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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	heart_n	word_n	1,814	5	3.8480	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54057	Some observations, upon that portion of scripture, Romans 14.20 For the service of such in this present age, whose eyes, and hearts the Lord shall please to open to see and consider the weight of the truth thereof. With some few weighty words of advice to several sorts of people, according to their different states. By Isaac Penington.	Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679.	1662 (1662)	Wing P1196; ESTC R218756	4,895	16

SOME Observations Upon that Portion of Scripture ROMANS 14. 20. For the service of such in this present Age whose eyes and hearts the Lord shall please to open to see and consider the weight of the Truth thereof With some few weighty words of Advice to several sorts of People according to their different States By ISAAC PENINGTON London Printed for Robert Wilson 1662. Some Observations upon that Portion of Scripture Rom. 14. 20. For the service of such in this present Age whose eyes and hearts the Lord shall please to open to see and consider the weight of the Truth thereof Romans 14. 20. For Meat destroy not the Work of God Observ 1. GOd hath a Work in some mens hearts The mighty God who made Heaven and Earth and whose eyes run to and fro through both he by the finger of his pure Power toucheth some of the hearts of the Children of men and in the pure Demonstration of his living Spirit is found working there Religion true Religion is not a matter of opinion as men who have not tasted of the Power are apt to imagine but a New-Creation and Work of God in the heart of the creature sowing the Light and Life of his Spirit there and by it working man out of the darkness and Death of Sin which is the destruction and misery of the Soul into his Life and Blessedness Observ 2. That this Work of God in man is lyable to be destroyed God could so have made man as that he could not have fell he could so have comprehended mans spirit in the pure Power of his Life as that man could not have broke out of it But it pleased him to make him under a Law wherein waiting upon and watching to the Power of Life he might be preserved and remain happy but departing from it he should lose his state and sink into misery God could also so redeem man as that no Power should stop or interrupt his Work but it pleaseth him also to hold forth a Law of Redemption according to which his Work of Redemption may either go forward or backward As man is drawn by the Spirit of God and followeth his leadings out of the corruption out of the vanity out of the earthly Nature out of the wisdom reasonings and spirit of this world so the work goeth forward As man is tempted hearkeneth unto and is drawn back from the leadings of Gods Spirit by any of these so the work goeth backward and degrees of destruction overtake and come upon the Work of God in that heart Observ 3. A little thing will destroy the Work of God in the heart A matter of meat eating but a little meat doubtingly out of the Faith wherein is the preservation from the destruction this leads into the Sin where death and destruction is still met with For in the Path of Life in the Faith in the Obedience to Gods Spirit there alone is the preservation of the Work of God but in the unbelief in the disobedience in the doubting though about never so small a matter there is death and destruction met with if the Person venture upon that which it doubteth of Those who have travelled in the path of Life I know can witness this O how small a thing brings a vail over the Life What a little giving way to the reasonings of the earthly spirit about a small matter drives back the Work of God in the heart and brings anguish and misery upon the Soul causing the hiding of the Light of God's Countenance which is the Life and Joy of the renewed Spirit God is a great King and all his Leadings and Teachings are weighty and he that rebelleth or neglecteth in the least thing must bear his burthen unless he feel the Humiliation of his Soul and the Remission from the Spirit of the Lord the Grace of God pittying him and the blood of his Son washing him Observ 4. No man should do that which tendeth to destroy the Work of God in himself or the Work of God in another There is no such thing allowable by God for any man to do whether in Publick Government or in any kind of Commerce or Conversation amongst men or in ones private course of walking which tendeth to destroy the Work of God The intent of Government either in Church or State was never to destroy the Work of God in any man Government is of God both in Church and State but that way of Government which destroyeth his work in any is not of him but contrary to him and against him O that men could consider and had the ballance of Truth to weigh things in that they might bow before the God of Truth and not strive with their Maker about his Work in the World My Soul hath mourned I may say almost from my Cradle about the estate of this Creation To behold man fallen from his Glory departed from his God living without the sence of him and sowing the Seeds of Eternal Misery for his poor Soul which he must as certainly reap as he hath sown unless he travel the path of Redemption in the powerful leadings and guidance of God's Holy Spirit This hath so broken my Heart together with the close exercises which have continually attended this poor wearied Spirit that I have often wondered how the natural Life could be contained in the natural vessel I am a lover of mankind in general and have been a deep sufferer with and traveller for all the miserable None knows the path of my Sorrows or the extent of my Bowels but he that made me It is not natural or kindly to me to upbraid any man with any kind of wickedness or never so justly deserved misery but my Bowels work concerning him towards the Spring of Eternal Power and Compassions even as I would be pittied and represented to the Father of Mercies in the like Condition Indeed I have been emptied from Vessel to Vessel and tossed with multitudes of storms and tempests yet the savour of my life remaineth with me to this day and the Spirit of my God breatheth on my heart Blessed be his Holy Name for ever And though I walk with one sort of People because my heart saith yea the Spirit of the Eternal God hath witnessed unto me and shewn me in that Light which cannot deceive and to that eye which cannot be deceived that they are the People whom he hath chosen out of all the gatherings throughout the Earth from the Apostacy to manifest his Power in and his presence among I say though I have been guided and led by the Spirit of the Lord to walk among these yet am I not bounded there either in the love or in the unity of my heart But I have unity with the Integrity and Zeal for God which is in others of what sort or gathering soever and I have tender Bowels for all even for those which hate and Persecute that which is my life and hath the love of my