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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dead_a	life_n	quicken_v	5,491	5	10.4511	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67808	Crooked pathes made straight: or, The wayes of God made knowne to lost sinners, or bewildered saints Wherein is represented the severall conditions of a Christian in the spirit, as hee growes up out of weaknesse into strength, through death into life eternall. By Anne Yemans.	Yemans, Anne.	1648 (1648)	Wing Y30A; ESTC R222187	125,255	256

the time of fasting and mourning yet God doth feed and preserve her from all those devouring beasts that are in the wildernesse and there are seven degrees of comming out of this wildernesse and the Lord doth first shew us that we are in the wildernesse before hee doth make it known to us that hee hath brought us out of it hee will shew us our barrennesse by stripping us quite naked of all our goodly things that we shall have nothing to trust too then will he reveale himselfe in us and appear to be all in all in us and then he will appeare very glorious Hosea 2.14 I will bring her into the wildernesse and speake comfortably unto her There is first a dying to the flesh before there is appearing to live in the Spirit for while our first husband the law or flesh is alive we live unto him but if he be dead by the life of Christ appearing in us then we are free to marry to another which is to Christ Rom. 7.4 Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God Col. 3.3 We are dead to the flesh by the power of the death of Christ for Christ dyed for the destruction I doe not meane our bodies but that which is of Anti-christ in us and our life is hid with Christ in God for our life is in the life of Christ I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life that I now live in the flesh which is in the body I live by the faith of the Sonne of God Gal. 2.20 But in the beginning of this verse he saith I am crucified with Christ Gal. 6.14 God forbid that I should glory in any thing save in the crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto mee and I unto the world So we are crucified to all things that is below Christ 2 Cor. 5.16 17. Wherefore hence-forth know we no man after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet ●ow hence-forth know we him so no more Therefore if any man bee in Christ hee is a new creature ●lde things are passed away behold all things are become new We must not know Christ any longer after our fleshly apprehension for all our old imaginations of Christ must passe away by the new manifestations of Christ in us Rom. 8.10 11. And if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sinne but the Spirit is life because of righteousnesse But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you hee that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortall bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you Here is a dying to the flesh and then living to thee Spirit It is aPpointed for man once to dye And after death comes the judgement as all things is and shall be fulfilled outwardly in the history so all things shall be fulfilled spiritually in us in the mistery Christ is risen in us and is come to spirituall judgment and doth raise up his Spirit in us that hath lyen as it were dead in us and the flesh which is Antichrist shall stand before God and be judged and condemned by him Col. 3.4 When Christ who is our life shall appeare then shall yee also appeare with him in glory and we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3.2 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power Revel 20.6 This is the first resurrection and the Lord is set in his judgement-seate to destroy Antichrist And then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming Even him whose comming is after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders 2 Thes 2.8 9. Satan is said to sit in heavenly places because he transformeth himselfe to the likenesse of God and so deceiveth us making us believe he is God and so we worship him thinking hee is God How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer Son of the Morning how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the Nations For thou hast said in thy heart I will ascend into heaven I will exalt my Throne above the Stars of God I will sit also upon the mount of the Congregation in the sides of the North. I will ascend above the height of the clouds I will be like the most High Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell so the sides of the pit They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying Is this the man that made the earth to tremble that did shake Kingdomes That made the world as a wildernesse and destroyed the Cities thereof that opened not the ●house of his prisoners Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy comming thy pomp is brought downe to the grave and the noise of thy viols The wormes are spread under thee and the worms cover thee Isa 14.9 to the 17. And there came one of the seven Angels which had the seven Vials and talked with me saying unto me Come hither I will shew thee the judgment of the great Whore that sit●eth upon many waters With whom the Kings of the Earth have committed fornication and the Inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication So hee carried mee away in the Spirit into the Wildernesse and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and tenne bornes And the woman was arraied in purple ●earlet and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her handfull of abhominations and filthinesse of her fornication And I saw the woman drunke with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus Revel 17. All nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication Rev. 18.3 Here is a discovering of Anti-christ before she is judged condemned and destroyed and when the time is come for the discovering of her to us then hee shewes us her by a high and glorious revelation of himself for there is not any thing that can discover Anti-christ to us but the Spirit of God When the Lord doth come to shew us any thing of himselfe in the mystery he saith come up hither and I will shew you the things that must be hereafter and immediately I was in the Spirit Rev. 4.1 Rev. 1.10 Rev. 17.1 Rev. 21.9 There is no seeing of any thing of God in the truth of it but by the revelation of the Spirit of God and hee carrieth us as wee are Saints up into himselfe and the higher hee carrieth us the more he shews us of the mysterie of himselfe for as hee openeth the seales in making known any thing of himselfe to us hee saith Come up

yea I will uphold thee with 〈◊〉 right hand of my righteousnesse Behold all 〈◊〉 that were incensed against thee shall be asha●● and confounded they shall be as nothing and 〈◊〉 that strive with thee shall perish Thou shalt seeke them and shalt not finde them even the● that contended with thee they that warre agai●● thee shall be as nothing and as a thing of nough● For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right han● saying unto thee Feare not I will helpe thee Fe●● not thou worm Jacob and ye men of Israel I w●● helpe thee saith the Lord and thy Redeemer t●● holy One of Israel Isa 41.8 to the 14. The Sp●rit of the Lord is upon me therefore hath the L●●● anointed me he hath sent me to preach good tidin● unto the poore to bind up the broken hearted 〈◊〉 preach liberty to the captives and to them th● are bound the opening of the prison Isa 61.1 The fulnesse of the Spirit of God is upo● Christ and he is sent to set us at liberty an● it is he alone that can and doth it It is he th●● hath broken the head of the Serpent and 〈◊〉 is the Serpent that hath bruised his heel whic● is the low and weake member of Christ an● it is he that doth come and break open these ●ron bars and gates of this prison that the D●vill hath kept us in withall as the Jewes la●● hands on the Apostles and put them in th● common prison But the Angel of the Lord 〈◊〉 night opened the prison doores and brought the● forth Acts 5.18 19. So this prison that th● Devill keeps us in is a common prison for 〈◊〉 keepes all man-kind in this prison of himself● but there is two roomes in this prison the on● ●or those that are godly and that room of the ●rison that he keeps them most in is their own righteousnesse and that is the common pri●on for them and the other room in that pri●on is for all sorts of people that are not god●y When the Jewes had put Christ to death ●nd when hee was buried they laid a great ●one at the door of the Sepulchre where Christ ●as laid and they sealed the stone lest hee ●●ould rise againe Mar. 15.46 Mat. 27.66 ●et all this could not keepe Christ from ri●●g for there came an Angel and rolled away ●he stone Mat. 28.2 3 4. And behold there 〈◊〉 a great earth-quake for the Angel of the Lord ●●scended from heaven and came and rolled backe 〈◊〉 stone from the doore and sate upon it And his ●●ntenance was like lightning and his raiment 〈◊〉 white as snow And for feare of him the keepers ●ere astonished and became as dead men They ●●d what they could after they had killed ●hrist to keepe him from rising againe they ●●id a great stone at the doore of his Sepulchre ●●d sealed it to make it fast and set men to ●atch it yet all this could not keepe Christ ●●om rising So the Devil doth by Christ spiri●●ally now for as then he was crucified by his ●●ne peculiar people not as they were Saints ●●n so now the Devill doth stirre us up as hee 〈◊〉 them to persecute and crucifie Christ spiritually by the living to our righteousnesse for so farre as we live to our righteousnesse we embrace that and make much of it but if the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ appeareth being it is not like ours if we see it appear in others we thinke because it is not like ours it is false and we raile against it and hate it and do● what we can to beate it downe and persecute it to the death and if it doth not lye in ou● power to doe what we would against it we● are very sorry that wee cannot doe what wee would we are so impudent bold that we d● say that wee doe not hate your person bu● your opinions and it is that which wee hate and doe what we can to beate it downe and thus we crucifie him in others And if hee manifest himselfe to us in a sweet precious mild● way speaking peace to us wee will not giv● eare to it but thinke it is delusion because i● comes not like our righteousnesse so we beat● it downe And if he maketh known any thing to us of his ways that is contrary to our way● to what we have been taught and our righteousnesse hath led us too wee come against i● with all the whole army of our righteousnesse to stand in battle against him not only t● keepe him out that is from revealing himsel● and further in us but also in killing him in u● so farre as wee see him in us and our desire i● ●hat he may be wholly destroyed as wee are ●●en and are led by our righteousnesse and ●●ing set a worke by the Devill thus we cruci●●e Christ and the Sepulchre that hee is buri●● in is our righteousnesse and never any was ●●ried there but Christ for all things of man ●●th appeare but Christ alone lies hidden ●●d so farre as we live to our righteousnesse ●hrist lyes as it were dead and buried in us 〈◊〉 doe what we can to keep him from rising ●●e roule the greatst stone wee can get against 〈◊〉 doore of this Sepulchre we set the greatest ●●position as wee can against it and seale it ●●d make it sure as we thinke and set a watch ●●er it which is our righteousnesse yet all ●is cannot keepe Christ from rising but the ●●gel will come and roll away this stone and 〈◊〉 upon it and make way for Christ to rise ●●ich is some manifestation of the Spirit of ●od in us in a cleare way appearing very glo●●us and comming with power that we are 〈◊〉 able to resist and he rolls away the stone 〈◊〉 oppositions and makes a way for a cleare ●●ifestation that Christ is risen in us but he ●●h not appeare presently to us as he is risen 〈◊〉 wee shall see this messenger sit upon this ●●e of our oppositions triumphing over 〈◊〉 and the watch-man our righteousness 〈◊〉 as if it were astonished amaz'd to see the appearance of this messenger in a glorious manner in us which we could not imagine of be fore we see it it causeth a great earth-quake in us and striketh our righteousnesse dead and Christ being risen hee comes with power in us by his messenger with some manifestations of his Spirit to make way for a further manifestation of himselfe and his arme shall bring forth salvation in us hee hath lien as it were dead and buried in us and his salvation hath not appeared to us but now he will come and destroy that which hath hindered us from seeing Christ and his salvation For his time being come to arise out of this grave and destroy his enemies he will appeare to us to doe as Sampson did when hee was bound with seven green cords which is perfection of bonds by Delilah his wife and hee brake the cords as the threed of