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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	body_n	spirit_n	worship_v	2,550	5	9.5500	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89849	A salutation to the seed of God. And a call out of Babylon, and Egypt, from amongst the magitians, where the house of bondage is, and the imaginations rules above the seed of God, the cause of all blindnes, and condemnation. Also that which is perfect made manifest, even everlasting righteousnesse, which endures for all generations, ... With the way to him, set forth most for such as groan for freedome from the power of sin; but may be serviceable to all who loves his appearance. Also a testimony from Christ what he is in this world, and where he is; ... Also a suite to such rulers, magistrates, and governours, as have not wholly hardened their hearts, and stopt the eare against the voyce of the spirit, that they may hear and their soules may live, and be established a blessing to the nations. With some things more added to this second impression. / Written in love to all your soules, by him who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N310; Thomason E852_25	31,397	40

come to see the power that sin hath not over you and that you are wholly polluted and sold under it then will you see the great transgression and the feare of God will appeare in you and so your hearts will grow tender in his feare which is but the beginnings of the knowledge of God and his wisdome And so waiting in the light you will come to see openings and breathings after Christ Jesus in which abiding and waiting low in the feare you will come to see some openings and promises of the Fathers Love to that seed which is breathing in you after him and some hopes of pardon of sin in Christ Jesus and so come to see the Law and the Prophets prophesying which condition many have come to and then have lost their condition by the mindes getting out of the feare and flesh exalting into the promise and so come to get the wound heald before death be flaine and so loses that little communion they had with God afarr off but never come so far as to the washing throughly nor to the marriage but the light minde gets into this and tattles it out to others and calls it experience yet never came so far as to see Christ and the Father yet after these doth the world wonder notwithstanding they live in the same filthiness as they did formerly yet say they I have assurance so many years since and the promise of God is sure and his Covenant cannot be broken but cannot see that the condition is lost and the seed is buryed under the earthly pleasures to which the promise was for the promise is to the seed which is one not to seedes which is many Gal. 3. 16. not to the fleshly man which is now got up but to the spirituall seed which is meek and lowly which God teacheth and blesseth and the creature that turnes to it is blessed because of that meek Spirit into which they are turned and should be for ever if in it they did continue for to it is the Covenant which cannot be broken therefore all that depart out of it it will not follow for then should not the Covenant stand sure in that seed which is but one one heart one minde one soule one spirit and whosoever receives this unity of faith shall finde this Covenant sure but this was never placed in the worldly seede but in the spirituall so the carnall is death and hell that 's its covnant but the spirituall is life and peace that 's its Covenant and each Covenant stands sure to them who are in them So that creature who was sometimes tender and lowly minded and that seed awakened to which is the promise not waiting in the promise till it be performed the creature turnes into the world where the curse is and there inherits yet is the Covenant sure to the seed and all that abide in it and this all witness who have waited in their measure though he that turnes from it is damned And if you abide faithfull in the light waiting you will be so far from turning into the liberty of the flesh that you will see every vaine thought and Imagination judged in the first motion and the ground of all sin you will see layd open and so come to see the Axe layd to the roote of the corrupt tree that hath brought forth the evill fruite which is Johns Ministery and the Baptisme of Repentance and so be led on to him who fulfills all righteonsness and that kingdome you will heare preach't at hand which consists not in words but in power then vaine babblers you will come to see and avoide and be brought onely to presse after Righteousnesse and so see your light grow and spring up to the burning and shining till the day-starre arise in your hearts then will you cease to put God and Christ afarre off you and waite to see Christ in you the hope of Glory and so come to see Christ in you the light the way the truth and the life and not to have your light and life to seeke in a booke without you nor from men but Christ your life in you made manifest in your mortall bodies and so coming to the Son and to see him revealed by him come to have the Father revealed also and so come to the knowledge of God which is life eternall even God in his Temple where hee is worshipped in Spirit and truth and this truth in you and this God in you then shall you know that your bodies are the Temples of the living God as hee hath sayd I will dwell in them and walke in them 2 Cor. 6 16. And that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3. 16. By which Spirit he is worshipped and by the same Spirit you are taught and this is not knowne by heare-say nor got by imitation nor taught in the imaginations but through death it is learned onely in those who in the light are guided and by the Spirit kept in the fire and in the water where death is slaine faith purifyed and the body cleansed and purged from its drosse and filthinesse patience given and proved and all the gifts and graces of God which vaine mindes talke on but know not but in words these to be waited for in the light received in the faith and proved in the patience to the bringing the Creature wholly to rely upon God in the worst condition even at their wits ends when all the world failes and becomes enemies then to fall into the defence of God alone or when the world tempts with the greatest pleasures then to deny all for the love of God this is soon talked on but none can have it but who have received it in the same way of obedience that Christ hath gon before and leades in Spirit and power all his after him who beleeve in his light and follow it Then may you say follow us as wee follow Christ and walke as you have us for examples till then you are but imitators and out of the life and power and so lead one another into formes and traditions but deny the power which should give you victory over sin in this world and so you get the Saints words but their lives you have not that you looke for in another world but in the meane time goeth on to fill up the measure of evill and so go to the grave in feare and torment And all those Calls and Reproofes of the Spirit of light in your owne hearts now by you slighted are by him recorded and remaines a testimony against you till that dreadfull appearance of the righteous Judge and heart-searcher shewing his love tendered and his desire to save from sin and condemnation which love being rejected there is no escaping condemnation And you that have form'd a Christ in your owne imaginations so as your pride lust ryot and oppression may be exalted and you in them and now your eyes are abroad expecting his comming without you

the fruite you bring forth because it is not in Jesus and hee in you in whom the Father hath placed fruite and acceptance peace and reconciliation to whom all shall confesse for ever And now to all honest hearts in whome there is a seed of God who are thus scattered in this body of confusion having lost the way of truth peace and righteousnesse so that you cannot come to that which makes perfect but are at a losse with all you can doe and are condemned with that in your conscience that you are not covered with the righteousnesse of God but are found naked and miserable I say that which condemnes you who are out of the way is the light that leades to the way for whatsoever makes manifest is light so that which makes manifest your darknesse is that light that shines in darknesse to lead out of darknesse that condemnes you while you are in it But that which cryes peace in darknes is the Prince of darknes to keepe in darknes That which condemnes the World is the light of the World given to lead out of the World all that beleeve and follow it and such are justified by the light that their deeds are wrought in God by him which light reproves the evill deeds not wrought by him I say this is the light of Christ given into the world that whosoever beleeves and followes shall not abide in darkness but have the light of life Now reade all the Scriptures and see if there be any other Covenant but this Covenant of light and this is the life which is the light of men which darkness comprehends not nor the world knowes not in which alone the power is placed which whoever receives becomes the Sons of God as the Father hath appointed which he will not alter the Covenant for all the world therefore all that are out of the light are out of the Covenant where God hath placed his power And if you would give your goods to the poor and your body to the fire it s to no purpose because you are out of this love of the Father Therefore all are first called to beleeve in the light ere they can be accepted for without faith its impossible to please God or be found in his worke or receive his power so all your labour brings not forth that which is accepted but with the light is condemned that it is not perfect and so you sit down in sorrow notwithstanding all your labours which are out of the light where God hath promised no peace nor power for God doth not manifest his workes in the darkness but in the light that all the Children of light may see and praise him who doth all for his own glory which the Children of darkness see not who are out of the light of Christ So such talke of what God hath done and what he will doe but know him not at present nor his power working all their works in them Therefore this I say to all who desire to know him that you stand still in the light of Jesus that you may come to see the life and its movings and the powers of death and its movings that you may see what spirit workes obedience and what spirit workes disobedience so shall you see what 's done in the body if the eye be single then is there no place for darkness but it is discovered So with the light you come to discerne each Spirit and each principle and their severall workings and that the one is the powers that workes in the light that workes to obedience the other is the powers that workes in darkness and workes to disobedience and as God hath appointed that the one shall not worke in darknes so the other shall not worke in the light for as he hath given to the Devill the powers of darkness to worke in the Children of darkness that they all may be damned who wil not receive the light so hath he reserved the light pure and therein placed his power that so none may faile who beleeve in it and here is the blessing and the cursing the Election and reprobation the light and the darkness both which the light discovers as it arises in all who in it beleeve and waite And if you abide in the light you will see none can curse what God hath blessed nor bless what he hath cursed for as the one of these leads to the life from whence it comes all that beleeve and follow it so the other downe to death all that abide in it for none in the light did ever perish nor out of it was ever saved whatever is their profession In the light is the power and the power in the light for this is one in Christ Jesus and in this light if you keepe waiting with it you shall see the motions of sin which are after the flesh working in you drawing your mindes after them to obey them and you shall see at the same time the motions of the Spirit in the meek principle drawing you to the contrary so that if you be not rash to follow the motions of the flesh but with the light take counsell you shall see every word and action discovered to you in the light of what sort they are of from what roote they arise and what they tend to and here you come to the knowledge of sin and who begets it in the Creature and the knowledge of Righteousness and who begets it in the creature and here in plainness you come to see your Father and whose Children you are even his whom you obey for if you bring forth the workes of the Devill which hee begets in you then are you his Children but if you deny the workes of the Devill and to bring them to light then God gives you power to bring so th what hee will beget in you in the light and men seeing that worke of God brought forth into the world thereby is God glorifyed and this is not a talking of God but a living to him in your measure and here shall you grow up in the obedience in the knowledge of Christ and learne him of God and the way to him so every one that hath learned of the Father commeth to mee John 6. 44. 45. And none can come to mee except my Father draw them so shall you see the Law written in your hearts which discovers lust and uncleanness even in your hearts in the first rise of it and you will come to see that this Law is pure and must be fulfilled every jot title else no passing when you see none can fulfill it in its righteousness purity then is way made for Christ and so the law is the Schoolmaster to lead to him where the righteousness is placed and power to fulfill it who is the end of it for righteousness to every one that beleeves And as your mindes are kept to this Law that God hath written to shew sin and evill you will