Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	1,758	5	9.8256	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29304	Some addition to a former paper, entituled, A short declaration of the purpose and decree of the everlasting counsel of Gods heavenly host concerning His royal seed, to demonstrate the nobleness of its operation, and how God doth manifest it : and is an answer in short to a question as followeth : How God doth manifest this noble and honourable seed in man, in which is the glory of it magnified by its own workings, in all that believe, to their justification, salvation, and to the condemnation of them that resist? / by a lover ot it, and one who waits for its exaltation over all, and hath travelled and suffered for its sake, William Brend.	Brend, William, d. 1676.; Brend, William, d. 1676. Short declaration of the purpose and decree of the everlasting counsel of Gods heavenly host.	1663 (1663)	Wing B4361; ESTC R20114	15,513	22

man to bring these strong holds of sin and iniquity under his righteous Seed and that that will not that he shall raign must be slain before him by his righteous sword with two edges And blessed of the Lord God for ever are all such that are entred into this war and that stand faithful in this battel warring with the armour of God which are the several branches or weapons of the seed of Light and Life which are mighty through God to the casting down of strong holds and bringeth every thought into obedience to the Light and this is through believing which purifies the heart and that is the Faith which if it be but as a grain of mustard seed victory over mountains of sin will be witnessed and a hope will be begotten and patience and experience of the working of its power and this will be as the Anchor of the soul sure and stedfast against all the storms and tempests that may arise to drive the soul to shipwrack from its God which is its only strength and so the glory of the Seed of everlasting bliss comes to be known to increase in its battels and wars against all the fruits of the evil and cursed seed of the Serpent and Christ's Ensign comes to be lift up and his Standard comes to be gathered unto and his valiant displaying of his Banner is known with triumph in the victory of so glorious a Captaine of Salvation which saves and redeems out of that vile servitude by which they were kept in by the Devils power which carried them captive at his will unto every sin and noysom lust Oh therefore all come to the Light in each particular Conscience which is the pure gift of God that by it you may see and discern the enemy of God and of your souls deliverance out of that captivity by which he would still keep in bondage the soul and the righteous Seed of the Lord God but in the Light wait and watch to see him in all his wiles and ways of working to keep this Light in obscurity and the vertue of it under that the glory of it might not be known But my dear friends believing in the Light and owning the sufficiency of it Oh it will raise out of all obscurity and it will shine and discover all the darkness and all the ways and works thereof and it will arise in strength and whet its glittering Sword of power to cut down all that stands in the way of it and he will be known to be as a fire to burn up all those briars and thorns chasfe and stubble for the Light of Israel is as a fire and his Holy One as a flame to burn and consume all that stand in the way of it and nothing is to strong for it and though the sins and iniquities be as pricking briars and thorns as chasfe and stubble and all gathered as thick combustible matter to wound prick choke and smother to darken cloud vail and cover this noble Seed and Off-spring of Light by its own power it will arise out of it all and make it all manifest to their utter destruction as there is a waiting in it and so that appearance being felt and believed in the further manifestation of it will arise and so it will be known not onely to discover the darkness and deeds thereof and the opposition the Prince of darkness makes against the Light but set up his judging and condemning power and his full strength to cut off and destroy the Devil and all that stands in the way of his setting up of his Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace in the hearts of men And therefore doth he appear to sit as a refiner of silver and as with fullers sope to purifie and cleanse the hearts and consciences of all those that believe in him who is the Light of the world which in the fallen state and the unbelieving state are defiled by sin and rebellion against the Lord in which state all men are in let their Profession be what it will till they come to believe in the Light the Seed of the everlasting Covenant freely given unto man for him to be guided by it alone which whosoever comes to believe in they receive the power and vertue of it and so are acquainted with its operation and the nobleness of its strength life dominion and authority which gives victory over the power of darkness but this glorious victory of the Lamb's power who is the Covenant of Light Truth and Seed which serves the Lord none can understand nor witness while they stand in the disobedience to the Light which shines in the darkness which comprehends it not Therefore if men would understand the manifestation of this noble Seed which is the glory of the whole Creation of God for from that holy Womb where it rests and from whence it came was the pure Creation brought forth which was before corruption was and therefore all the whole Creation must be subject unto it and its pure power and must believe in the least appearance of it now in its restauration of all things as they were in the beginning Therefore there is an absolute necessity of believing in the measure of Light manifested from God in the heart and conscience though they be dark and covered with the shadow of death this Light doth shine upon them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death And it is for this end that they upon and in whom it shines may turn to the Light that by it they may be turned from the darkness and death and so might not abide in death and darkness but might receive the light of Life and so come to be acquainted with its power and vertue that in the Light and Life they may walk abide and dwell and so no more to be of the night of thick darkness but of the pure sun-shine of the clear day by which they come to be known to be the children of the day redeemed by him who is Light unto him all power is given both in heaven and in earth to redeem from the dark state which the whole world lie in that do not nor will not believe in the Light of Christ in their hearts freely given from the Father of Lights which is their condemnation which in its day and time hath shined upon them but they still rejecting of it this Light comes to be put out as to them though never can be as in it self but it shines alwayes bright and clear and to such in whom it is put out it will be known to be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God who is a consuming fire and everlasting burnings to all that wilfully disobey and reject the Light which shined in them which is a manifestation of the glorious Gospel of the blessed God whose sound is gone forth over all the earth and his word unto the end of the world And if this Gospel be hid