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A35836 The discovery of the great enmity of the serpent against the seed of the woman, which witnesseth against him where he rules, both in rulers, priests, and people whose hearts are now made manifest in this great day of the Lords power, wherein he is sending his sons and daughters in the power of his spirit to run to and fro to declare his word ... / a true testimony of him the world knows by name, William Deusbery, and in scorn calls a Quaker ... ; also his call to the ministry of the everlasting Gospel by the still voyce of the spirit of God ... ; the word of the Lord to all in England whom the Lord hath betrusted with power ... ; vvith a lamentation over all in England who oppose Christ in his spiritual appearance ... ; from the common goal in Northampton the 25 day of the 4 month, 1655. Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688. 1655 (1655) Wing D1265; ESTC R207336 26,718 32

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observations so in all these my turnings in my carnall wisdom seeking the Kingdom of God in observations without thither the flaming sword turned which kept the way of the tree of life and fenced me from it and cut me down and rent all my fig-leave coverings and neuroyed that minde that looked out to seek the Kingdom of Heaven in observations or to hearken any more to hear the word of the Lord from man then my mind was turned within by the power of the Lord to wait in his counsel the light in my conscience to hear what the Lord would say And the word of the Lord came unto me and said put up thy sword into thy scabard if my Kingdom were of this world then would my children fight knowes● thou not that if I need I could have twelve legions of Angels from my Father which word enlightned my heart and discovered the mystery of iniquity and that the Kingdom of Christ was within and the enemies was within and was spiritual and my weapons against them must be spirituall the power of God Then I could no longer fight with a carnall weapon against a carnall man for the dead letter which man in his carnall wisdom called the Gospel had deceived me but then the Lord discovered to me the deceits of all these men in England that were seeking the Kingdom of Heaven in outward observations And the messenger of the Covenant forth of his mouth proceeded the two edged sword with which he slayes his enemies cut me down and caused me to yeeld in obedience to put up my carnall sword into the seabbard 〈◊〉 leave ●●e Army Then I returned to my outward habitation and calling I had in the world and there laboured with my hands my mind being turned within to wait upon the Lord in the way of his judgements and this I witnesse the administration of Moses in which Cain is banished Es●u rep obated Phar●oh plagued the first born of Egyp● slain and my wi●l brought in subjection for the Lord to do with me what his will was if he condemned he might and if he saved me it were his free love and in this condemned estate I lay crying in the depth of misery without any hopes of deliverance by any thing I could do to pacifie the wrath of God till the administration of the Prophets that witnessed to my soul therewhere free redemption laid up for me in the Lord Jesus and by the power of the word of their testimony there was a secret hope raised up in me to wait for his coming there I waited till the administration of 〈◊〉 and I witnesse that of all that is born of a woman there is 〈◊〉 ●●reater then Iohn for he is a burning and a shining light who discovered more of the mystery of iniquity in me in his administration and the sence of my condition was more manifest the cry of my condemned soul was great and could not be satisfied I breathed and thirsted after Christ to save me freely through his blood or I perished for ever and in this condemned estate I lay waiting for the coming of Christ Jesus who in the appointed time of the father appeared to my soul as the lightnings from the E●st to the West and my dead soul heard his voyce and by his voyce was made to live who created me to a lively hope and sealed me up in the everlasting Covenant of life with his blood then I witnessed the wages of sin and death and the gift of God eternal life through Jesus Christ my Lord and I witnessed according to testimony of Scripture death reigns over all from Adam to Moses and Moses untill the Prophets and the Prophets untill Iohn and from this day the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force there is no rest to the soul till Christ bee manifest and this the Scripture witnesseth and I witnesse these Scriptures fulfilled in mee in the year according to the account 1645. The witnesses that stood before the God of the earth and had power to plague the earth having finished their testimony the 〈◊〉 ascends out of the bottomlesse pit and makes war against 〈◊〉 and kill them and their dead bodies lay in the stree● of the great Citty spirituall Sodom and Aegypt where our Lord was crucified and this Scripture was fulfilled in me in the year according to account 1648. Then Kindreds tongues and the Nations of the earth made merry over the witnesses and I see the abomination that maketh desolate which is spoken of by Daniel the Prophet standing in the holy place where it ought not and then was I led by the Spirit into the wildernesse and tempted of the Devill that the Scripture might be fulfilled Luke 4.1 In that day and hour of temptation which was in the time as the lines following giveth testimony I witnessed these Scriptures fulfilled in me of Pauls condition wherein he complained as I then did who found a law in my members warring against the Law of my mind that when I would do good evil was present with m● the sence of which caused me to cry Oh wretched man that 〈◊〉 who shall deliver me from the body of this death And as 〈◊〉 crying to the Lord to free me from the burthen I groaned under the word of the Lord came unto me saying My grace is sufficient for thee I will deliver thee and by the power of his word I was armed with patience to wait in his counsel groaning under the body of sin in the day and hour of temptation untill it pleased the Lord to manifest his power to free me which was in the year according to the account 1651. The spirit of life from God entred into the witnesses and they stood upon their feet then great fear fell upon all that saw them and the Temple of God was opened in Heaven and I saw in his Temple the Ark of his Testament and there were lightnings voyces thunder earth-q●akes and great hail then mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and the abomination of the earth which made all Nations drunk with the wine of the wrath of her fornication she was discovered in me and God remembred her when the mighty day of the Lords power was manifest upon her Jesus Christ was revealed from Heaven in flaming fire pouring vials of wrath upon her and rendring vengeance upon all in me that knew him no● and disobeyed his Gospel and purged away the filthy nature that did me imbondage with the spirit of judgement and with the spirit of burning so through the righteous law of life in Christ Jesus I was made free and am from the body of sin and death and through these great tribulations my garment is washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb who
ease was in mourning to a God I knew not nor none could tell mee where I should get acquaintance with him In the place where I was in the outward being in a Town called Allathorp nigh Pocklington in Yorkshire but hearing of a people about Leeds that walked more strictly in profession of the name of God then any did where I was I had no rest in my spirit till my Parents in the flesh sent me thither to be an apprentice not regarding what Calling so I might be amongst those that feared the living God that I might be acquainted with the God of my life who had created me for himself and the desires the Lord raised up in me was answered when I was thirteen yeers old of my naturall birth I was bound an apprentice to a Clo●k-maker in a Town called Holdbeck neer Leeds and as I heard so it was there was much speaking of God which they called preaching and professing him in words from the letter of the Scripture what the Saints had spoken forth so intimating the Saints practice in their carnall wisdom seeking the Kingdom of God in outward observations as I had done before I came there but when I met with none that could tell me what God had done for their soules in redeeming them from the body of sin which I groaned under and separated me from the presence of God though I walked strictly with them in their outward observations running to hear one man after another which they called Ministers yet I found no rest nor peace to my weary soul but the flaming sword the righteous Law of God cryed in me for a perfect fulfilling of the Law of God and did meet with me where-ever I was that I could find no peace in that worship of God the world hath set up as in receiving the bread and wine which they told me was the seals of the Covenant which were long ere I durst receive it because I saw not my self prepared for the evil of my heart stood before me and when I was to receive it I sought the Lord to keep me by his power that I might receive it worthily and when I did receive my desire was the Lord would seale up his love to my soule but I found nothing sealed up to my soul with it Then much fear seized upon my soul for a long time after and Iudas condition was cast into my mind until it were shewed that the seal of the Covenant was the Spirit of Christ and no outward element and the supper was the body and blood of Christ which the world doth not know nor I at that time but was made to wait for the manifestation of it to me Then I durst joyn no more with the world in that practise nor in their practise in singing Davids conditions which they called Psalms for the light in my conscience let me see the evil of my heart that I was not in Davids condition the sence of which stopped my mouth and while they were singing I did mourn and weep for want of the pure spirit that David had that caused him to sing neither could I apply the promises which they told me belonged to me for I found no promise belonging to that nature but the wrath of God abode upon mee for my disobeying his counsel in me the light in my conscience but being ignorant it was his counsell I departed from it and lent my eare to those without that said they spoke from the mouth of the Lord so was deceived and caused to erre by their lies that did draw mee to seek the Kingdom of God in observations without but the word of the Kingdom was in mee and executed the righteous justice of God upon my adulterous heart that took councell and not at his mouth till I was consumed and my body was brought so weak I was not able to answer the expectation of him whom the Lord hath placed me with though my conscience was clear I did what I were able and he in his carnal wisedom thought I were in a consumption and was in mind sometimes to have sent mee away to my friends in the flesh and othersome times he would have the men the world calls Doctours to apply some things to my body for my recovery but I was not free to let them but once for fear of giving them offence for I knew my infirmity was the evil of my heart that separated mee from the presence of my God and how to be freed from it none told me and when I found no help in outward observations in reading praying hearing or meditating of what I heard my sorrow and misery was so great it constrained me to run to those the world calls Ministers and Professours which appeared to me had most acquaintance with God to ask them what I might do to be saved and they spoke smooth things to me to beleeve in the name of Jesus Christ and to apply the promises but that he was to be found within me none told me which added to my sorrow telling me to believe in Christ I knew no● where he was then at that time did the wars begin in this Nation and mine eyes being s●ill abroad to do something in outward observations for my life The men called Ministers cried ●u●se ye Mer●z b●cause they went not forth to help the Lord against the mighty Then I was willing to give my body to death in obedience to my God to f●ee my soule from sin that I might escape the wrath I lay under and get acquaintance with him I j●yned with that little rem●ant which said they fought for the Gospel but when I was amongst them I found as much ignorance of the Gospel as was in th●se I had been with none told me what the Gospel was but the dead letter which is the outward tes●imony and declaration of the Gospel which is Christ who is the glad tidings to sinne●s but they called the dead letter the Gospel as I had heard before so I found no rest to my soul amongst them Then I heard there was in Scotland a refo●med Church who they said walked in the fear of the Lord I journ●yed into that country and to Edenbourgh where I found nothing but formality their Teachers calling to the people to seek the Kingdom of Heaven in outward observations as I had heard in England Then I returned back to England again and went amongst those that called themselves the Church of Christ who is call●d by the names Anabaptists and Independents who were setting up a more glorious image in outward observations and said they were the children of God but I could not joyn with them for the testimony of his love my soul wanted And then the Lord discovered to me that his love could not be attained in any thing I could doe in any of these outward