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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	word_n	world_n	worship_v	343	4	7.6317	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86650	The inheritance of Jacob discovered. After his return out of Ægypt: and the leading of the Lord to the land of promise, declared, and some information of the way thither. Or a word of exhortation to all professors in England, Scotland and Ireland, and to all the world where this shall come, wherein the common salvation is declared, in which the saints believed; and deceit discovered and made manifest. Published in love to all the honest hearted in the nations, in love and bowels of compassion to your soules. Also a few words of exhortation to the rulers of England, and Ireland. / By a servant of Jesus Christ who delighteth in his masters worke. Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3168; Thomason E869_3; ESTC R208464	31,316	40

for and to contend and strive about one with another and all in your wills while the will of God in you is not hearkned unto but cast behind your backs and so the way of true peace you never come to attaine unto Oh when will you be weary of feeding upon the wind and of husks among swine and upon that which dies of it selfe and when will you enquire after the living God who is power how long have you talked of his power to come many years and you are still as far off if not further than you were before and hath told of the glory of the Lord to be revealed and of his Law being written in the heart and of God teaching his people himselfe and of his Spirit being poured out upon his sons and daughters and you cannot see that you have obtained nothing and you have prayed and what have you obtained nothing for you have asked amisse and one comes hungry and is still complaining and then you that are full feeds them with the old dregs and lees which you are setled upon and the old leaven of aiery notions and conceptions and wine of the sowre grape which sets on edge the childrens teeth and fills them to full that when the living bread is broken they cannot eate nor relish it nor tast and so cannot enter your selves nor suffer others to enter and when these things are witnessed in the life which you have talked on so long you cannot own them that doth declare it and when the power of God is declared unto you what it is and where it is to be waited for you cannot own it this is too low for you and except the Lord will come in your way that you prescribe unto him you will not look upon him but as the Jewes did whose eyes were without and your fallen wisdome cannot receive him nor compasse his eternall wisdome And yet you will say the Jewes did require a signe and were in the adultery and the Greeks sought after wisdome and they stumbled and yet you cannot see your selves in the same state Did ever God reveal himselfe to the fallen wisdome which is learned from that principle which is erred and gone out from God or to the will of man which is at enmity against God Nay nay He never did nor will reveal his counsell but to that which is of himselfe which is the least of all seeds in the world and it is he that is borne of God that heareth Gods word and what is borne of the Spirit is Spirit and is nourished by the Spirit and led by it and so the spirituall God reveals his Law and his Statutes to him and his testimony which is sure How long have you talked of the Spirit and worshipping in Spirit and yet indeed denies its leading and teaching and lives in the oldnesse of the letter and crying up and setting up things that are carnal and visible and Elementary and washing is not known from sin nor cleansing and so you may see what operation your Spirit you have talked on hath when you are still what you were Now the Spirit of God is operative and works a change in the ground and translateth all that follow and hearken unto it into its own nature when all those things you so much strive about were but a shadow for the vvord vvas in the beginning and gave life and is spiritual and vvhen it s knovvn and vvitnessed vvithin in the heart it separates from death and gives life to all that hear it and believe in it What Christ is this you preach and what Gospel is this you preach vvhich saves you not from guilt and condemnation for the vvord of the true Christ vvhere it is ovvned cleanseth and takes avvay sin and condemns it and blots it out and destroys the root from vvhence it flovvs forth and vvorks a nevv creation in righteousnesse and the Lamb of God takes avvay sin in which the Churches of Christ believed and is glad tidings to all that doe receive it now none can witnes gladness of soul where there is guilt which you all affirm is in every Christian while in this world and so you might see that it s not the true Christ nor the everlasting Gospell you preach but this you cannot bear Yet you say he hath taken away your sin How much is sin taken away if you say all how comes the guilt and trouble that is in you for if it be taken away and his justice satisfied this were to make God unjust to charge it upon you againe But I tell you when his witnesse in your conscience convinceth you and manifests unto you that you commit it and reproves for it I say you cannot witnesse his justice satisfied for the light is just which is one with God and when this condemns you there is no God that will justifie you But you use to say It s all done in Christ I ask where if it be not taken away and unlesse you have the witnesse of it in you your faith is vain for he that believes hath the witness in himselfe which none hath who walks contrary unto the light the pure vvitnes of Christ for this convinceth you of sin and bears witness against you Now shew your witnesse within you and your assurance I say unto you while the testimony of Jesus bears testimonie against you it bears not witnesse unto you and so see your confusion But after you have believed in Christ as you say and have received all his Ordinances if any thing after did judge you and bring trouble upon you this you used to call a temptation and so put light for darknesse and darknes for light I say there is no guilt where sin is taken away and crucified but peace and rest in the holy God who is unchangeable and so is his witnesse unchangeable which judgeth and condemnes the changeable But you use to say His love is unchangeable and whom he loves once he loves to the end Yea but it is him who is begotten by the immortall word which was in the beginning and which word leads to the beginning again before the Hatred was the Promise is to this seed not seeds as to many but the seed of the Covenant there he loves from the womb yea the womb that bears the seed of Jacob and the paps that gives them suck and where this is known as to enjoyment Esau is cast out and Ishmael and the seed of Abraham inherits the Promise and Edom and Moab is laid wast and Amaleck is slain by the edge of the sword and the seed of evil doers cut off blessed are they that can witnesse this in truth and till this be known the everlasting love of God is not known which is stronger then death and sin is death and where it is acted conceived love is not witnessed nor its strength but wrath comes upon the Children of disobedience and are you not Children of disobedience while you break

hath chosen your own way and so hath gone from the way which is the light of Christ in you and so you run into the broad way and that which desired after God hath not been nourished and fed but hath been famished and another hath been fed which now is for the slaughter But now as ye return home to within to the true light of Jesus which is that one thing which leads all men that own it to be guided by it to true rest and peace Now friends there is something in man which must receive Christ something of his own learn what it is which he comes to and nothing can he joyn with or be joyned unto but that which is pure and undefiled for the pure in heart sees God and not the mortall mind that despiseth his glory for to that mind that hunts abroad he doth not reveale himself that 's Esau the blessing is nothing to him nor that which the Covenant of God is with the Election he hates and to him its of no price nor value that 's the prophane person and Judas that betrayes him selleth him for a thing of naught nor the Pearl is nothing to the Swine now read within every one you that are painted with the attire of the Harlot trimmed and made beautifull in the eyes of the Aegyptians this is a small thing to you and to that seed which the promise is to and the Covenant established with is trodden upon and is famished in the streets of Sodome and Aegypt where Christ was and is slaine and his witnesses suffers in the streets and none hath compassion is this thing nothing to you all yee that passe by to slight the love of the father in sending his Son a light to you and him you despise and as the Pharisees could not own him they put the time far off and so doe you and cannot own that of him in you to be lead by it and so followes strangers and still are complaining and puts redemption to another world and so Satan hath deceived you in looking abroad and therefore that at home is of no price unto you and so you run away from the drawing of the father and from his dwelling where the least in his house hath bread enough but to the carnall mind which is at enmity with God who seeks him in the fallen wisedome he is of no value and that which was the Saints Rule is too low for you and yet you say the Sons of God are lead by his Spirit Now I say where doth the Spirit speak doth it not bear witnesse either with or against our Spirits and so all mens spirits and so that nature in you which is one with the Serpent and nourisheth the Harlot is exalted and lives and hath preheminence and yet you will talk of being reconciled unto God Now consider while you stand not in the Councel of God within and wait to hear his word you know not the word of Reconciliation for he takes none into union with himself but they that follow him and doth what he commands and are his fruit and off-spring And therefore O foolish and unwise how long will you feed on a dream that you are saved when your rebellion is open to your own sight To that of God in your consciences I speak All therefore that see your darknesse that you lye in return home and that which is low mind the meek spirit and be not forward nor rash but stand still in quietnesse and meeknesse that the still voyce you may hear which till you come downe low within you cannot hear for the loud voyces of the Aegyptians and Inchanters is so many and Pharaohs voyce and Herods is so loud and you whose minds are abroad you think as they thought its the voyce of God But I say be still he shall not cry nor lift up his voyce in the streets who you must hearken unto in you that your soules may live and so be low and still if you will hear his voyce and wait to hear that speak that separates betwixt the precious and the vile Now that which you must wait in is neer you yea in you the eye that seeth and the ear that heareth that is of the Lord for that which is visible is naturall and carnall and the naturall ear cannot hear the word of the spirituall God for that which hearkens without that ear must be deaf and that eye blind Now that which reveales the pure spirituall God must be in you pure and spirituall for none knowes the things of God but by the Spirit of God and did not his Spirit bear witnesse alwayes unto their spirits and doth it not so now to all that know him So in the light wait which comes from God who is light and dwells in the immortall light which the mortall eye cannot behold and it will lead you to know Christ who is immortall and not carnall but spirituall and eternall And as you love the light and keep your minds inward then you will hear the motion of Christ Jesus in you and so loving it the good you will come to see from God which will lead out of sin and sanctifie you and the acceptable year you will see and the day of vengeance and this is he whom the father hath given for a Covenant to bring man out of the alienation to himself again and to reconcile man unto himself even by the blood of the Crosse and he who is the light is the Covenant and he who is the Covenant is the light for they are one in him and this Covenant of peace is tendred unto you who are afar off And herein is the eternall love of God made manifest to the Jew and the Greeke and the life of his Son to be the light of the world and of men and so in the Covenant of light abide and you will see he is neer you the Peace-maker the gift of God which presents you perfect in himself to the father and this gift is free and offered freely to all that will receive it and yet you cannot receive the gift in your own wills but through the deniall of your own wills for the light is contrary to the will and so you will see the will of the earthly man and Gods will contrary and as you receive the will of God you deny your owne wills and so doth the will of another and another guides you and leads you and this is Gods alone work not of your selves but wrought by Christ in his owne way and truth and so the Covenant of God comes to be established to the seed and the foundation stands sure and his promise is fulfilled in you as you come to witnesse the seed which is one in whom the promise is fulfilled And friends Thus must you wait to have judgement set up within you and this is he who is the Judge and the light of the world and so wait to see the Law set up within which is