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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	affection_n	heart_n	love_n	1,789	5	5.2534	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52705	Milk for babes: and meat for strong men A feast of fat things; wine well refined on the lees. O come young men and maidens, old men and babes, and drink abundantly of the streams that run from the fountain, that you may feel a well-spring of living water in yourselves, springing up to eternal life; that as he lives (even Christ Jesus) from whence all the springs do come, so you may live also, and partake of his glory that is ascended at the right hand of the Father, far above principalities and powers. Being the breathings of the Spirit through his servant James Naylor, written by him in the time of the confinement of his outward man in prison, but not published till now.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Booth, Mary, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing N299; ESTC R202065	26,742	32

got power by letting some carnal thing in upon you to press you down which Spirit waits upon you continually to ensnare the Heavenly Life and get above it in your minds and so as a weight beset you in your way lest that which comes from Heaven should have free passage through a clear Vessel to Heavenly Seed free from cares cumbrances and earthly pleasures and from Earth to the Heavens for it 's he that comes from above which declareth to man his way and his wants presents his prayers and receives the answer and by him alone doth God work all his Works in you for you in Heaven and in Earth Now if you join to another and give your strength of heart and mind to his Enemy then the Work of God ceases the way being stopt for the Adulterer the Covetous the Idolater the Wanton the Sloath or what ever of that Nature you join to your consent giveth him strength to stop the Way of Life And this is your condemnation witnessed with the Light and herein had Death its power at the first which can be no Head but where he is hearkned to let in or obeyed but being resisted flyes but being let in he seateth himself in the Heavenly way with much policy and power and is not easily got out nor seen to be what he is so when you feel your way darkned or affections grow cold towards Heaven then take heed with all diligence in the pure Light to search for your Enemy hath got some entrance which by faithful and patient waiting in the Light you will come to see and through the power of the Cross to kill that life and cast out that in which it was conceived for that must not abide in the House with him that is Heir of the Heavenly Inheritance but is an Enemy to his coming for it is he that letteth till he be taken out of the way which while he is in the way dulls the affections and clogs the Heavenly mind that it cannot ascend wherefore that which you have received of the Holy One his Unction hold fast till he come and with it stand armed against whatever would enter to lead out to any outward observations but with all diligence observe that which you have of his in Spirit which the adversary seeks so much to draw you forth from least you should encrease your Lords money and herein you maintain your daily watch and war with that you have of Life and Power and not with that you have not so are you faithful Stewards and are accepted in what you have and not in what you have not for the World is in darkness and so wait for they know not what and have no ground for their Faith nor power to prepare his way to his coming further then words of others or their own conceivings but are not in him who is true but you are in him who is true who have his Light received and are in it to observe hhis appearance in all things and the Messenger of his Covenant you know who goeth before his face to prepare his way turning your hearts from every evil way and out of the paths of the destroyer that you may be fruitful upon earth that so he may receive you into himself vvhen he cometh to smite the Earth vvith a Curse which that which brings forth Bryars and Thorns is nigh unto whose Seed is not of himself his root and off-spring at his coming which is begot in the Adulterous mind For the mind feeding from without upon any knowledge form or observation but what the life leads to in Spirit and power is the ground of the mystery of iniquity the woman of Witch craft which hunteth for the precious life of the holy Child seeking to draw your strength of affections from him after the harlot that so he may fall die daily in your hearts and affections while the Lust goes out to another covered with some fair pretence whereby the worldly Spirit gathers strength daily as you shal feel who are watchful and diligent in the Spiritual War so shal that Truth appear to you That as your love waxeth cold so wil iniquity abound with an unresistable power whatever you know to the contrary which is not in the life Or whatever you believe without that faith which works by love to the life of Truth more then to the knowledge of Truth So let your wrestling be into the power and life of God and thereon feed and your life shal indure for ever and your strength and virtue shal be daily renewed But you read of some who had the form of Knowledge and of the Truth but being out of the life of Truth held the Truth in Unrighteousness and such when they knew God did not glorifie him as God in life So he gave them up who became vain in their imaginations who retained not the life in the knowledge turned the Truth of God into a Lie So that knowledge could not keep them from being filled vvith unrighteousness which stood not in the life and povver of righteousness and who received not that Truth in that Faith which loves to live the life of it Wherefore let your food be in the life of what you know and in the power of Obedience rejoice and not in what you know but cannot live for the Life is the Bread of your souls which crucifies the flesh and confounds that which runs before the Cross So let your labour and diligence be in that which presseth into the Heavenly Being and seeketh a Conformity to Christ in obedience of what you believe and hearken in love to that not in that mind which would save your own lives nor feed you where you are but in love to that which seperateth you from self-life and changeth you into his life whom you wait for from above so in receiving his commands in that which loves to be like him in life your Faith works by love and his Commands are joyous through love That Faith worketh obedience quickness and willingness it worketh out the old and worketh into the new and so through the hope of that which you love and obedience of Faith the entrance is made with the Life into the holy Kingdom and the Immortal Glory is put on which in the Light is seen and in the Life obtained as with the Word of Faith the separation is made and the Life that 's Mortal put off whose Life is without the Vail and is for death with that Life who makes the entrance through his Blood and through his Flesh a living Way a Way of Life a new Way to all who are seeking the Door in old Ordinances and Traditions and outward Observations feeding their minds with thinking or talking of what others did long since or what may be done in times to come and so are in Times but out of that Life which endures for ever and onely hath the promise of the Father and Power to make the

hunt about for freedom yet if any Carnal Way be opened it will form a fair pretence as though it were of God which is not of God and this seeks to betray the just faithful one from you would part you from your chast waiting upon him whom you love taking his advantage by your hast weariness weakness in the journey But that which only minds to be obedient to God in suffering and acting with faith and diligence nearkning with all Long-suffering what Meekness and Patience saith thinking it a greater thing to obtain Counsel from that then ease from another believing that no other thing can give an expected end but that to wit an inheritance in that you wait for and therefore count nothing dear that you may win him thinking no time long nor any thing hard to endure for the joy and beauty that is set before you This wil never deceive you of the Redemption of Truth your Love and Redeemer and Lord is One and you shal not be put to your sleighty shifts as they that go out from that Spirit are for you shal feel and see your Redeemer in the misst of you and with his body shal you rise and live and you shal not be ransomed with silver or gold from the hand of the Opressor but by the pretious blood of Christ as a Lamb without spot not with any corruptible thing but his Long-suffering Faith and Patience his Love and meek Spirit shal set you out of all darkness and above all fears and your freedom wil be perfect and inheritance large when all that would not stay upon him alone are consumedin the fiery tryals which haste ease and distrust wil never bring to an end til which you are not fit to be joined to him you love in everliving obedience and everlasting praises the portion of all who have waited on him and have found him faithful in the End And having Learned this mystery of Godliness and found the worth of it you having found his way perfect and pure and him faithful to such as walk therein you may be able to direct the simple and unlearned in their desirable way to rest and your words have in them a manifestation of life and quickning power is with you this shal be your everlasting strength that you are redeemed with that you so dearly loved And this you shal feel in the way that the more diligently you wait upon him in all Conditions you pass through even so the more do you receive of him by drinking in of that heavenly virtue that is in him who is the meek and patient one and by supping continually with him and he with you wil you come so to be filled with him that all haste and impatiency and distrust will be covered and overcome with him and so your Mortal be swallowed up of the Immortal till it become your whole Life and Being and all your Thoughts Words and Actions have their Rise and Being therein so that Self be seen no more nor that appear in which Death and Condemnation have any entrance or power And this shall you find to be the House from Above and Heavenly City in which the holy Spirits live and walk and have Communion as they come to be perfected of which the LAMB is the Light and Salvation into which none enter but who through his Meekness and Long-suffering are ransomed and by Faith therein redeemed Who being thus builded see no more sorrow nor fear of falling the Foundation being everlasting elect and precious and every Stone therein tryed in the fire and in faithfulness chosen for that end So with all diligence sink down to feel the Election not minding that which boasts in high words before it be tryed but when it comes into the fire will not stand patient in the Tryal but through that being given up to death seek for that which lies under in the sufferings which calls you down from every high thought To him come down into the pit who bears all things without complaining that with him you may suffer and with him you may obey and in all things he may be with you and you with him this is the Election make him sure to your selves in life and death so shall you be changed with him and though you go down into the lower parts of the Earth in the carnal body he shall raise you spiritual though sown weak yet raised in Power if you rise not but with him as he raises you if you cast not off the Yoak nor flye the Cross nor heal your own wound though your wound be mortal yet the cure is immortal though you go down in shame and reproach yet raised in glory and covered with immortal honour and eternal life with power and strength to fulfil the will of God and the answer of a good Conscience through this Baptism and Resurraction you shall attain and so become one Spirit with him that dwells in the light in death in sufferings in patience in faith and in obedience which otherwise no mortal man can approach to there being that to be fulfilled which the Light requires which the first man born hath not in power so by that Law his life he must lose which hath power over the Transgressor as long as he lives and joined to Christ cannot be till to that Law he be dead So the first which is earthly the Law kills because of sin and want of obedience but he that is born again is of the Spirit and lives because of righteousness and obedience so the boaster is excluded being concluded under sin that the mercy may arise in the meek principle over all to fulfil all The Light saith Love thy Neighbour as thy self This the first born cannot do so the boaster is excluded and the Law lays hold on that life which wants this love and the Creature must give up that to death that he may come to the meek Spirit for the power of that life and obedience that hath righteousness in it and the Creature drawing his mind and affections and faith ●rom the first who hath words without power and giving these to the second the first falls withers and dies in that vessel and as the mind is diligent in the second he rises in the Faith and raiseth the power of obedience in that vessel and so as he rises through the Law he brings forth fruits above the Law against which there is no Law so he in whom the Covenant is and hath the power of obedience to righteousness puts an end to the Law So he being denied dead and buried whose life arose through disobedience who is the Transgressor and because of whom the Law was added that Law becomes dead also he that fulfils the Law is he that gave it forth and is the end thereof in whom by Faith you live and inherit this right eousness as you put him on through death who is this life So being faithful in the Light shal

minds to dwell in and take up its rest which hath been tost to and fro as in a Wilderness and by killing in the Watch all that would draw you out and sinking down into this meekness and stedfast lowliness you will come to feel the Plant of God that brings forth this meekness and holiness and springs of living virtue and there will you meet the Lord in his Kingdom on Earth where he delights to walk as in a Garden for in these things he delights and in such as delight therein and there wait to feel his fellowship and receive his Counsel in purity and coolness in which he will let you see whatever it be that would break his Covenant with you and whatever leadeth out from the Eternal Life and will with his Spirit lead you out to war against it in vvhich Spiritual War being faithful you shall not fail of Victory till every cumbrance in your minds be cast out and so heavenliness become a quiet habitation that in the meek spirit you may feed upon the heavenly food and not to have that ravenous earthly spirit to steal and devour it from the soul And as you get an entrance into this heavenly Mansion so diligently watch and in the Light stand armed against the Thief and keep out whatever would enter into your affections or desires under what pretence soever for if it enter into your affections it will steal away your minds from this pure innocent Plant and this is Adultery Treachery and Whoredom which you must wrestle against in the power of his love And with willingness of mind to put off all the old Idols out of your affections what ever hath any place there for by the entrance of that through lust hath the Son of Righteousness suffered and the Innocent been slain and until that be condemned and cast out which hath come over the Just in your affections the Son of Righteousness arises not into his Kingdom who must fulfil all righteousness before the entrance be made Which Work you stop whilst you retain the unrighteous having a Seat in your heart uncondemned and cast out and hence it is that many seek to enter but are not able the cursed thing not being cast out which can have no place in Gods Kingdom with which the just hath not communion nor the Temple of God with Idols And this I say to you which is a learned Truth in this Journey That if you either retain your old Lovers or suffer any thing now to enter your affections or draw out your minds from this pure Plant of Righteousness and Truth you shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven for this is the Way and must make your entrance therefore fight against whatever would draw you from it and with violence break through it and take the Kingdom for onely he that hath been faithful in the Baptism of John to fulfil all righteousness shall receive power to press into the Kingdom and when you come here you will find violent Powers to keep you out which with the Lamb in War must be overcome violently for the strong man having got a possession within is not easily bound and cast out for it is a spiritual wickedness and in heavenly places with which you are to wrestle therefore a Heavenly Virtue contrary thereto and of a greater Power must give you you Victory So press into the Heavenly Spirit with its power to overcome the Earthly Spirit with its powers strive earnestly in the meeke spirit to obtain a measure of Faith and Patience larger then the Temptation and that will endure to the end of it a Meekness and Love to cover all strife and wrath a Long-suffering to famish all hast and that which seeks its own ease and so in all things with desire drinking in of the Heavenly Virtue from above whereby you may become strengthned with all might to stand all assaults of the Enemy within or without and so in the cross come to put on every measure Christ Jesus the great Power of God unto Salvation and Well-springs of Eternal Life and Glory which is done by sinking down into the Heavenly feeling contrary to the Will of the exalted Life whereby you will be overshadowed from above from whence the Saviour is looked for to overcome things below And as you come into the feeling of these Virtues hold them fast till he come who is the fulness and with that you have wrestle against what ever would draw out your minds from it for with that of him must you make War against whatever is contrary thereto and as you are faithful to abide therein you wil feel every high thing fall before you for that which cleanseth the Vessel of all corruptible things is your Weapon and that which springs up in a contrary nature is your life The beholding whereof as it riseth and keeping your eye constant in the Faith and Hope of attaining to his fulness will make your Work the Work of Love your obedience delightful and all your sufferings easie and your loss of your former glory will in that eye appear great gain and this is your acceptable service and that Faith which vvorks by Love vvhich avails much vvith God and being follovved overcomes the World and sets free from it in all things So vvith the Light mind to be led dovvn into that Life that is not of this World come to him that seeks not himself vvho hath not his rest in things on earth vvho is rejected of men denyed of his ovvn kindred and forsaken of all and as you come to him you vvil come to be proved vvhether you can forgo all these for him alone and that he may make his appearance in you and cover you vvith himself his contempt and reproach and his patient povver to bear all for it 's he that can bear all things that shall never be moved and he that thus overcomes shall know the white stone and that Rock which breaks the Nations but builds the House of God But in all your Journey take heed of the Adulterous mind for it secretly devoureth the precious Life Wherefore take heed of that which looketh out give not way to that eye not for a moment for if you consent to it upon any pretence whatsoever you enter into a Covenant therewith against the holy Seed to destroy the chast mind but whether it be rough or smooth yet hold it as an Enemy and that which if it get in by consent must out by suffering double to the delight it brings with it but if as an Enemy you withstand it by constant and patient resistings it will flye and grow weaker upon every assault and he that giveth you victory will grow more in your esteem and delight Wherefore think it not strange so long as any of the old leaven is within unpurged out That the nearer you draw to God in the lowly-suffering-meekness the deeper you sink into tribulation and your suffering encrease upon

entrance to him from whom all the World are driven who are in the Lust and in that Nature which loves it self and worketh iniquity yet wearying themselves to find the Door without the Light of that Life which is not of this World And as you mind onely to feed on the Plant of Life you will come to know the Work of the Father in his Vineyard and who the faithful Labourer is and what must be his Work and the sloathful servant and what his Work bringeth forth and the cause why the field of the sluggard is over-grown with evil fruits and why his Vine bringeth not Fruit to perfection For you will find many Plants besides the Tree of Life all which seek to be fed and strengthened in the mind and affections and many grown Trees tall and strong which have got fast rooting spread and bring forth abundantly after their several kinds and all these present themselves to the eye of the mind to be fed from thence which is as the feet fetching food from far without which they cannot live long but must pine away and fall as they dye in the affections and as the mind is withdrawn from such objects as they are fed withall So the Work of him that is faithful is to number these to the Axe and to the fire and not to suffer these any place in the mind how strongly soever they tempt and try every way to spread Root to keep life that so through the death of these the Vine may grow alone in the clean affections and holy mind and honest chaste heart which is the good ground and where the pure Plant will bring forth of it self in all where it is not cumbred with that which is contrary to it Which contrary fruits all that mind the Light may see but the sluggard not being diligent to dig up the Root as well as to condemn the Fruit therefore they are daily growing and the good ground ever cumbred with them and such ever know what they should do but are never able to abide there their life being lost in the midst of this Wilderness and over-grown with wild Plants But you being diligent in your Watch you will see that the cause of all your troubles and confusion when you come to the true labour indeed is not for nothing for you will find many plants of several kinds for the World is in the heart of man as he is droven from God And every kind hath its several life which lives have their several feedings all which you may feel in the Light by their temptings to lead out your minds and though they are of several motions and live upon several objects yet the least of them being fed by consent in your mind will over-run the Vine and in time bury it by growing up in your affections Wherefore all must down that Truth alone may rise in your affections and the Word of Life have place in your hearts who is purer then to dwell in the Adulterous minde and whose eye cannot behold iniquity who hath no communion with darkness nor fellowship where any Idol stands in the Temple So this is your faith in your labour even that which overcomes the World and suffereth nothing thereof to take place in your minds but with the Spirit of Life to watch and wrestle against every lust and kill every affection that would go out for food for what-ever goes out betrayes the innocent and every pleasure of the flesh as a Canker doth eat out the Life of the holy and just one but by Faith the Just lives and in faithfulness doth he judge and make War against all his Enemies in every one who are exercised therewith And in this Work mind what you follow follow nothing rashly but prove all things with the fire and that which will not endure the Temptation and bear the Cross is the Adulterer who will look out every way for ease and the Serpent wil present many likely wayes to her under fair pretences which she that would live at ease will hastily hearken to and if you hearken to her you will betray the Work of Life which is bringing forth in hard travel and labour which is flain in the birth where ease and sloath is consented to and with living at ease and pleasure hath the Life been slain from the beginning of the world and hath been kept under by her Sorceries who fares deliciously upon Earth and by consenting to her pleasures hath the Election been lost and covered with the Seed of Wickedness which God hates which Wars after the flesh and lusts after the flesh to strengthen it self above the holy spiritual Seed but minding to make that sure to you which calls in your mind and being obedient thereto it will lead down by the Power of the Cross through that which is above to the feeling of the Election and a separation being made betwixt that which God chuseth in this Working-Power and what he condemneth you will come thereby to know to what to join and from what to withdraw that you may be Workers together with him and not against him which the subtile one will lead you to do till with the Light the separation be made and so joining to it in faith and obedience the Election will arise and by diligence thereto it will be made sure And once feeling the Innocent to move under the Oppressor give your selves no rest until the strong man bow for with great Plagues upon that Nature and with a strong hand against that will must the Seed of Promise be redeemed from under his Power which like Pharoah if he get but rest will not let Israel go from under his Power and if you keep with the Spirit and hearken low it will let you see what must be the Plagues you must pour upon him till he be brought dovvn that a little Child may lead him and reign over him and he that was oppressed by the Beast may ride upon him And as that Nature got head and strength by having its Lusts fulfilled so it must be subdued by having its Lusts famished which if you be not faithful to the seed of God herein you sell your Birth-right and betray your own redemption and are found deceitful Workers against God and your own Souls Wherefore run not with that which is in hast but lye down in that which is meek lovvly and patient that vvhich is vvilling to vvait the Fathers time and seeks to obtain by the obedience of Faith and not in the Will that vvould have in its ovvn hand For a Nature there is vvhich runs out for help and raveneth abroad to be satisfied vvhich God vvill famish And this vvill seek to lead the mind if it be follovved and vvill hunt about and murmure if it be not satisfied This goeth about the Citie but entereth not and this must suffer hunger and feel the Lambs wrath and plagues upon the head thereof what vvay soever it turns till it bovv and