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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	flesh_n	fulfil_v	law_n	6,597	5	5.9828	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60633	The glory of the new covenant	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing S4305; ESTC R28163	7,242	10

The Glory of the New Covenant MAny and divers are the manifestations of the Love and grace of God wherein he is willing to shew forth the Riches of his Mercy in his own kindness and from one degree to another he openeth himself according to the good pleasure of his will and also according to the preparedness and fitness that the heart is in to receive him for although it be in his pleasure to manifest and measure forth the Riches of his grace and love unto a people yet he doth not do it beyond their present capacity in which he beholds them in a preparedness and fitness to joyn unto him and receive him for he well knoweth and understandeth that there is a part in man which would abuse his Gifts if it could compass them to it self and therefore he withholdeth the manifestations of his love and grace from that part and doth never answer it by manifesting or measuring forth any thing of his love unto it for he hath determined to famish that part to death that the true hunger of the true birth may openly breath unto him and receive satisfaction in him for though that part which is of the flesh may catch at something which unto the poor is manifested yet it can never compass the gift it self for that is ever with held from it as being unworthy to be intrusted with such an excellent Treasure and it can never attain unto any higher degree of what is manifested from God unto the true birth then to behold it afar off in which sight it creates a likeness of what it beholdeth and transforms it self as if it was the same thing and here many people sits under the government of a transformed Spirit and doth believe that they are come under their own Vine and sits under their own Fig-tree and that they are ceased from their own labour and are entered into their Rest and this they cry up as the most excellent glory that far exceeds the glory of service and this is no other but the fleshly part that is set down at ease under the government of a transformed Spirit under which the true Seed lies in bondage and deep Captivity and such have kept back that which they should have given to the Slaughter and hath saved the worser part alive and are set down at ease in it and so they have erred from that of God in them by which he prepares and fits the heart to receive him in his own way and the glory of their Rest is but as a fading flower which to day is excellent in its shew and to morrow passeth away and is no more and this is not the glory of the New and Everlasting Covenant wherein the God of Love and Peace is all unto his Children For a new Heart will I give them saith the Lord and a new Spirit I will put into them and I will be their God and they shall be my people Mark Here the Lord prepares a new heart and a new Spirit which according to the preparedness and fitness is only in a capacity to receive him in the manifestations of his Love Grace and Mercy which being received into that heart and Spirit which God prepareth he then becomes their God that so Receives him and they become his people in his own Covenant and this is the passage from Death to Life when the Law hath had its full force in the old heart to condemn the flesh with all the motions of it and so it is a ministration that is Glorious though it be a ministration of Condemnation for asmuch as it makes way for the Rising of the Seed in which there is a better hope through which ministration all must pass before they be prepared and fitted to receive the love and grace of God For when the Law hath had its full force upon the old Man and hath condemned the first Adams sinful flesh then is the way prepared for the second Adam to manifest his life in his quickning Spirit and there the new Birth comes to be born which hath a new heart and a new Spirit and is in a capacity to receive the Love and Grace of God and so Grace and Truth comes by Jesus Christ who fulfils the Law in every point and causeth the administration of Condemnation to cease and brings in the ministration of Righteousness that far exceeds it in Glory And here the New Covenant comes into its place by the Resurrection of the Seed and in the Seed the glory of it doth far exceed the glory of the first Covenant and there the good thing is come unto which the shaddow pointed the Substance come the Life come the Everlasting glory come and a sure Defence stretched over it And this is the Rest that is Pure and never was Polluted and who are entered into it they labour no more in their own works but are now Created in Christ Jesus who worketh all for them and in his strength they are able to do all things for he hath quickned them in his life and in his life they are zealous of good Works and who are come into this quickning power and life of Christ they are truly in their Rest for their own works are all ceased and they are ceased unto them and yet they labour in the Holy Calling whereunto he calls them for as he gives them life so in his life they have motion and in the motion of his life they do all things according to his Will and this is the Work in the New Covenant Not according to the Works of the Old for then it was said Do this and Live But now it is said Live and do whatsoever I command you And this is true love manifested unto him when that is done which is commanded by him for by the power and virtue of his Life received there is strength given to do those things that are well pleasing in his sight and who are come into this Covenant of love and life they are more active in doing what his pleasure is to have done then when they were labouring and working in the weakness and unprofitableness of the Flesh and so the glory of the New Covenant doth far exceed the glory of the Old Forasmuch as the Life is Risen and the Righteousness thereof Revealed which is the good thing unto which the first Covenant pointed and it doth not destroy any good works which God hath ordained but quickneth more into them and maketh more zealous of them and the new heart and the new spirit is more servent to serve the Lord being that life is come which quickneth in service and in which the service is accepted And this is the birth that is Redeemed from under the Law and the service of it to serve God in Newness of Spirit under his Grace in which it is approved and accepted for as no flesh living under the Law can be Justified so no Innocent Babe that is under Grace is condemned but all

its works and services are reckoned for Righteousness and are Blessed And here is the riches of grace by which Redemption is perfected and who shall lay any thing to the charge of this Birth Who shall say thou art to cease from service and labour when the life hath quickned into service and requires labour in the work of the Gospel surely such would not have the harvest gathered who would have the workmen cease from their labour they do not feel the weight of the harvest in that life which once said The Harvest is great the labourers are but sew pray ye theefore the Lord of the Harvest that he would send forth painful labourers into his Harvest Here was labour service to be done for the gathering of the harvest surely it is as great at this day as e●e they that feel the weight of it in the life they cannot say to the true Labourers your service is over that your labor is in vain you are to cease from it Oh no they pray that the Lord of the Harvest would send forth more painful Labourers for the help furtherance of the Work for it is a day wherin much service hath been done for God and all the faithful improves their diligence to serve the Lord and one another for they are in the Love and the Grace and the Mercy and therein they are ready and willing to serve the Seed in all not by speaking their own words but in and by the word of the Lord and this is the day of the Lord and not the day of man for the Lord is all in it and his servants serve him and their reward is with them these drinks at the living springs and out of their bellies flowes Rivers of living water for as they are in Covenant with God and partakers of his Divine nature even so they communicate the virtue of it to the refreshing of the weary and to the reviving of all the tender plants and herein their service stands for God and answers to the righteous life in every Conscience and they cannot cease from their labour being that God hath intrusted them with the work of the Gospel and they dare not do it negligently much less throw it by carelesly and they that would have it so or can do so did yet never know the necessity of that work laid upon them but came forth in a froward spirit which Judgement pursued in the feeling of which they conclude the same unto all and where Judgement hath overtaken any in this place and that they are sensible of their own hast it is safe for such to cease from that labour and to wait in humility for the rising of the life that they in the same may be disposed to serve the Lord for whosoever hath stepped forth hastily into this great work they will assuredly feel Judgment to overtake them for the living God is zealous of his glory and will not give it to another for he is risen in the Glory of his own Covenant and his Life is revealed in Righteousness and many there be that are entred into it and knows it to be their Rest and though they have attained the excellent glory of this Righteous life by the virtue of it's Resurrection and as to themselves have rest and peace in it yet they are constreined to seek the good of others and to labour in the life of their Rest to bring others to Rest with them for the greater part of the work is yet behind though much there be already done and therefore whilst it is day it is the time to work that what is yet behind may be fulfilled for it is certainly believed that the same power which did begin the work will in due time accomplish it and in the mean time it prospers to the joy of all that faithfully labour in it and this is the work of the New Covenant which is glorious and doth far exceed the glory of the work of the first Covenant for asmuch as the work of the first Covenant was in the weakness and unprofitableness of the flesh but the work of the New Covenant is in the power and life of the spirit and so the service of the New Covenant is a free service through the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus who hath brought life and immortality to light by the glorious Resurrection of his heavenly power under which the babes sits down as under a shade and knows the Government upon his shoulders and he fills their habitations with Joy and everlasting Peace and so the true Vine is come and the sitting down under it is known amongst the heirs of life who rejoyces together in the unity and peace that they have in him and willingly serves the Lord and one another in singleness of heart and therefore every one is to watch in the light of the Covenant that none may loose the guide of their youth for who looses that doth certainly loose their way and never comes to the purchased possession of the heavenly Inheritance that is in Christ Jesus but satisfies themselves with some apprehensions and applications of what they have beheld a far of and so the guide being lost the way is lost and the inheritance lost and then there is a sitting down in a Rest apprehended short of the rest that is purchased and here the flesh is at ease and the will at liberty through which the mind is tossed and the Righteous life heavily burdened Now who comes to wait in the light of the Covenant with that to be guided they see their way and are preserved and so the children walks together in the unity and peace of the Covenant and the dread of the Lord is before them and the Cross is delightful to them and whatsoever they take up the Cross unto they have strength given to bear it in the patience and so the first nature comes to be crucified and life and immortality comes to be raised in which the glory of the New Covenant is Revealed and Exalted and all that are born and brought forth in this life they are truly prepared and fitted to receive the love and grace of God and he doth not withhold any good thing from them for as they are born of him even so they live by him and alwayes depends upon him for the renewings of his Mercy that they in the same may renew their strength to follow him faithfully and innocently in the way which he prepareth for them and whatsoever they do they do it in the Fathers Will and seeks his glory alone Therefore all ye first-born of God who are risen from the dead and have received the love and grace of the Father and lives and abides in the Covenant of his Mercy proclaim his message to the ends of the earth seek the dispersed gather the scattered raise up the dead revive the hope of Israel that the captives may rejoyce at your Voice and the poor may be glad