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spirit_n	body_n	life_n	power_n	6,331	5	4.8831	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60666	The work of Gods power in man with something that the spirit of truth leads to practise, and what it leads to deny ... / W.S.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4346; ESTC R19003	14,538	19

must arise and depart if ever you come to find rest in Christ And this is a truth which many can witnesse this day who sometimes were like-minded with you and did apprehend that they were that which indeed they were not when the mighty day of the Lord broke forth in them they were made sensible of the sparks of their own kindling and the light of their ovvn fire in vvhich they vvere vvalking and vvere made to cry unto the Lord in bitternesse of spirit vvho appeared to be a God gracious and merciful to them and vvith the Arm of his Power plucked them as brands out of that fire and in judgement and mercy hath gathered them into his own Covenant and in what principle stands your fellowship if it stand not in the Light Or can there be any true fellowship but in the Light Must there not be a perfect principle where there is a perfect unity And is not the Light of Christ perfect And must not the heart mind and soul be bound together in the Light if there be perfect unity Was the Saints unity and fellowship in any other principle Or did they hold forth unity vvith such as did not vvalk in the Light Or did they not labour to gather them into their principle and so into their fellowship That ye may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. Here vvas their fellowship in the Truth Light Life and Power of God and they did not say that they had fellovvship vvith such as were not in the Truth but they held forth the Truth that such as vvere out of the Truth might be gathered into the Truth and come into fellovvship vvith us Mark not that ye have fellovvship vvith us or vve vvith you vvhere you are but that ye may have fellovvship vvith us and this was true love in the Saints to such as were contrary-minded yet not such a love as could close in unity but such a love as did manifest pity and it is the same unto you this day For the Lord knows the labour and travel of all his faithful Servants Ministers and Messengers whom he hath raised in the power of his life to preach the everlasting Gospel upon whom the glory of his Life resteth how that they have not done his Work negligently but have run to and fro in the movings of his power to declare his everlasting Truth that all might be gathered to the Truth and come into fellowship in the Truth knowing in the counsel of the Lord vvhose servants they are that no perfect unity or fellovvship can be held in any other principle and they have never denied fellovvship vvith any that have come to their principle if it vvas in never so little a measure if it vvas in the Light and Truth they could have unity vvith them there yea vvith the vveakest breathing and lovvest desire after the Truth their souls have ever rejoiced to meet vvith any there and their love and tenderness have ever been abundantly manifested to all simple hearted ones though in practise they have lien different from them at present for they have fell to the Seed where it hath been and in tender compassion hath ever been ready to help and relieve the distressed but they could never speak peace to the oppression and God doth abundantly reward them for their service and labour of love and by the mighty Power of God through their Ministry many sons and daughters are come to glory who are in perfect love peace and unity together and established in everlasting righteousness in the unchangeable Seed of God So all must come to the Power of God that come unto perfect unity otherwise they are but in the changeable nature and in the changeable unity but where the power is submitted unto it works out the changeable nature of the flesh and raises the unchangeable nature of the Lamb and gathers the heart mind and soul into union with him and so makes a compleat and perfect body in his compleat and perfect life where all drinks into one spirit and feeds upon one bread And here the unity is held in the Spirit and it is sealed in the bond of peace Therefore feel the power of God in your selves that your minds be subjected into stilness and quietness for you are too full of business always thronging and cumbring your selves about many things which draweth you from the one thing which should make you happy Oh that you would once hearken and obey How well would it be with you to what it is For really there is a pity reacheth to you and many sad complaints are taken up for you considering what longings and pantings there hath been in many of you after God Oh remember the years past when your visitation was upon you and the springings of God's love was fresh in you then were you broken and melted and humbled before the Lord and you had a fervent zeal for God according to what you knew the day-star did rise unto you but you was not acquainted with it nor did not understand that it would have led you where the young child was and so not regarding you lost the sight of it and turned your faces towards the West where the Sun setteth in obscurity Oh! shall you not be lamented because of this yea surely you are and through the lamentation there is compassion to that which first breathed in you and through the compassion there is judgement issues forth to that Spirit which hath betrayed you and here I may include all such as have lost their first Love whether by apprehending Christ without them or within them for there stands the Traytor in all to draw the mind into apprehensions and conceivings and so from waiting upon God in the principle of his Light and Life there to be kept in the fresh sense and feeling of the pleasant streams that issue from the fulness and so to grow and encrease through the virtue and nourishment thereby received and how hath apprehensions and conceivings come over that sweet dispensation of Love yea and Life in measure which in years past was felt by many And how doth death reign in them And how is the precious Seed of God oppressed Oh that you would consider whoever you are that have let in apprehensions and conceivings of Christ whether you apprehend him without you or within you the birth of his life you do not know in that state for none can compass his pure life by any apprehension therefore let all cease from their apprehensions and conceivings and with the power of God silence all flesh and wait to feel the Work of the power in you and be faithful to the power and then you will know Christ of whom you speak and dare speak no more then what you can witness nay nor that neither but as the life moveth to do it for what good doth all your words that you speak with the old

THE WORK OF Gods Power in Man WITH Something that the Spirit of Truth leads to practise and what it leads to deny Given forth in love to the Seed that yet lies in bondage under the Works of darkness that all who are professing God and Christ in words and observing forms out of the power may behold the work of the power and that such amongst them who breaths after God may be informed into the right way and come into unity and fellowship with the Saints in Light who in the power inherit the blessing The way of God is not as the way of man Therefore let all consider their way W. S. LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. The Work of God's Power in Man c. MAn being fallen and degenerated from the Life and Power of God in which he was created good he is become an evil-worker filled with evil thoughts words and deeds his heart and mind unclean defiled and poluted his soul burthened oppressed and afflicted and here man lies in the mire of uncleanness and there is not a whole part in him but wheresoever he lieth down he defiles himself and yet in this state he would be comprehending God and Christ and in his fallen wisdom would be applying the benefits of Christ for his comfort and satisfaction not at all considering that he is alienated from God by evil works nor regarding the power of God in himself by which the evil works are destroyed for of a truth man must be changed by the power of God if ever he come to be truly happy that nature must be killed which is alive and that must be quickned and raised which is in death or man cannot inherit the Kingdom of God therefore all ye that professe God and Christ and Christianity and are not yet changed into the nature of that which ye do profess consider seriously this short Testimony unto the Power of God and the Work of it in man 1. There is a time in which God visiteth the sons and daughters of men for he beholds all people in the fall out of the right way and his tender compassion moveth and his love openeth and with the Light of his Life he lets man see the evil of his doings for it is a certain truth that the love of God is tendered unto man in the Light which doth discover his sin and that is the day of his Visitation wherein God willing to make known his loving-kindness unto man he sends his only begotten Son who is the true Light that all in him might belive and all by him might come to life and seeing that man ennot hide any thing so secretly but that something in him doth find it out then let him believe that it is of God which so discovers his secret intents for it is God that searcheth the heart and there is not another way that leadeth unto life but the Light which from the Life is made manifest for Christ is the Light the Way the Truth and the Life and all other ways lead from the Truth and from the Life and whosoever rejects the Light they reject the Love of God the way to God and the Truth of God and so rejects Christ by whom they should come to God for Christ is the way to God and there is ●ot another and his Light is manifest from the Love and Life ●o● God to convince every man that in sin abideth And this is the time of convincing 2. There is a time when man comes so to be smitten by the Light of Christ in his Conscience as that he is brought to stand still and consider his way and with the Light he comes to see the evil of his doings and there he feels the Light to be a Witness against him and a Reprover of him and so comes to be made sensible of his own wretchedness and misery and to feel the burden lie upon him and the sin every way to beset him and then the cry rises in him Who shall deliver me from the body of sin and death Then he begins to look who shall appear for him and help him in his distress and who shall deliver him out of the trouble and affliction wherein he lies his sin is now his burden and that which he hath had pleasure in is loathsome to him and he groans under the weight of it and travels in pain in the sence of great oppression and here he is compassed about with grief trouble and sorrow all his sins come up in order before him and the Light of Christ stands a Witness against him and executes Judgement upon him and he knows not which way to look for comfort he feels the hand of God correcting him and the stripes to fall upon him and which way soever he would escape he is pursued peace he cannot come unto rest he cannot find and so is made willing to fall into the hand of God seeing that all his own strength cannot help him and without Christ appear for his redemption he is miserable for ever and so the Candle of the Lord being lighted in man he comes to see every corner of his own House and all secret things that have been wrought and acted in darkness they all come into his view and there man sees himself defiled poluted and unclean and sees that no unclean thing can enter into the Kingdom of God and so he begins to abhor himself and come to repentance for all the evil that he hath done and the sin that he hath committed and begins to wait in the Light to receive power over his corruptions and so comes to hearken to the voice which reproves him which is the voice of Christ and begins to regard when reproof comes and there his heart comes to be touched with the power of Christ and with the power is turned from the evil unto the good And this is the time of Conversion 3. There is a time when the Power works Redemption by drawing and leading man out of the sin and so he comes to forsake the evil of his own way and the devices of his own heart and begins to feel the power working in him and redeeming him out of those things wherein he hath lived to himself and deaths shadow begins to be broken and the life begins to rise and come up into some liberty and then man knows his Redeemer lives and the Power gives him ease where he hath been burdened and sets him free where he hath been captivated and so the Power helps him where he cannot help himself and delivers him where he cannot deliver himself and the Power strikes over that Nature in Judgement in which sin is conceived and nourished and so makes man conformable to the death of Christ and brings him into fellowship with his sufferings and so he is made one with Christ in his death and sufferings by which he comes to the virtue of his resurrection and there his death and sufferings is known by passing through the