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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	gospel_n	law_n	life_n	7,267	5	5.2543	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60437	Hidden things made manifest by the light in a plain distinction between condemnation and temptation : wherein is shewed how the rightetous law of God is ministered upon the transgressor, and how it is to be by all received and continued under, through it, as a schoolmaster to come to Christ, by him to have the sin done away forever : also of temptation, what it is, and how it may be known and discerned from condemnation, that out of temptation man may be delivered and kept with the light of Christ, who was tempted and did overcome : with a direction to them who profess the knowledge of the truth, and live not in the power of God, that they may know the entrance within the vail, where the temptations are overcome, and where the foolish virgins cannot enter / given forth for such who say they see, and yet their sin remaineth ... by a member of the church and body of Christ ... Humphrey Smith.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4062; ESTC R10253	15,254	23

that they need not now to be afraid of God who had shewed them so much love and mercy And many such things might they have pleaded as most professing people do now who can talk of promises and deliverances and of Christ and his merits and Righteousness and Justification and Redemption fininished without them and especially of Ordinances and their own experiences of the power of God but are yet in their sins having not received the thing promised neither come to him who is the end of the Law and maketh an end of sin whom many satisfie their vain minds with talking of him with the same tongue that useth deceit and professing him who is the end of the Law but the Law they despise holding the Truth of God in the unrighteous grounds which by the mighty power of God through the ministration of the Law is to be shaken and removed as it is written Sinai also was moved and all Israel trembled and Moses did fear and quake and once more will the Lord shake not onely the Earth but the heavens also and then shall the foundations of the hypocrites be overturned for ever For though the Name of God and Christ be professed yet if Moses Law be despised such dye without mercy for the Law is to remove the iniquity which doth with-hold the mercy and the good things from man and in the end of the Law is that received by which the Law is fulfilled which is according to the Law the Prophets but there is none can come to that in the end of the Law who refuse to com to the beginning of the Law and despise the Ministration of Condemnation and make a mock at trembling or at least not knowing what it is exceedingly to fear quake being not in the least sensible what that is which must be shaken and removed before the the thing promised be obtained for a promise may be made long before the thing promised be given or obtained for a promise was made unto Abraham and his seed and yet it is written of him and many more that they dyed having not obtained the promises and he that made the promise was before the sin who ministred forth the Law to discover the sinne through the ministration whereof and by obedience thereunto that cometh to be received which taketh avvay the sin in which all the promises are received And so all that come to receive the thing promised they receive that which is the end of the Law and was before the sin in which there is no sin by which sin is finished and him received in whose mouth there is found no guile who bringeth his to be as he is in this present world being made the righteousness of God through him having the righteousness of the Law fulfilled in them by him who is the end of the Law dwelling in them in whom also his Power worketh mightily which is more then to talk of the Law being fulfilled without them for many such are neither come to that which fulfils the Law neither yet to the Law it self and such are hating reviling backbiting opposing and many ways persecuting those who witnesse the Law fulfilled in them even as Saul who was bred up at the feet of Gamaliel and knew that of the Law which was written without and walked blamelesse according to the righteousness thereof and yet knew not that which gave forth the law but persecuted him by whom the Law should be fulfilled Whose dreadful power smote him down and a blindness came upon that great professor who had profited much in that Religion above many of his equals And to that power which struck him blind did he then bow and became obedient and afterwards said When the commandment came sin revived and I dyed And so that was struck blinde and is to be blinded which professed the Law before it come and increased in that knowledge without the life and knew not that by which the Law should be fulfilled Therefore that which sees must be blind and that which is blind is to see And this revelation and heavenly vision he did not then call a Temptation nor a Delusion Neither did he despise that which struck him blind and let him see a body of sin and came to cut him down because of the sin but cryed out of his wretchednesse and accounted all as dross and dung and unto this he was obedient and this he loved and did not say of it That it was not able to save him from sinne the which before did prick for sinne though against that which prickt he had strived which was in him and it was said unto him It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks And so that which striveth and kicketh against that which pricketh at the heart is that by which the heart is hardened for the word is hid in the heart which word is sharp as a sword which word being preached some were pricked to the heart others cut to the heart so that many cryed out Men and Brethren What shall we do to be saved and so the word being nigh in which God is striving with man even piercing the hearts of many that some in secret have been ready to cry out and say VVhat shall I do to be saved and yet being not truly sensible what it is in them which did prick and pierce through the heart and let them see themselves out of Gods Covenant therefore have they strove against it and called this a Temptation which was the powerful operation of God by the light of his son in the heart calling to repentance the which they have called a temptation of the Devil esteeming it so to be which is most horrible blasphemy and resisting of the spirit and refusing to turn to him that smiteth And this is the blindness of them who know not God who by the light of his son doth knock at the door of the heart to minister forth the Law to judge and condemn and break the hardness that in the broken heart his Word of life might be received and his power made known to the confounding of that which kept that in bondage under the transgression which was given into man before the transgression was out of which transgression there is no coming but by and through the ministration of Condemnation which doth it discover in the ground of it through which there is a coming to receive the Gospel of Peace which is the Power of God not to be preached to the wicked things under which the just doth suffer which the Law is to but by the Lord of glory through the Light preached to the spirit in prison that it through the Condemnation of the other may grow up to lead and guide the creature in all things in obedience to Gods will from a true sence of his love in the heart whereby his whole Law comes to be fulfilled and the promise and the blessing received in him who is the end of the

is all in vain And this is not known by any but such who know the Judgements of the Lord set up in the heart and the Cup of Astonishment to the Adulterous seed which comes of the Will of the flesh and cannot lay down the life for the Friend Wherefore I say Wait to know the Birth that is immortal and feel that born up which never yet vvas raised in them over vvhom the Vail yet is that the free-Birth may be known and the Seed whom God hath appointed the blessing unto from under death redeemed that by the powerful risings thereof the understanding may be opened with that which was before Forms were that to it you may come which giveth life unto the soul and know a Saviour borne of the barren Womb and a Deliverer brought forth in the place where he hath not been known and the plant to spring out of that ground which is yet dry that it may be overshadowed with the loveliness of its spreading forth that a Way may be opened in the Wilderness and the humble exalted in the Valley and so come to learn of that which is yet little and low and take heed of taking counsel of the Serpent vvhose subtilty will soon lead forth from the simplicity neither cover your selves with any thing before the Righteousness of God which is perfect be received but love that which comes from the man of sorrows vvho comes to break the peace of all them who walk not in the everlasting Way of Life Let all them who are out of it search their hearts with the Light And take heed of that which is high forward or strong in the Will for vve are weak which is not brought to the Cross for there is the first birth from the wrong grounds which will speake and act that which it lives not in neither is able to confirm it in faithfulness to the death and loss of all for things may be true in themselves and that which is out of the truth may speake of it yet such vain talkers cannot suffer to death for what they speak For that which cometh forth first is strong in the Earthly and would live for ever and have the blessing and would rule over the meeke thing in the particular and in others having a secret desire to be admired being far unwilling to take a servants place but certainly it is the meeke humble suffering seed which in many is yet opprest that is to last for ever vvho through death comes into the Dominion Therefore sink down out of the airy Comprehension and subtilty above the life and first come to suffer with that vvhich is meek and lovv if ever you intend vvith it to reign in that peace and life vvhich from all that vvithout the Vail is hid and in silence watch and be sober to see him come which saves the soul and clothes it with his own Righteousness that you be not found without a covering of the spirit power and life among the foolish Virgins for few there be that find the Way of life and abide therein And I knowing the terror of the Lord that will certainly come upon all them who dye out of his Covenant therefore I warn all people every vvhere as the Lord enlargeth me to wait to feel the powerful Word of repentance and with the light to make diligent search into the ground and foundation of all Professions Words and Actions For the Lord God will make inquisition for the blood of the Just and reward the double-minded according to the intents of their hearts the Gaul whereof will be rent with the povver of his Might which will sweep away the refuge of lyes and confound your Divinations in the head of that knowledge above the seed and a day of desolation must come Sword and Famine must you know and the Earth to be removed and your heavens shaken that the poor may come to receive the glad tydings of the Gospel which is the povver of God for the fat and the strong is for judgement both vvithin without they are still sent away empty but the poor are they which are to be satisfied not the rich high wise strong mighty prudent Diviners and Orthodox Men and zealous Professors and licentious Libertines as they are called who professe a Saviour to come some would have a King to reign hereafter but they are not agreed how nor when nor where their King shall reign whom they imagine shall come but are sound despisers and not lovers nor faithful followers of him that is come the glory of whose KINGDOM is already shining over the World and is established in righteousness Who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Who is our Head our Law-giver and our King and vve do not look for another as the Drunkards of Ephraim do vvho are drunk but not vvith Wine and staggar at noon-day and must be dashed one against another and broken to pieces as the potsherds of the Earth vvho are looking for a King to come and know not the King who is already come Who is the Light to which they will not bow though it in secret doth them reprove and sheweth us plainly of the Father and lets them see their disobedience To it now therefore bovv and bend for plainly the Lord God vvho is light vvill not alvvayes strive by the light of his Son in your hearts and this knovv That as I tender the least honest desires that are begotten in any after the living Truth of God yet I am to deal plainly vvith all and clear my conscience of all Who are covered vvith their ovvn conceivings and in Words and Writing to vvarn all in the spirit of truth and meekness as the Lord moveth me in faithfulness to declare against that vvhich yet in any bears rule over the Seed vvhich by judgement must be overturned and all the judgements of the Lord are true Wherefore ye that are vvilling to come out of temptations into that vvhere the foolish virgins cannot enter wait in the fear of the Lord to feele his Work vvithin vvhile the day of salvation lasteth least thick darknesse come upon you and you be found in the night in vvhich none can vvork and take heed of a secret high mindedness and prize your day of visitation more then life or liberty and take heed of that vvhich vvould contrive a vvay to shun the cross or stop the mouth of the vvitness but let the honest simplicity come to rule in the measure of it and take heed of entring in and yeilding to temptations for many vvayes hath the Serpent vvhich is near to beguile and destroy the life from man vvhich is not overcome but in the continual fear through the cross to the Will vvith the povver of the light vvhich is given to lead through all these things into the rest vvhich is prepared onely for them vvho are faithful to the light For this have I not learned nor received from men the Lord God knovveth I lye not but through the operation of the mighty povver of God vvhose indignation I have born in vvhose judgements I rejoyce for ever and glorifie and praise his blessed Name vvho by it my Wisdom confounded and suffered me to be sifted and tempted by the Enemy divers vvayes yet preserved my life under the shadovv of his Wing that I might praise and serve him in the Land of the living and declare his Wonders among the sons of men and let them also see vvith the light the narrovv vvay that they are to come vvhich in some measure hath been declared though in that language vvhich the Wisdom of the World may not understand and call it legal to vvhom as foolishness it may appear but my voice may be knovvn to the spirit in prison vvhom my soul travels for in the bovvels of my Fathers love H. S. FINIS