Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	death_n	life_n	wage_n	10,497	5	10.9120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89844	The power and glory of the Lord shining out of the north, or The day of the Lord dawning: wherein the true light is holden forth to all who desire to walk in the day. With a warning to the people of England of all sorts, not to oppose Christ in his kingdom. Shewing also the way how all flesh comes to know the Lord and fear him, by his terrible shaking the earthly part in man, witnessed by the holy men of God in Scripture. With a word to the serpents seed, or ministers of Antichrist, or man of sin, wherever he is found. By one whom the Lord hath called out of this dark world, into the true light, whom Ismaels brood calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing N302; Thomason E711_2; ESTC R207117	21,947	29

your backs on it for when you should bring your works to it to be proved then you joyn with the deceit to make covers for your sins and hide them lest they should come to the light and be made manifest and this is the cause why you stumble because you walk not in the light for your evil deeds will not abide the light the Adulterer loves the night and Iob 24. 15. and 16. the thief loves the night and the drunkard loves the night and all the children of darkness love the night that they may 1 Thes 5. 7. bring forth their evil deeds unreproved And here thou art who lovest thy sins and here wilt thou be found profess what thou wilt for the day will throughly declare thee what thou art for now is the day of the Lord which will judge thee as thou art neer at hand and wo to thee that hidest thy sins and coverest chine iniquities thou maist hide it from men and make men believe thou art a Christian but God will not be mocked for above all he abhors the Eph. 5. 8. hypocrite and dissembler wherefore take heed and turn from your deceit and come forth you children of darkness and come into the light where there is no occasion of stumbling and make it appear you are children of the light by loving it and make it appear you love the light by bringing your deeds to it to be proved that all your works may be works of the light that your light may shine forth before all men in your works and that true Judgment may be set up in you and all unrighteousness condemned and cast out and truth received in that the truth may make you free for while you joyn with the deceit Ioh. 8. 32 34. you consent to keep your sins and while you commit sin you are the servants of sin and the wages of sin is death and death reigns in you because you will not come to Christ who Ioh. 3. 19. is the light that you may have life and your destruction is of your selves and God is just and your condemnation is this that light is come into the world and you love darkness rather then light because your deeds are evil and this is that grace of God that hath appeared to all men which is the Saints Teacher and teacheth them to deny-ungodliness and Tit. 2. 11 12. worldly lusts which you that live in your lusts turn into wantonness and will not be taught by it and here you read your Iude 4. condemnation in every sin you commit O you people of England how long will it be ere you be obedient to the Kingdom of Iesus Christ how long will you profess him in words and forms and yet will not own him in power you can be content to let him have the name of a 1 Cor. 4. 20. King so that you your selves may raign and under the name of Christs Kingdom act your own wills and though you cannot Tit. 1. 16. bear it to be Judged by the Spirit of Christ where it is in his people which judgeth all the world and all things yet 1 Cor. 2. 15. you cannot escape for you shall be found guilty before the mighty Judge of Heaven and Earth when he shall appear in flames of fire to be avenged upon all deceipt and unrighteousness of men And will you be found at that day 1 Pet. 5. 3. Subjects in the Kingdom of Christ wherein all the Saints are one and Christ their head and Law-giver or are you not Lords over Gods heritage yea over Christ himself and you will appear such when the mysterie of iniquity shall be revealed Mat. 28. 20. in you you who ought to make it your whole care to observe the Law of Christ in all things that he commands as a Rule for you to walk by but are you in your duty as servants to Christ when you are prescribing him ways to walk by in his Church And is it not so when you would limit him to speak only by such as you in your wisdom approve of or else he shall be silent and to effect this are all the powers of the earth combined together do not you here take upon you to be Lords of the vineyard and not servants and would not Mat. 21. 23. to the end suffer him to send forth Labourers into it who is Lord of it Is not this the way to make the heritage your own hath not all the persecutions of the messengers of God arisen from this ground And how many times have earthly powers been 2 Chron. 36. 16. broken to pieces against this Rock And do you walk according to the Scriptures which you say is your rule when you would limit the Spirit of the Lord not to speak in his own time and in what place soever they who have the message are Amos 7. 13. sent into you who are offended because the Lord sends his Messengers into your Idol Temples to cry against your Idol Act. 5. 19 20 worships and Heathenish customs and to call out poor ignorant people from amongst you which have been long deceived Act. 17. 2 3. by their blind guides And to call them out of forms and likenesses into the substance of all worships which is only in Spirit and not in Forms and Customs and outside observations Ioh. 4. 21 22 23 24 that they may come to know what they worship even the living God that their souls may live which was the way by which the Apostles did gather the Saints out of all the Idols Temples and Carnal worships into the Spirit as you may read in the Scripture And this with you is a transgression of your Law and you say it breeds distraction in your Churches but what Churches are they which will be so soon distracted and what people are those Churches made up of who no sooner hear one deliver the Lords Message in a peaceable way but they are all on fire beating buffetting cursing swearing and haling them to prison and were you not blind you might plainly see what generation these are who are and always have been offended at the will of God Is it not the love of God to souls to send to call them who will hear his voice out of such Churches as are thus acted by a Spirit of envy rage and murther which is the spirit of the Devil and this is that Spirit which being offended sets the Creatures one to destroy another least his deceipt should be revealed and are you not blinde who cannot distinguish of that spirit which acts in the persecutor and that Spirit which acts in the sufferer and hath so done in all Ages and come out from amongst them And what Law is that which you say is transgressed by the creature being obedient to the Creator obeying the voice of Christ witnessed in the Scripture by the practise of the holy men of God sent out

will it be ere you cease to pervert the ways of God for your own ends Oh that you had eyes to see that you might make peace with him least he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver ANd now to you poor scattered sheep who have been scattered by these hirelings in this cloudy dark day which hath been upon all flesh spred upon the face of the earth and you have been running from mountain to hill to find the Lord but have not found him who is to give rest to your souls And many of you are still wandring you know not where Others have seated themselves under green trees and are worshipping you know not what but as others tell you who know as little of the true and living God as your selves Others are weary with seeking where nothing can be found and are fallen asleep in the world of ease and carelesness others have their ears open to all voices which cry lo here lo there but know not who to trust being all in confusion now all awake to meet the Lord who is arisen to seek and save and gather into one fold all his scattered ones and to bring them up to Zion the holy City where he will feed them himself alone without fear in good pasture where they shall lie down in peace now come off from all your blinde guides that are not in the way themselves nor can they direct others where the way is come out of the world and worldly cares and pleasures and return to the Lord in Spirit he is within you and there if you wait in Spirit you shall hear him speak to your spirits to the directing your minds out of all the works of darkness and sin up to God where no sin is nor unclean thing can come and if you minde to obey his voice he will teach you to lay aside all your dissembling hypocrisie whereby you have deceived your selves and others professing godliness in words but denying it in power and you will finde power given in from the Lord to become what you profess in reality and truth and to profess no more but what you are that God may have glory by you and take delight to dwell in you for this is the day of your visitation if you will own it the day of Salvation from all sin and unrighteousness the day wherein all the children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be their peace in righteousness shall they be established and they shall be far from oppression Isa 54. 13 14. Many of you have had great travel and gone through many sorrows to finde rest but have found none many prayers and tears but no answer of peace many days of seeking but have not found him whom your souls thirst after and all this because you have been seeking the living among the dead he is not to be found in the world nor formal worships nor in humane wisdom and learning but he is only to be found as he reveals himself freely to those who patiently wait for him in spirit Dear People to you that love the Lord above all earthly things and yet have not your minds directed where to wait for him to you I speak to your souls that lie in death till they hear the voice of the Son of God he is near you who is the way to the Father look not out he is within you that which I know declare I unto you and the way I know where I have found my beloved my Saviour my Redeemer my Husband my Maker who hath set me above all the world my sins my fears my sorrows my tears into his love to live with him in Spirit for ever but dying daily to all visible things praises praises to my Father for ever The night is far spent the day is at hand come out of darkness all that love the Lord into his marvellous light where you shall see what you have been and what you are redeemed from that you may live and praise the Lord for it is the living that praise the Lord and not the dead Arise come out of death come away and let us rejoyce together in his love in the life of our king even so Amen And you that are so much offended at perfection and being cleansed from sin I leave these Queries with you to consider 1. Whether any unperfect one committing sin be the Image of God yea or no 2. Whether any can witness the work of Redemption compleat in them by Christ while they commit sin and are overcome with the temptation of the Devil yea or no 3. Whether any unperfect and unclean one that lives in sin shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven yea or no and if not how shall one dying in sin and where shall he be made perfect and clean seeing the tree must lie as it falls and whether you own a Purgatory yea or no 4. Whether a Christian have ground to believe that he may be recovered by the second Adam into that estate in which he was created and which he lost in the first Adam yea or no 5. Whether God created man and woman perfect without sin and able in his power so to have stood if they had not forsaken his power and consented to the wisdom of the Serpent yea or no 6. Whether God and man be wholly reconciled till man be brought into that estate again yea or no 7. Whether all those that both by their life and doctrine labour to perswade people to abide in that condition of sin imperfection and separation from God which Christ came to destroy and so to unite man to God again be not Ministers of Antichrist and for the upholding of the Kingdom of the Devil yea or no FINIS