Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	death_n	life_n	separation_n	5,892	5	10.4670	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91099	A call out of Egypt, (where death and darkness is) into the glorious light and liberty of the sons of God, (where life and peace is.) The Lord fulfilling his promises declared by his holy prophets and Apostles, in these later dayes.	Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.	1656 (1656)	Wing P378; Thomason E893_3; ESTC R204837	32,992	47

Wrath Malice Pride Lust and Covetousnesse Murders Theft evil surmisings these and such like are works of the Devil Plants of his planting and these do defile a man and separates him from his Maker And as the Devils work is within in the heart and pollutes the heart so must the work of Christ be witnessed in the heart for the purifying and cleansing and destroying of the Devils works and so to make the body a fit Temple for himself to dwell in And this is the work of the Lord and it is marvellous in our eyes he is gathering his people into union and fellowship with himself breaking the bond of iniquity and letting the oppressed go free purifying and purging them with the Spirit of Judgment and of burning trying them as gold and silver is tryed that so his people may be a holy and a peculiar people a people in whom he will be glorified by a pure and a godly conversation who shall bring forth much fruit to his glory who hath redeemed them from the earth and from their vain and ungodly conversation We who were gone astray and wandring as Sheep without a Shepherd and were by nature the children of Wrath even as well as others hath the Lord wonderfully wrought his own work in us and called us out of death and darknesse into righteousnesse and peace to bring forth fruits of the Spirit love joy peace long-suffering gentlenesse goodnesse meeknesse temperance sobernesse and vertue and hath shed abroad his love in our hearts and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation to Minister unto others who sit in the shadow of death that you all may turn and repent and come into the way of life that your souls may live in which way the ungodly cannotwalk though it be a plain way that fools shal not enter therein yet the unclean cannot passe over it and this is the new and living way that leads to life eternal even Jesus Christ the onely begotten of the Father who is given of the Father freely for a Covenant of Light to enlighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of his people who is the alone way unto the Father as it is testified of him I am the Way the Truth a●d the Life and there is no man can come to the Father but by me I am the door and he that enters not in by the door is a thief and a Robber Now people every where who professe your selves to be Christians and Christ to be your way see if your lives be answerable to your profession for this I do declare from the Lord that no ungodly one can walk in this way Come and let us reason together you will all confesse with me that Christ is pure holy and righteous and he is the way to the Father and no other way then what way are the ungodly in who live in pride and covetousnesse envy wrath and malice you that live in the lusts of the flesh and the pleasures and hope of the world are you in Christ the way surely no you do but deceive your selves to think that you are in the way to salvation when you are going on the broad way to condemnation for Christ speaks of another way which all who live in sin are walking in They enter not in by the door but are climbing up another way building up Babel a Tower to reach up to heaven but the foundation is sandy and will not stand who are sayers and not doers and are in their sins alive in their old cross and perverse nature and so are one of Christ the way for if any man be in Christ he is a new Creature old things are passed away and behold all thingt are become new Minde this well all things are become new it is not reforming of some things and departing with some of your sins but all the old lusts must be denied all your old wayes and your old vain heathenish customs the old man must be wholly put off and the new man Christ Jesus put on Therefore cease from the evil of your wayes and put away lying and speak truth one to another and leave off your prophane Swearing and let your yea be yea and your nay nay for whatsoever is more is evil and out of the Doctrine of Christ and lay aside all Envie and Malice and all vain and needlesse Discourse which tends not to the Glory of God nor to edification of one another and let your words be few and in the fear of the Lord and put off all your Pride and lay down your Crowns at the feet of Jesus and learn humility and the fear of the Lord that your feet may be guided out of the pathes of death and from all unrighteousnesse and disobedience where the Curse of God is that you may walk in the way of the Lord and in his pure fear to stand in awe of him that so your hearts may be purified and your consciences purged from dead works to serve the Lord in the new life with a pure and a perfect heart that into his Covenant of life and peace where the blessing is you may all be led and eat the Bread of Life at the Table of the Lord that your souls may live and praise the Lord for evermore Written in love to all Souls that out of sin they may come and worship God in Spirit By a Servant of Chrict Alex. Parker To all the Beloved Ones who are of the Royal Seed whose faces be turned tovvards Sion Greeting DEarly beloved Friends you whom the Lord hath Visited in his Love and hath called you out of darknesse and your former vain Conversation into his marvelous Light and glorious Liberty of the Sons of God when many thousands are left in blindnesse and hardnesse of heart ful of envie and rage shut up in darknesse being alienated from the life of God and strangers from the Covenant of Promise Oh prize his love unto you a Remnant of despised ones yet beloved of God who hath called you with an holy Calling and separated you from the world of ungodly men that you may be a holy and a peculiar people without spot or wrinckle that you may be presented pure and perfect unto God Now my dear friends be valiant for your Freedom and stand in that Liberty wherein Christ hath set you free and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage and the weak and beggarly Elements of the world give not away your strength unto the Harlot though Sinners entice you consent not to them but stand in the counsel of God and keep your habitations dwelling in that which is pure which ye have received from God waiting in patience for power from the Lord to give you a full deliverance over the world and the pollutions and lusts of it that over it you may raign and all its fading Treasures laying up to your selves Treasures which never sades away durable riches where the Rust and Moth cannot come

is done in that state it is no more but a Garment of Fig-Leafs or patching a piece of new cloth in an old Garment it is a false cover which wil not stand in the Fiery day and this was the state of the Scribes and Pharisees who had the Scriptures Moses and the Prophets words and were painted over with good words but had not the Word of God abiding in them so they were strangers to the Life and Power of God and they did not believe in the Light Jesus Christ who was the sum of all that which they upheld which were but types and shadows and figures of him who was the Substance and therefore Christ the Light cryed wo unto them calling them Hypocrites whited Walls painted Sepulchres Serpents Generation of Vipers who shut up the kingdom of heaven against men neither going in themselvs nor suffers others And these were of the great men of the world and learned men Doctors and chief Priests and the learned Rabbies yet for all this their learning they knew not Christ but called him a blasphemer and those that did believe on him were called a cursed people that knew not the Law Thus in all Ages profession was blind who were not guided by the Light of Christ as it was then it is now all the world Professors Priests and People who deny the Light of Christ and are not guided by it all their Prayers and Sacrifices is abomination and stincks in the Nostrils of the pure God iniquity being found within and regarded in their hearts this will be the Sentence from the Righteous God Go ye Cursed Workers of Iniquity depart from me into everlasting Fore pre●a●ed for the Devil and his Angels And here lies the world in wickednesse and though many have long been seeking after God yet have not found him because they have been seeking the living among the dead and though many have long been talking of the name of God and of Christ yet few there be that walk in the living way and live the pure life of Christ but Iniquity doth daily abound in the Nation amongst those that professe God and that Pride and Envie and Wrath Strife and Debate Covetousnesse Cruelty Tyranny and Oppression Drunkennesse Lying foolish Jesting vain Sporting and Pleasures that the Lands mourns and the whole Creation groans with the Bondage of Corruption and the Name of the Lord is daily dishonored by this wicked and untoward Generation of Professors both Priests and People all are out of the pure Path in the hypocrisie making a shew of Godlinesse and drawing neer to God with their lips and with their mouths but their hearts are far from him and their Sacrifices and Prayers are as Cains Sacrifice who murdered his Brother So these who live in Envy and Wrath and false Accusing Back-biting Slandering and Persecuting and Reproaching the Innocent harmlesse Lambs of Christ and so are found in the same nature with Cain for saith the Apostle He that hateth his Brother is a Murderer and no Murderer hath Eternal Life abiding in him And here all who are not wilfully blind may see the National and Parish-Teachers in the nature of Cain in envy and so not accepted of God and all that uphold them they are seen in the Light of the Lord Jesus to be blind and are led by the blind and both are going into the Ditch who have turned from the measure of God the Light that did and doth convince and reprove for sin and evil and are soared up in the air climbing up another way But if ever you know God or true peace to your souls back you must come to that which doth reprove and trouble for sin that must speak peace if ever you know peace and that will not speak peace to any who lives in sin but he that fears God and departs from Iniquity and waiteth upon God shall finde Peace and Rest to his Soul Therefore all people whatsoever who read these Lines seriously consider your wayes and no longer follow the Parish-Priests who preach for hire and seek gain from their quarter and through feigned words and covetousnesse make merchandise of your souls they were never sent of God and therefore they shall not profit you Cease from them all and wait on the Lord in the Light of his Son Jesus and learn of him who is meek and low in Spirit and you shall finde rest to your souls But while you live in your sins there is no rest as saith the Prophet There is no peace to the wicked but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength for the Lord is come in power and great glory and is fulfilling his promise made of old pouring forth his spirit upon his Sons and Daughters and they shall be all taught of God a●d in righteousness shall they be established and shall be far from Opprrssion and no worker of Iniquity nor any unclean thing can enter into the Covenant of God for this is the Covenant of the Lord I will write my Law in their hearts and put my spirit in their inward parts and they shall no more teach every man his Neighbor nor every man his Brother saying Know the Lord for all shall know me from the least to the greatest and I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more saith the Lord And this is our God fulfilling in these our dayes his own Glory to whom be everlasting Honor and Dominion for evermore Witnessed by a Servant of the Lord who is come out of Egypt and through the Red-Sea and the Wildernesse and arrived at the Land of Rest whose Name is after the flesh called ALEX. PARKER The Minister of Christ his plea for PURITY against the Ministers of Antichrist and all their Train who plead for sin ALL you that plead for sin whether Priests or People of what sort soever who make a profession of the name of God and of Christ and yet live in sin and plead for sin and sayes none can be free from sin or perfect from sin while they live upon the earth all your talking and outside customary worship is in vain and is no more but your own self-righteousnesse which is filthy and abominable and it will never bring peace to your souls nor you can never be reconciled to God as long as you live in sin that 's the cause of seperation from God your sins your sins have separated between you and me saith the Lord and as long as sin stands the Partition wall stands for it stands betwixt you and the Lord and there is no Union nor Fellowship with God nor with his Son as long as you live in sin but aliens you are and strangers from the pure God and the life of his Son J●sus And you that plead so strongly for sin you plead for the Devil whose servants you are as long you live in sin and you are the Antichrists that are against Christ