Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	dead_a	life_n	trespass_n	5,011	5	10.5955	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93423	A few words unto a particular people	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1669 (1669)	Wing S4302; ESTC R184392	6,217	8

Doctrine which by you is held forth and maintained is the same Thirdly That your practise in Burrying Marrying Swearing You to a single person observing Dayes and Times paying Tythes honouring Persons distinction by Titles naming Dayes and Moneths Feasting and needless things about Apparel are the same Now if you cannot prove by plain Scripture that in these things you are the same with such as received Christ's doctrine then it must needs follow that ye live after the flesh and not in the Spirit so if you can make these things good by plain Scripture then you may be further tried and if you cannot then it will plainly appear that you differ from such as received Christ's Doctrine and were his Church and you cannot in honesty deny your error and as for the Papers your publication is still expected as being your proper place to do it and when things are publickly brought forth by your own hands then your matter may either be fully answered or confessed and in the mean time consider patiently whether these things be not worth the mentioning and your diligent observing for if such of you as have any simplicity will be mindfull you may come to know a more excellent Treasure then ye have treasured up and a more comely Garment then ye have put on for your treasure is cankered and your garment moth-eaten and so you dwell with the consumer and not with the preserver Friends If you will own the Scriptures you cannot deny but the Light with which Christ lighteth every man that comes into the world is true and as you are come into the world so a measure of that Light which is true is in you and if you obey another thing you obey that which is false and so are guided by a false Principle and that is your error wherein you resist the Truth for if you were guided with the true Light then all your words and works would be according to the Truth and there you would feel the Cross to your outward liberty and Judgment to take hold upon the Transgressor and so come to be redeemed up to God by the work of his Power for your own wisdom and reasoning strengthneth the Body of sin and death but the power maketh free in the glorious liberty and there is the cross to all fleshly motions and by that the Son comes to be known and life in him and they that have the Son have life and they that have not the Son have not life and such are dead in trespasses and sins and this is unto you that are simple-minded for in true tenderness you are pitied as a people ensnared for in a snare you are taken and held and the King and Queen of Babylon triumph over you Oh that such of you as have been carried away with a strong voice might now hearken to his voice who calls behind you that the Light may become your Leader and Teacher for subtilty hath deceived you and by deceiving hath power to rule over you and if you will not hear when the Lord calleth then when you call he will not answer Friends it is the bread that comes done from Heaven that satisfieth the hungry and that bread you want and satisfies your selves with Earthly vapors and so you lie smothered and seeth not the Son of God and that is certainly your conditions in Captivity and by the Rivers of that Land the true birth sitteth weeping and cannot sing the Lords Songs Nottingham the 3d Moneth 1669. Your Friend in that Love which seeks your Eternal good William Smith THE END