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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	believe_v	faith_n	unbelief_n	3,235	5	10.7449	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54075	The way of life and death made manifest and set before men whereby the many paths of death are impleaded, and the one path of life propounded and pleaded for in some positions concerning the apostacy from the Christian spirit and life, with some principles guiding out of it : as also in answers to some objections whereby the simplicity in some may be entangled : held forth in tender good will both Papists and Protestants who have generally erred from the faith for these many generations, since the dayes of the apostles, and with that which they have erred from are they comprehended / by Isac Pennington the younger.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.; Fox, George, 1624-1691. Cause of all error.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. Here follows the testimony concerning the estate of the true church.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1219; ESTC R14864	89,559	110

in this fear and this fear keeps the heart clean from the evil which defiles and preserves the love from the enmity which springs up where this fear is not Now this fear in the Apostacy was lost or else what needed there an especial ministry to be raised up to preach it again Rev. 14. 6. 7 And the estate of Christians every where doth manifest this loss for their hearts are not kept clean which sheweth that the fear which doth keep clean where it is is wanting in them There 's pollution there 's filth there 's deceit there 's high-mindedness self-conceitedness and love of the world and worldly vanities and many other evils to be found in the hearts of those that go for Christians and the purity of heart which comes from the fear and stands in the wisdom is not known They are wise to do evil but want the knowledge to avoid the evil and do the good They are wise to get and enjoy the world but know not the true riches They are wise to gather together many Scripture-words against sin and yet still keep the nature and life of it in the heart and it as a sweet morsel under the tongue They are wise to apply promises to comfort themselves with when sometimes they receive a just wound in their hearts from the righteous one but know not that nature or that estate and condition to which all the promises are made but are yet in that nature and in that estate and condition to which the curse appertains The true righeousnesse stands in the faith in hearing and obeying the word of faith How comes the righteousnesse of the law but by hearing and obeying the voice of the Law And how comes the righteousnesse of the Gospel but by hearing and obeying the word of faith who is preached and the Preacher of righteousnesse in the heart The Apostle Paul makes this comparison Rom. 10. The righteousnesse of the Law speaketh on this wise The man that doth those things shall live in them But how speaketh the word of faith The word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart he that doth that he that heareth that shall live in that The hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voyce of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Disobedience to the Law is unrighteousnesse and brings death and disobedience to the living word is unrighteousnesse and cannot be justified but condemned and obedience to it cannot be condemned but justified So that when the soul hears believes and obeyes then it is justified then its former sins are forgotten and this is imputed to it unto righteousnesse But when the soul will not hear will not believe will not obey this unbelief is judged in him and his sins retained and not remitted Now is not this a just and equall way of justification O ye sons of men is not your way unequal shall a man continue in the unbelief and rebellion against Christ against the light against the faith and yet be justified by Christ by the light by the faith This cannot be Gods way of imputation will stand but mans invented way of imputation which sprung up in the Apostacy will not stand If we walk in the light as he is in the light the blood clenseth but not otherwise If we walk after the spirit and not after the flesh there is no condemnation and not otherwise The true Baptism is the plunging down of the old thing with all its filth and the raising up of a new thing and it is the new thing the circumcision the baptism which is justified God justifieth his Son and man onely so far as he is bound in his Son The true sanctification consists in the growth of the seed and its spreading like a leaven over the heart and over the whole man By faith Christ is formed in the heart the hidden man in the mistery is formed there and as this seed this leaven this man growes so he makes the man holy in whom he grows The seed of life the Kingdom of heaven is an holy thing and as it grows and spreads it purgeth out the old leaven and makes the lump new But now in Christians that have grown up in the Apostacy this seed is not known this leaven is not so much as discerned but their holinesse consists in a conformity to rules of Scripture received into the old heart and understanding And what a noise hath this made in the world all this night of the Apostacy as if this were the heir and should inherit the Kingdom Nay nay The heir hath appeared by whose presence it is seen that this is not the heir and ye shall not be able to kill him but he shall live to enjoy his inheritance and the inheritance shall not be yours Redemption consists in being bought by the price of the life out of sin out of death out of the earth out of the power of the devil It is a casting off the strong man out of the heart with all that he brought in and a delivering from his power It is a dissolving of the work of sin which the Devil hath wrought in the heart and a setting the soul which is immortal at liberty free from sin and free unto righteousnesse this is the true Redemption But this redemption in the Apostacy is a fained redemption wherein salvation from sin and the Devil and his power is not felt but the strong man is still in the heart and keeps the soul in death and brings forth fruits of death daily The Christians formerly in the first day of the breaking forth of Gods power had Christ in them the living word opened their hearts to him received him in felt him there sound him made of God to them their wisdom their righteousnesse their sanctification their redemption 1 Cor. 1. 30. They had the thing that these words signifie and speak of and knew the meaning of the words by feeling of the thing But Christians now in the Apostacy have got several apprehensions from the words without feeling the thing the words speak of and ther lies their Religion And now the true heir being come holding forth the thing they have been all talking of all Sects upon the earth are mad against him and would fain kill him They would not have the living substance which is the heir live and nothing be esteemed life but that but they would have their dead apprehensions from the words live and their dead forms and practises owned and the heir of life must come in their way in the way that they have hoped and waited for him or they will not own him Awake awake O ye Sons of the Apostacy and of the night rise up out of the fleshly wisdom out of the dead fleshly interpretations of Scriptures out of the dead invented forms of worship and bow to the Heir kiss the Son lest ye feel the force of that dreadful sentence Those mine enemies

and I dyed Rom. 7. The Apostle was alive in his worship and Jewish state till the Law came but when the Law came it flew that life that he had there and he became dead both to that life by which he lived before and to the Law that flew him and then there arose up a life in him which answered the Law and could fulfil it and lead to a righteousness beyond it and then his life and his righteousness were not any works of the Law but of faith and in the faith Gal. 2. 19 20. But yet there is no passing to this but through the administration of the Law in the heart in the hand of the Mediatour And when the life is risen and received yet even then there is no peace but in obedience to the life The peace lies in that which brings the peace and if there be a departing from that there is a departing from the peace Any fleshly thought any fleshly motion as it is out of the life so it is out of the peace and the minde joyning to it feels the death and trouble of it Thus saith the Apostle Gal. 6. 15 16. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth but a new creature and as many as walk according to this rule peace be on them The peace comes to the new creature and to man walking according to the rule of the new creature and the condemnation is not to them that walk not after the flesh but after the spirit Rom. 8. 1. but if there be an hearkning to the flesh and a fulfilling the unrighteousness thereof in any thing God is righteous and he cannot speak peace to the wicked or to him that joyns with the wicked Therefore where there is true peace there must be a coming from the wicked nature and a living out of the wicked nature in him who is the life the righteousness the peace I know there have been curious fabricks in mens minds about the covenant of grace but they have not known the nature of it and of the works that flow from it and so are apt to call the works of the new life springing from the covenant of life the works of the old covenant But wisdom is justified of her Children and they know her birth and in the true light the true nature of things is seen and the true name and description given which he that is out of the light cannot receive but stumbles at and the wiser he is in his own devised way and knowledge of things the more stumbling blocks he has and the more he stumbles Object 7. and last That it breaks down relations Laws Government takes away due respect from Magistracy and superiours and turns the World upside down Answ Iniquity hath reigned unrighteousness hath winded it self into and twisted about every thing And now the truth comes to discover and purg out the iniquity the strong man who hither to hath kept possession of the house cries out as if the destruction of the thing were aimed at Nay it is onely the evil that is aimed at but the thing it self is not to be destroyed but to be set free from the evil and preserved Relations are good Laws are good Governments are good of God but the unrighteousness of flesh the pleasing of the flesh by the pretence of these the giving liberty to the unjust this is not good And is it not in relations in Governments in the execution of Laws If a man will be fleshly and walk in them according to the flesh the Law takes not hold of him his relations are not offended at him but if he come once to feel the power of God and withdraw from the evil and stand a witnesse for God against it then relations and powers of the earth and Laws all strike at him and the reason is because they are in union with the evil and so cannot bear the rending of the evil from the thing And from hence it is that wherever the Gospel comes in power it kindles a flame round about setting father against son and son against father husband against wife and wife against husband c. yea it goes closer then so it sets one part in man against another and the fight is very bitter and sharp till one of these be subdued and then there is peace fleshly peace if the wise fleshly part prevail spiritual peace if the weak foolish thing to the World in the heart which is of God prevaile And for honour to Magistrates and Superiours it is not denied but fleshly honour corrupt honour honour from the fleshly part and to the fleshly part this cannot but be denied by them which are of God That which is born of God is not of this World nor can it give honour to that which is of this World but it honours all men in the Lord. What ever is of God in Magistracy it honours what ever is in superiority according to God as a father an husband a master is it honours with true honour Christ the onely begotten of God could not receive honour of man nor could he give honour to man and he saith to the Jews how can ye believe which receive honour one another and seek not the honour that cometh from God onely The receiving of honour from man cannot stand with the true faith when ye know the faith ye will know it He that repecteth persons committeth sin and is a transgressor against the Law of faith which leads to the life which stands in God out of the Worlds honours worships customes and whatever else which is not of faith but of the World Mordecai did not bow to Haman nay he sate in the Kings gate where Haman was to passe and yet did not stand up move or bow to him what an affront was this to that high proud lofty spirit and yet it was of the Lord. This was a type as the Jewish state in general was typical of what God would do in the World and is now doing The Lord hath raised up Mordecais nature and he hath discovered Hamans nature and hath given the command to Mordecai that he shall not bow to Haman And if ye could search your hearts ye would finde that it is not that of God in you which is offended for want of that which ye call honour but the Hamanish spirit the fleshly pride and loftines which the Lord will lay low and he alone will be exalted in this day of his mighty power and man shall only be honoured as he comes from him and as he is found in him but the honour which the fleshly part hath sought and gained in the transgression shall fall with the transgressor whom the Lord hath furbished his sword to smite And for turning the World upside down it is acknowledged the power of the Lord is come forth to do it That which is high that which is wise that which is strong that which is rich that which is full that which is fat the Lord