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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	dwell_v	heart_n	holy_a	6,103	5	4.8962	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65904	A reproof from the Lord declared by the movings of his Spirit to certain professors, whose habitations is in and about Hull and Beverley, who take delight in approaching to God, and to know his wayes, as a people that did righteousness, and yet seeks to limit him, and stumbles at this light, in which the knowledge of his wayes is received: with an admonition to all to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisie, who for a pretence, make long prayers, whilest iniquity is regarded in the heart, and disobedience lived in, lest you receive greater damnation. As also, an invitation to all, who are groaping in the dark, to own the light in which the pearl is found, which gives strength against sin, and rest to the soul; published for the information of such as desire to know the truth, and would enter into the kingdom, were they not deceived by the sleights of men, who shut up the way, and will neither enter themselves, nor suffer those that would go on, that you may try all things, and hold fast tha	Whitehead, John, 1630-1696.	1656 (1656)	Wing W1980; ESTC R214122	9,328	8

is not any besides him that makes manifest the deeds of darkness or can lead out therefrom So all that expect or hold our another light then that which lighteth every man and deny its sufficiency are in the fancy exalted and puffed up in their knowledge and wisdome with which they know not the Scriptures nor the power of the Lord Iesus Christ Iohn 8.21 1 Pet. 2.4 Psa 118.22 1 Iohn 1.7 who is the light of the world sufficient to lead out of darkness for he that follows him shall not abide therein but have the light of life and here is the stone which the builders reject made the head of the corner and is a pretious sure foundation to all them that believe and walk in his light who are witnesses of the vertue of his blood which by vain talkers is made a cloak for sin washing and cleansing from all sin of his fulness who is able to save to the uttermost have we received power to become the sons of God in that obedience and righteousness which is perfect where all that be found are justified which righteousness is revealed from faith to faith in all them that believe in the light which manifests and condemns sin in the flesh with which light all you that stumble at it are seen to come short of the righteousness of God which makes a man righteous and are shut out of the Covenant of grace and light wherein salvation and the power against sin is placed yet left without excuse in that light is come into the world lighting every man and you say you see in which light the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men and there is your condemnation that abide in darkness Iohn 3.19 2●… Titus 2.11 that light is come and grace hath appeared in which power against sin is freely tendered and yet darkness rather loved and lived in because of evill deeds and the free grace of God into wantonness is turned by all of you that live in the ungodliness and follow after the worldly lusts which the Saints are taught to deny And you are the murmurers complainers and slothfull servants Isa 55.2 3 Acts 7.51 which foolishly would charge the fault upon God as though he did not draw nor give power against sin when as he hath freely given him for a witness to the people in whom all power and fulness dwells and by his spirit hath striven with you ever since you began to yeeld the members of you bodies servants to unrighteousness for which you have often been checked in secret and felt the spirit moving to purity contrary to your wills but how often ye have resisted the holy spirit and quenched his motions let the light of your consciences judge ye stiffneckned and uncircumcised in hearts and ears how will you be able to stand when the Lord shall visit upon you the evill of your doings who have a form of godliness but denyes the power which overcomes sin how deeply are you fallen into the Enemies snare who ownes his power to keep you in sin and cannot see nor own the spirit and ●ower of God that would lead you out from it though it be a Reprover of you my … ul even laments your captivity how is the whole Head become sick and the who●● heart faint how are you scattered in your imaginations and driven from mountain to hills which be dry and barren how is your beauty and glory withered and your wise men gone backward and their knowledge become foolishness and their language confounded How do you reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man how are you groping in the dark to finde him whom your souls longs after how do your eyes fail whilst your expectations are without looking for glorious dayes and a power to come but when you know not but as you imagine and conceive from the promises written in Scripture which imaginations and conceivings blindes the eye that should apply the promises to their right object and leads the minde outward into groundless hopes which are mixed with doubt and uncertainties and whilst you follow such blinde guides as your imaginations and conceivings which arise from the earthly wisdome which knows not the things of God you often fall into the ditch and are defiled by the pollutions of the world 〈◊〉 ●5 2 3 4. and thus compassing your selves about with the sparks you have kindled are forced to lye down in sorrow And now a word to all amongst you who sit weeping by the Rivers of Babylon and have honest desires after God and his righteousness whom my bowels yearnes over and sounds towards you that you may not any longer be tossed with the sleights of men nor feed on their airy Notions which gives you not the least strength against sin but draws out your minds without to look at Christ at a distance from you and his appearance in power to come hereafter though he be near unto every one of you 〈◊〉 ● 3.20 〈◊〉 10.6 7 8 reproving in the gate or door of your hearts whereat the minde goes forth into vanity even as saith the righteousness which is of faith The Word is neare you in your hearts and in your mouths the Word of Faith which we preach and this is the same Word which was from the beginning preached by the Apostles and witnessed to be living and abiding for ever ingrafted and able to save the soul and this is it vvhich discerns the thoughts and intents of your hearts and bears witness against every vain thought idle word and froward ungodly way which your own wills that are not free but bound to vanity chuseth therefore from your own wisdom labours and self-works which be all wicked cease and stand still in the Light of that engrafted Word of which the Scriptures testifie which is able to save your souls so may your blind eyes be opened and you brought into a true sense of your conditions to see how you have walked in unpleasant places and that notwithstanding all your knowledge and profession all is not right in the inward but corruption still lodgeth in the heart as a Partition-Wall separating you from God and to do good of your selves have no understanding nor ability but for ever might have perished in this state if God in his everlasting love had not given his son a light into the world to manifest and lead out of this darkness So in the Light which shews you fin and inability in self to come out of it wait ●or 1.4 and you will feel in your selves the sentence of death and condemnation upon the first man which is of the earth earthly and by the operation of Gods power which is manifest in the light you will feel desires begotten and moving in your souls after righteousness which motions is the Fathers drawing in his love that you may not perish Ezek. 33.11 Iames 1.10 but come unto Christ which is

the light and life and this is the will of God which begets by the word of truth both to will and do according to his good pleasure Therefore beware of continuing in stiff neckedness least you be found fighters against God and resisters of his will as they are who perish in their sin but while it is called to day Phi. 2.13 hear him that speaks from heaven whose voice shakes the heavens and the earth who is the good shepherd calls unto you that have gone astray Heb. 12.25 26. therefore harden not your hearts but wait in spirit to hear and know his voice who testifies against all sin and calls after him out of the conformity and love of this world and whosoever will be his disciples must sell all deny themselves Mark 12.21 and take up his cross daily and in obedience follow him This is that which you yet want and makes the difference between you and us and is the ground of the enmities standing and sin prevailing over you therefore who amongst you is weary and heavy laden therewith and would be his disciples consult not with flesh and blood nor give way to that nature which stumbles at the cross and seeks to save its own life in the delights and pleasures of the flesh and to keep in the union love and unpure friendship of the world which is enmity to God and whosoever will be its friend is Gods enemy Iam. 4.4 Ioh. 2.15 profess what you will that love the world the love of the Father is not in you therefore do not love it nor the things that be in it neither fear any outward losses nor suffering that you shall meet with in your separation from your former companions nor the frowns nor oppositions of men Matt. 10.37 38. Luk. 9.23 1 Cor. 1.8 for if you count any thing too deer to part with that you may win Christ you are not worthy of him but let self in which the inability to do good lodgeth be wholly denied by you and take up the daily cross to your wills and lusts that wars against your souls which cross is the power of God in all that are saved which crucifies to the world and taking it up and enduring of it you will come to witness the flesh crucified with its affections and lusts and the Partition-wall broken down and that which lets taken out of the way by the Lamb of God in whom dwelleth the fulness both of wisdom and power which together with him is freely given to all that ask not amiss but waits in spirit to know him revealed and his life through death made manifest Col. 1.27 1 Ioh. 4.4 which opens the mystery that hath been hid from ages Christ in you the hope of glory who is greater then he that is in the world and gives victory and dominion over it as it was in the beginning and this salvation is witnessed and freely is tendered unto you in the Covenant of Light Life and Power in which waiting to learn of him who is meek and low in heart his holy arm you will come to see not shortned that it cannot save but stretched out to take you by the hand lead you by a way that you have not known in which you will come to see the wonders of the Lord and the works of his hands brought forth out of bondage to corruption and possess the life of that which you profess in words Now being warned take heed of hardning your hearts against the Lord by continuing in sin and resting in the outward knowledge of these things from what you have read in Scriptures for that is not as you ought to know them which if you do Gen. 6.3 your visitation will pass over and the Spirit of the Lord cease striving by which he would sanctifie and gather you into his fold and then will the things belonging to your peace be hid from your eyes and you shall desire to see one of the dayes of the Son of man and shall not see it and though you be not gathered yet shall he be glorious Act. 28.28 and the Gentiles will hear his salvation and many shall come from the East West North and South and sit down together in the Kingdom of God and your selves shall be shut out who wil not hear So he that hath an ear let him hear and come forth for the time is now at hand and I am clear of your blood at that day who in love to your souls have sent you a warning commending it to your consciences in the sight of God where I look to be made manifest when the book is opened 2 Cor. 4.2 3 c. and till then am willing to bear your reproaches and be accounted your enemy for declaring the truth The 14 day of the 6 moneth 1656. The End