Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	believe_v	faith_n	work_n	4,530	5	5.8487	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63486	A faithful and true witenss to the light of Jesus Christ, or, Word of faith within in the heart and conscience proving that God alwayes did, and doth reveal himself in it, and through it to the sons and daughters of men, that they may believe and be saved ... : also a postscript in answer to some base lyes and reflections cast upon me by William Haworth, an independent preacher / Christopher Taylor.	Taylor, Christopher, ca. 1615-1686.	1675 (1675)	Wing T264; ESTC R25802	11,574	18

against the Evil in all Ages and Generations and for the Good and to every Dispensation and Ministrarion of God that in whatsoever Time they lived they might know how to chuse the Good and refuse the Evil and through this Inward Light Abraham knew the Voice of God that spake to him and that it was the Voice of God and that it was not a Delusion when he was called out of his own Country he had Power waiting upon God in this Principle to try the Spirits and to discern the Voice and Teaching of the true Spirit of God he had no other Teacher but the Lord in this Light and God commanded him to offer up his Son Isaac and he obeyed and had Power so to do in this Light so that the Word of his Faith was nigh him even in his Heart and Mouth to obey the Precepts and Commands of God in it so that Christ was then his Teacher whom he believed in and obeyed and was the Shepherd and Bishop of his Soul whose Day in the Light he saw and rejoyced for God's Manifestations and Heavenly Operations were all then in and through Christ and Salvation then was in him and in no other for God never revealed or wrought any Work without him and the holy Men of God then were made holy by no other Power but the Power of Christ revealed in the Light so that by this Light and the Manifestation of the Spirit within they knew how to distinguish betwixt the true and false Righteousness in all Ages and the true and false Spirit and what they both led and moved unto and so the Holy Men reproved the Wicked in all Ages and were God's faithful Witnesses for they feared him and waited upon him and he poured forth of his Spirit upon them and they received the Gift of it in all Ages so far as God was pleased to make it manifest and they were impowred with it to do the Lord's Will and they were a spiritual People and led by the Manifestation of the Spirit of God in their Wayes and Works and there were spiritual Jews in measure which worshipped God in the Spirit and their Confidence was in God and not in the Flesh or in the Arm of it David in measure knew God's Spirit and Power in that Dispensation and it was the Lord that guided him and conducted him in his going out in his Name against Goliah without Sword or Spear for he went out in the Faith and Strength of God and prevailed and he knew the Lord was with him by the Word of his Faith wherein God shewed him his great Authority and Power which he should stand in and overcome that Goliah and the Spirit of God came upon many and they did and suffered many wonderful Things by the Help and Assistance of God in the Light so that they were Witnesses of the living God and Power of Eternal Salvation or of that Eternal Word that became Flesh so that in those ancient Dayes what God revealed to his People or Prophets it was in the Light within and Principle we now direct People to and never was there any Revelation or Dispensation of God or Operation of his Power but it was in his own Light both before the Law under the Law and in this Day of his more spiritual Appearance and in Christ was the Acceptation in all Ages as People feared God and wrought Righteousness so that they in their Day that worshipped God in the Spirit so far as God was pleased to reveal himself and strictly require of them were accepted and the disobedient rejected and the true Worshippers among the Jews had their Acceptation in Christ whereby they were impowered with a Measure of his Spirit to offer their Hearts to God and when at any Time they offered the Offerings required under that Dispensation with a perfect and true Heart in the Fear and Love of God they were accepted because they rightly and honestly obeyed the Lord in such his Requirings and such grew into further inward Discoveries of the Substance whenas on the contrary they that were sinful and hypocritical though in the Letter and Form of that Worship they might offer and do the same Thing in Shew and Appearance yet it was abominable they not being the true People of God but only made a Shew then of being so were then the hypocritical and false-hearted Jews their Offering and Service not proceeding from a pure but a polluted Mind and Heart rejecting the Counsel of God in the Light or Word of Faith in their Hearts which convinced them of Sin and in which the Lord set before them Life and Death which Counsel they rejected and lived then in the bare Form of Godliness but not in the Power so in that sinful Nature living though in the Dayes of Christ the Pharisees flourished exceedingly in the Profession of that Dispensation of Moses according to the Letter or Form of it that when Christ the Substance came they opposed him and so were made manifest to be of the Devil because they loved their Evil Deeds and hated the Light and in that Mind and State of sinful inward Hypocrisie they did as naturally oppose the Lord Jesus in his Appearance in that Body at Jerusalem as they did that Manifestation of his Appearance in their own Consciences which convinced them of Sin and called them out of it So they that fear'd God in the Dayes of Moses were led within to the Substance of all those Types and Shadows and outward Representations whatsoever and by the Interpretation and Teaching of the Word of Faith in their Hearts they were instructed in the Mystery of Salvation it self the better Hope the Power of God and came to see what those outward Shadows signified under the Law and whereunto they served as Christ said to his Disciples after he had spoken forth Parables to the People they inquiring the Meaning of the Parables To you saith he it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom but to others in Parables So to them under the Law who feared God and attended to the Word of Faith within to them it was given to know the true Meaning of those Types and what they signified and served unto and their true and right Vse and they were his true People then serving the Lord according to the Revelation of his Will under that Dispensation and they were inwardly made Holy by the inward Power of Christ and were accepted there in their Holy and Evangelical Faith and Living so far as the Lord was pleased to open that great Mystery in them and to them for without Faith in Christ then the Substance who was to come in that bodily Appearance at Jerusalem it was as impossible to please God as now and by that Faith they were sav'd and accepted for the bare Observance of the Letter of the Law made nothing Persect Now this is the Sum of what I have to say in this Matter in all Ages and