures cannot give them the knowledge of Christ as he hath appeared in this age nay nor as he hath appeared in any age since the daies of the Apostles but a little true inward light will give the knowledge of this thing and open those Scriptures infallibly in its season which all the Generations of wise and learned men have been controverting and disputing about in that wisdome and searching spirit which is never to understand them This then is the main and full reason of this deep error of the Jews and their desperate splitting upon the rock which would have saved them They were begotten of the Letter which was given forth in former ages but not of the life which was raised up in their age and so they knew not how to turn to the light within which alone was able to give them the true and certain knowledge of the things of God Now consider these things well O ye Professors of this age and take heed that ye do not fall after the same example of unbeleif Be not high minded but fear Be not so confident of what you have gathered by your wisdom for truth from the Scriptures after the manner that they were of what they had gathered by their wisdome but fear lest ye should be mistaken as they were and wait for the opening of that eye in you which was shut in them even the true eye in the true Light by the holy anointing where there never was nor can be any mistake The Jews fell by unbeleif unbeleif of what They beleeved the Scriptures they beleeved according to that knowledg they had gathered from the Scriptures but they did not beleeve in the living word They had a knowledge abiding in them which they had gathered from the Scriptures but they had not the living word abiding in them and so their faith was but unbeleif for the living faith stands in beleif of the living word in the heart which the Scriptures direct to without the knowledge of which all knowledge of words is vain and without faith in which all faith is vain also Now saith the Apostle to the Gentile-Christians Thou standest by faith Rom. 11.20 by what Faith By Faith in that word in the heart which they neglected and turned from Rom. 10.8 for Moses had taught them after the Laws and Ordinances about worship and sacrifices that the word that they were to obey and do the word that could give them life and make them obedient to all the commandements without was in their heart and mouth Deut. 30.14 and so the Prophet Micah when they proposed sacrifices and Oil to please God with he brings them to this which was given to them in common with mankind Mich. 6.8 for all Ordinances and Laws and observations and practises without are but to bring to the life within which is to be found again there where it was lost and still lies slain and hid even in the feild or house where it was lost And he that seeks abroad never finds it but when the candle is lighted in his own house and he searches narrowly in the feild in his own heart and the eternal eye begins to open in him then he cries out God was in this place and I was not aware of it Ah how the enemy bewiched me to run from mountain to mountain and from hill to hill and hath hereby covered my eye from beholding the mountain of the Lords house and from feeling the spring of my life which I further and further ran from all the while I was seeking abroad Therefore O ye Professors be not so conceited like the Jews and running after them into their desolation and misery but learn wisdome by their fall Do not you set up your Ordinances and Scriptures after the manner that they set up theirs for this is your Danger for this I clearly in the Light of the Lord testifie to you that if ye gather a knowledge and wisdom from the letter of the Scriptures after the manner that they did without knowledge of the word within and without a light within from that word ye lose the living faith ye are but dead branches and all your knowledge of Scriptures and practises and Faith and Duties c. that ye here hold and observe are but for the fire and the flames of eternal wrath shall kindle more fiercely upon you because of them then upon the Jews for ye stumble at the same stumbling stone at which they stumbled and fell and it will fall upon you also And as you have more Scriptures then they had and the experience of their fall to warn you so your destruction will be exceeding dreadful if ye neglect so great salvation where of at this day there are so many living powerful witnesses as they are known and owned to be in the light of the Lord though despised in your exalted and conceited wisdom Now to help any honest and single hearts among you over this great stumbling block of a light within consider these few things 1. That all the knowledge all the true knowledge that ever ye had of God was from a light within I do not deny that ye might receive your knowledge through the Scriptures and some warmth formerly in those things which ye call Ordinances and duties but that whereby ye received the knowledge was the light within the eye that God secretly opened in your spirits This was the way ye then came by it though ye perhaps might feel the thing but not know how ye came by it even as a Babe may see truly but doth not understand its own eye or knows how it sees 2. While this eye was kept open in you your knowledge was true in its measure and serviceable to you and did draw you neerer to God making ye truly tender meek sweet humble patient loving gentle and full of pretious breathings towards God and after righteousness O how lovely were you to God in this state when Israel was a child I loved him God remembreth at this day the kindness of your youth and is seeking after you O why do ye so harden your hearts against him 3. That wherever this eye is shut the vertue of the true knowledg is lost and the sweet fruits thereof wither The outward part of the knowledg may be retained yea perhaps much increased but the life is gone and the pure sweet Savouriness to God vanished And if this eye were but a little opened again in you your death and unsavouriness might be soon seen and felt by you in all your knowledge duties ordinances yea in your very graces and experiences You have a faith still yea but it wants the savour of