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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	commit_v	law_n	transgression_n	6,211	5	10.5220	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93709	Sparkles of glory, or Some beams of the morning-star. Wherein are many discoveries as to truth, and peace. To the establishment, and pure enlargement of a Christian in spirit and truth. / By John Saltmarsh. Preacher of the Gospell.	Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing S504; Thomason E1114_1; ESTC R208461	88,386	372

private and thus fire is fetched down from heaven in the sight of men that dwel upon the earth or such as are yet more below then above or in heaven and Spirit and thus the people of Israel prayed whose prayers were an abomination thus the Pharisees made long prayers c. So as Prayer then according to this discovery is the Spirit of God only revealing and speaking in the people of God we know not what to pray for as we ought that is we as we are our selves know not And therefore all that we pray and not the Spirit of God in us not that Spirit of Prayer spoken on in Scripture is but the Spirit of man praying which is but the cry of the creature or a natural complaining for what we want as the Ninivites and the children and beasts of that City all cryed unto the Lord But in pure prayer the Spirit helpeth our infirmities the Spirit of God which makes intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered that is the speakings or manifestations of the Spirit of God or not so utterable by the flesh or voice of man and the Spirit maketh intercession for the Saints according to the will of God or according to God as in the Greek that is Prayer is God speaking in us his mind and will And therefore the Lord Jesus taught this in that form and doctrine of his thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven wherein he set forth that more spirituall and perfect Prayer which was only according to God and which the Saints should pray afterwards when the Spirit was more revealed And this is prayer in Spirit and to pray thus is to pray in some evidence and demonstration of God and in faith or beleeving the will of God as to this or this thing at this or this time whatsoever ye ask in prayer beleeving c. And all other asking or seekings of God which are not thus in Spirit and in the will or mind of God in some evidence or pure work of Spirit or raising of Spirit is but the askings of creatures as creatures and thus all meer natural and carnal people pray and are heard and answered many times in the mercy and goodness of God who makes his Sun to shine upon the just and unjust All exhortations in Scripture to this duty of prayer as seek ye my face pray continually watch and pray be fervent in prayer ask and ye shal have c. are only then rightly effectually and properly applied and obeyed when the Spirit of God doth it in the Christian when the Spirit of God breaths in and reveals the will of God and acts in the duty or expressions and the Christian speaks in himself or in presence of others that mind of God and so this Spirit of God clothes its self in flesh or letter or expressions as to the outward man and they who say Amen in the Spirit as the Apostle saith say Amen in the same Spirit or else they are not in prayer in a pure spiritual closure or unity of Spirit Prayer is the workings and weaker or fainter manifestations of the Spirit of God in the Christian while he is in bondage that is while God is not the fulness the light and glory and all in all unto him for where there is any asking or seeking or desiring there is not perfect rest enjoyment alsufficiency and fulness And therefore while Christians are in bondage and not yet brought into the glorious liberty of the sons of God they are under the Ministration of Prayer to God or of asking as children are to a father in non-age and pupillage All Scriptures of Prayer or concerning Prayer and the prayers of the Saints in the vial are considerable respectively to the state of weakness and bondage the Saints are in praying not in the Spirit of God but in weakness or the flesh according to their own wils hath been usuall with Saints formerly as Paul who prayed thrice to remove the buffeting and was answered my grace is sufficient for thee or is it not enough that I have grace for thee in all my dealings and dispensations towards thee live thou upon that and the Lord Jesus himself prayed Father if it be thy will let this cup pass yet afterwards he was more the manifestation of God Father not as I wil that is not as I or that of man in me but as thou will and many Christians wanting the clear and glorious revelation of the will of God pray for such and such things for the obtaining such and such mercies and removal of such and such miseries being all this while in the dark to the will and mind of the Lord when as if the will of the Lord were seen or discovered they would rejoyce and be at rest in such conditions and learn how to want as wel as to abound that is to want such or such things as the Lord takes from them and to abound in the Lord without those things or with those things which is the sweet state of the Christian and a rest or peace in figure to that glory and fulness to be revealed in us and those Christians as are in some measure in this light or glimpse of the fulness of God are entred upon the borders of Canaan and are feeding upon some bunches of the grapes of the promised land A discovery of the Law SOme say the Law is obligatory and binding to all Christians because moral and so perpetual and that it was revealed because of transgressions And that the Law is of no less efficacy now then before to reveal sin and convince of sin and that Christ came not to destroy the Law but to fulfil it that the ministery of the Law ought to precede and go before the Gospel because none ought to have Christ offered to them in a promise but such as the Law hath humbled and prepared that God doth sanctifie the Ministry of the Law to conversion and sanctification of his people and such as preach it are not legal thus the Protestant in general Others say that a further discovery of the Law is this That the Law was a discovery or appearance of Gods righteousness and mans according to the nature of both as in the first Creation God is revealed in the Law to be one God and only to be worshiped and no other Gods but one and man is revealed in his first created righteousness love thy neighbour as thy self The Law is in every one by nature accusing and excusing and Gods transcribing it into tables of stone was to set before man a testimony or witness in the letter of what Law he had inwardly the Law is spiritual and to bear witness to his Apostacy and falling away and to all his sins transgressions and enormities committed Moses and the Prophets were Ministers of it in the letter the Law was given by

Moses it being first delivered or preached by the Ministry of Angels or dispensation of Angels the Lord Jesus himself and the Apostles were clearer and more spiritual Ministers of it The Law as it is in letter and in the Ministry of Moses and the Prophets and Christ c. is a witness and image to the more excellent Law that of the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ The Law in meer letter and legal ministry works bondage and brings forth the spirit of bondage in those who are under the Law working convictions and testimonies of good and evil whereby the law of nature is awakened and strengthned to accuse sinful flesh The Law as it is a figure or shadow or image of Spirit or spiritual righteousness may be a Ministry of preparation or witness as John was prepare ye the way and the Baptism of water to an outward purification or washing as the letter or Ministry of the Law is and this is a Ministry of Gods first appearance to a sinner Men may work very high as to God and duties and works by the Ministry of the law or letter without and the law within and the letter of Scriptures interpreted by no higher a light then that of the law and yet all such righteousness is but to bondage compared with the higher law or Spirit of life The Law cur●eth all unrighteousnessas to the fleshor man sinning and it is thatstanding condemnation offlesh or sin the Law was revealed because of transgression and cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Law All the repentance and reformation which the Law or meer ministry of the letter works is not spiritual but legal and yet if in order to a more spiritual or to Christ in Spirit it is of the nature of Johns Ministry a preparatory and figure of more glory and truth in substance The spiritual man who lives in the Spirit is not under the meer law of the letter but it is according to its spirituality the principle and spirituall life of him so as such are not under the Law but under Grace and not in bondage and feare but love perfect love casting out feare They that are true spirituall comprehensive Christians know in what order and subserviency to place the law as it is in a ministery of letter when as the Infant Christian in the first discovery of Christ or Free Grace looks upon all Ministrations below him as legall and so is carried out to oppose them too disorderly A Discovery of duties and works SOme say that duties and works are fruits of faith and of the habits of grace in us and are the conformity of a Christian to the Commandments and Laws of God revealed in Scriptures and that duties are to be done because commanded and that they are such ways and means as God hath appointed a Christian to walk in to salvation and that according as these are performed more or less strictly a Christian ought to judge himself or approve himself and that Christians are to wait upon God in duties for the Spirit and for all other discoveries of himself thus the Protestant in general Others say that the duties and works of a Christian flow from the Spirit of God of love and of adoption else they are but the performances and obedience of servants not of sons and such as are born of God That the meer Commandments or letter of Scripture is not a law to a Christian why he should walk in duties but the law written in our hearts the law of life and this is the difference of duties and performances under the meer Old-Testament-dispensation and the New or pure Gospel or new Covenant the one or that of Moses was a Ministery from without that of Christ from within and that duties in the letter are but Images and figures of what the spirituall man doth act from that life of Christ in him not as things commanded him nor in relation to heaven and hell because such obedience and actings are of service and acted as first from without and mercenary or of price and for salvation A Discovery of outward Ordinances SOme say outward Ordinances are Commands of Christ and therefore to be done because they are Commands and that they are sanctified by God and his Spirit and that we are to waite on God in the use of means and that spirituall things are conveighed by Ordinances into the souls of men thus says the Protestant generally Others say That outward Ordinances as in the letter are the Old Testament Ministration or a Legal ministration of Johns ministry or Christ under the Law or in flesh and that such Ordinances as the Lord Jesus commanded while he was in the Ministery of the Law made under the Law a minister of circumcision and not commands of Christ as in meer glory and spirit nor a ministration of his as in that more excellent condition and the not distinguishing Christ as in flesh and so teaching and commanding and as in Spirit and so ministring in pure spiritual light and glory is the reason of all such legal doctrine and use of ordinances in bondage as is this day in the letter Other of Baptism c. or Church-fellowship c. That the new Covenant or God revealed in his and teaching his is not by any outward way or ministry or means but by the inward or unction and anointing ye are all taught of God no man shal teach his neighbor or brother any more saying know the Lord and all conference and discoveries in letter or speech is but meer witnessing to the Lord and the discoveries of God of what we are taught not any ministry as formerly for teaching No outward ordinance or ministration of the creature or of letter can convey or confer or bring in pure spiritual things there is a great mistake in that and they are but signs and shadows of spiritual things and they are to the Spirit in the New Testament as the shadows of the Old were to the flesh of Christ figures and perishing things and to be fulfilled in Spirit and in the coming of Spirit They are that which are called the beholding God as in a glass the seeing darkly and in part the heavens and earth which are to be rolled up as a garment A discovery of the Jews and their conversion SOme say they are those who are of the seed of Abraham and have Abraham to their Father and are Jews by fleshly birth and such as live yet in the Old Testament Laws and Priviledges as circumcision and have the vail upon their hearts un-taken away opposing Christ come in the flesh and expecting the Messiah yet in a more carnall glory they shall be converted and called in before the coming of Christ in Judgement Others say That the Jews were but a figure